Anyone following the drama with Steam and the credit card companies trying to censor games?

[qw90700]

we are violent sexual creatures and we should embrace it in it's entirety instead of suppressing it like god and nature intended

lolol

 

[bjork]

Lets hope its a temporary thing. As it has been proven in this thread, there are a lot of religious nuts in this world that have no problem on imposing their morality on other people. And yet they are the first to complain whenever the government imposes rules that go against their religion. They don't see the hypocrisy of their beliefs because they are lost in the sauce of fanaticism.

Again, look at the history of outrage in games. Look at stuff like Satanic Panic in the 80s. These things generally are temporary. The outrage stays until they coverage goes away, then it boils down to companies wanting to hit those fiscal numbers and that's what always wins. If the boss of Stripe suddenly missed a bonus because of this and can't buy a new boat because of these shout people, he probably has an assassin on retainer. You know?

Mind you, a world does not exist where I'd pay $199 to buy ass sniffing simulator or whatever, but they should be able to shoot their shot. No pun intended.

 

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Again, look at the history of outrage in games. Look at stuff like Satanic Panic in the 80s. These things generally are temporary. The outrage stays until they coverage goes away, then it boils down to companies wanting to hit those fiscal numbers and that's what always wins. If the boss of Stripe suddenly missed a bonus because of this and can't buy a new boat because of these shout people, he probably has an assassin on retainer. You know?

Mind you, a world does not exist where I'd pay $199 to buy ass sniffing simulator or whatever, but they should be able to shoot their shot. No pun intended.

I only care about the chilling effect it might have on the industry. I also don't want the industry to be afraid of tackling adult subjects or making games for adults because payment processors might block their payments out of nowhere. As an adult who games, I want to see more games for older folks and not every game be infantile. But if you add subject matter that might piss off one of these morality groups and a rogue payment processor might cut off your payments with no oversight or way to fight back, it is a really ugly precedent to set.