• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    2 days ago

    I don’t know why they can’t just say “sorry visa are a bunch of prudes so you can’t buy this game with that card”. Rather than the entire site completely

    • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      Probably a contract clause somewhere that forces them to make that payment method equally available to other payment methods.

    • x00z@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Would be good to have continuous reminders about what kind of assholes these payment processors are.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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      1 day ago

      Not sure how viable is that, card payment is very monopolised system, and those few get a say on what to do.

      Though i guess steam can bypass it by having people reload their steam wallet then buy using that.

    • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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      Merchants need payment processors to make money, and losing one makes a big dent in the sales. I won’t get a Mastercard because Visa isn’t accepted anymore.

      If they say that X processor is a dick and lose them, they are worst for it.