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Apparently Visa and Mastercard managed to get first Steam and then Itch io to remove NSFW games in general from those platforms. Is there an alternative to avoid that or will these kinds of censor practices become more common?

Best bet is speaking to your local representative to try bring it up in parliament/congress/whatever and pass a law stopping it

[www.change.org] Make Steam accept Monero (XMR)

This is the sort of thing that will make crypto mass adoption happen. A big platform needs to add support for transactionally useful cryptos like BCH, LTC, XMR, and have their millions of users start to use crypto so they can route around the Mastercard / Visa / Paypal oligopoly. Once you have that critical mass of users, it will look increasingly good to other businesses.

Piss off 132 million gamers and see what happens.

It's crazy seeing an actual use case for crypto, I hope this doesn't become a trend because crypto is inherently a terrible monetary system.

Other countries need take a stance alongside Japan saying "you can't do that shit here, you're a foreign company, you don't get to say what our companies do." Payment processors would rather do business in those countries, and will knock it off, especially if a business ban looms. At worst, this would mean they only sway censorship power in America. Which sucks for them, but the rest of the world has one less group of assholes controlling them.

I don't want credit card companies to be the judges on what is allowed to be sold, but honestly the spam of (largely AI slop) porn "games" on Steam has gotten super obnoxious.

I've always preferred to get eroge from other places anyway like mangagamer, jast or GOG but either way 99% of Steam's library of "18+ games" is absolute garbage. They're not real games. They're chatGPT "dialogue" slapped together with either shitty 3D renders using stock models or more recently AI hentai. Sold entirely on their title and a few screenshots.

I like "real" porn games like what Alicesoft and all these other reputable Japanese companies have been putting out for decades, but if I enable NSFW games on my Steam account my recommendations and the front page just get littered with this absolute shit. I do not mind at all if Steam is removing them, and didn't spot a single "real" game I could recognize by name in the ones removed (so far).

Change.org is not even able to fulfill the requests addressed to themselves. Disappointing site IMHO