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[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (21 children)

Petitions like this are meaningless unless they come with a viable solution to the duopoly in payment processing that is Visa and Mastercard.

It doesn't matter what Valve agrees with, if they want to survive as a business they have to ultimately do what the only 2 companies that handle the payment processing tells them to do.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Valve is a big enough company that they could conceivably start their own payment provider to bypass this.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Come on, Gabe. You know you wanna.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You do know what happens to Valve Time any time someone tells Gabe to hurry up, right?

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