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

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

"We were recently notified that certain games on Steam may violate the rules and standards set forth by our payment processors and their related card networks and banks," said Valve. It seems quite clear to me from those kinds of statements that Valve's chafing a little under payment processor tyranny, but I suspect even Steam can't really go toe-to-toe with the likes of Visa and Mastercard. Not only is it a magnet for scams and chargebacks, but they're still reeling from the time a few years ago when popular adult site PornHub was found to be hosting content featuring underage and non-consenting performers(processors severed their links to the company, which continues to this day).

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