Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam

Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam | PC Gamer

It's not a great precedent, that's for sure.

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Steam quietly pulled a raft of adult-only titles from its storefront after Visa and Mastercard told Valve those games might run afoul of their content rules. In a statement, Valve confirmed it “retired” the flagged games and is offering affected developers app credits to publish other titles—just as long as they get the financial gatekeepers’ stamp of approval.

It’s an uneasy reminder that even the world’s biggest gaming marketplace dances to the tune of credit-card networks, setting a worrisome precedent for what counts as acceptable content.