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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

Yeah I hope you gents have been stockpiling animu and videogames like crazy, we are entering a very dark and dystopian era soon.

This post has been edited by icontributenothing: Aug 1 2025, 07:12

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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).

The problem is that it will not stop at only 'NSFW' games. Any games that they deem unacceptable, they can brew any reasons to remove it from steam, itch.io or any other platforms they like just by pressuring them. If they don't want to remove the games, they will stop the transaction, and suddenly, there will be financial nightmare.

you can say fo to steam like a chad and use.....
maybe build your own platform
nah i'm kidding lol.

The backlash against this has been massive, even Trump, whatever you might think of him, has already acted against it in a way. Payment processing should be seen as and regulated as a public utility. Visa and Mastercard are allowed to essentially hold monopolies, and bad actors are attempting to weaponize that to get their way when it comes to censorship. The surprising thing is that the group which made this happen was small, they sent like 1000 emails and made a bunch of phone calls and it worked. But now Visa and MC are getting hundreds of thousands of emails and calls, and the federal government has an eye on it now.

The job of payment processors is to facilitate the transfer of funds for legitimate transactions while protecting against illegal transactions. Policing content on a platform that in no way violates any law is not something they should be doing. The government needs to deal with this decisively - they decimated Microsoft because, *gasp*, Windows came with a browser installed. Visa and MC should be on the chopping block if they refuse to comply with transactional freedom.

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you can say fo to steam like a chad and use.....
maybe build your own platform
nah i'm kidding lol.

My platform is called fitgirls. Uncracked games that use shit DRM don't deserve your money. Only buy for multiplayer feature or to support companies that you stand behind.

Yeah I hope you gents have been stockpiling animu and videogames like crazy, we are entering a very dark and dystopian era soon.

Soon? We've already been descending into it ever since war against terrorism. New draconian laws keep getting passed every year and no one even complained.

I like NSFW games alot BTW.

Luckily it looks like being vocal worked

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?

you are right It never was about brand safety, it's about control.

Asmongold did a video on the dev for the political game 'Take Us North' which is a pro-illegal migration game.

People then investigated Karla Reyes and found she was connected to the UN, the WEF, Gates, former politicians and political groups in the US, UK and Canada, SBI and she has stated how much she is working with VISA and Mastercard.... So probably involved with the current steam and itch.io mess.

She deleted a mass of her socials when one person asked what she was doing with VISA and Mastercard.

Her game has sold 500 copies, but she has received millions in funding, as a DEI trainer, activist, networker and accelerator...

People then investigated Karla Reyes and found she was connected to the UN, the WEF, Gates, former politicians and political groups in the US, UK and Canada, SBI and she has stated how much she is working with VISA and Mastercard.... So probably involved with the current steam and itch.io mess.

I can't wish these people death and eternal suffering in hell soon enough. They really got the infinite money hack unlocked eh

I can't wish these people death and eternal suffering in hell soon enough. They really got the infinite money hack unlocked eh

The scale of the grift is astronomical, they get tax payer funds in the US (USAID), Canada, Australia, UK, and EU. They also get money from blackrock and other groups pushing DEI. Their actual gaming output is minimal, and politics, lobbying and activism is their main output.


To get an idea of the scale of the grift here is the who's who of the gifters:


[festival.gamesforchange.org] https://festival.gamesforchange.org/speakers


So out of the supposed developers for change, out of 100, I barely found three that were real games devs. Only a fraction are supposed Devs with a small indie game in development (usually for millions of grants). There are some students. There are a bunch that sound like a dev, but they are the cultural consultant class, or accelerator, or activist educator. Then you have all the NGO representatives. Most of the people that I found that were actual devs produced low quality education games and smart phone apps. Then there are some that have generated AI turd output for millions in taxpayer funds.

Its pure insanity. The closest to to a real game dev I found was a dude that worked on Myst... and then became a consultant.


The point? There are billions going into non-productive political activists. Operation chokepoint and chokepoint 2.0 was the use of banking to use that influence to crush political opponents by shutting down their access to payment processors and banks.

VISA and Mastercard gave money to many of these activists infiltrators, and then supposedly was 'forced' by them to debank steam and itch.io. During chokepoint 1.0 and 2.0, VISA and Mastercard debanked political entities at the request of the Obama and Biden admin many times.


These people are mad at steam for having a review system, and also not pushing their nonsense fake games.