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Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs (nmiagaming.com)
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Collective shout seems to have expanded its scope: games like cult classic Fear And Hunger have been removed from Itch.io, while horror game VILE: Exhumed has been delisted from Steam just a week after launch.

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[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago (16 children)

I don't get why the gaming platforms are removing games instead of removing the objecting payment providers as a payment option for purchasing those particular games.

If visa doesn't want people to purchase game X with Visa, then remove Visa as payment option for buying game X.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 16 points 3 days ago (5 children)

  1. Itch has come out and said it's not Visa, it's PayPal and Stripe.

  2. Removing those payment options would cause a massive loss of revenue.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

But removing them from the specific games they object to would not lose any more revenue than removing the games entirely, and reduce the backlash significantly, as long as they could find 1 obscure payment provider to handle the obscure games and keep some form of access.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

According to the statement someone else linked now, they will ask devs about whether they comply with the payment processors' terms, and it sounds like those processors will otherwise be unavailable. They just had to blanket remove like this for now because they don't actually have sufficient knowledge about all the games' content.

We'll see what will happen, and if it turns out devs are getting screwed in the long run, someone will fill the new market niche anyway.

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