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Alles rund um unser aller liebstes Digitalhobby, unabhängig von Plattform und Genre.
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That requires more than just dropping a card. Especially when dealing with game libraries, platform availability is a pretty big deal for some people. And the net effect of just ignoring this situation and buying elsewhere, is that legitimate speech, and all games devs involved, are being extremely impacted. There's no way devs will be getting the same sales elsewhere as they are on Steam, so if this persists there will be financial pressure against devs of 'objectionable' games. And then we're back to the same situation where a fringe Australian group has decided what morals to hold to for the entire world.
Has Discover ever been powerful enough to bully JCB or UnionPay into bullying Japanese or Chinese game developers?
I don't think so. I don't think it's even possible if I'm reading about this alliance system.
Mastercard/Visa doesn't give a fuck about your emails. Just hit them in the pocket book and switch off of them. Visa/Mastercard needs more transactions and to grow like any other company in USA. Deprive them of revenue and they'll notice.
The only way this outrage actually works in the long-term is if Visa/Mastercard loses money over this. So we need to think of how to make that actually happen.
The cost of your approach, is guaranteed financial failure for said devs, regardless of the outcome. To succeed, it would require enough users to change their purchase habits that finance companies would even notice. We all know the chances of that happening are miniscule. You'd be giving the crazies exactly what they want.
Have you not been paying attention to the campaign? That's exactly what they're doing, they're tying up the customer support systems in a way that will be noticed and can't be ignored. It's having an instant effect on their bottom line since they'll have to be scheduling more shifts right now to deal with the increased workload. Nobody's suggesting emails.