Steam now bans games that violate the ‘rules and standards’ of payment processors and banks

STEAM has added a new base to its guidelines that led to some games, . The new item states that “the content that may violate the rules and criteria stipulated in Steam payment processors, card networks and related banks, or Internet providers” may not lead to removal from the statute.

In other words, if credit card companies are angry with something, they may actually have the ability to block the game. The condition, which will affect “certain types of content for adults only.”

This has already already led to many games. The vast majority of these titles have clear sexual topics, many of which have the word “thug” in the title. STEAMDB does not give a reason to this removal, but the timing match.

This step may seem unusual on her face, but payment treatments have been constantly fought against the use of adult content. These battles are usually incited by the idea that the platforms that do not contain adults only do not have enough guarantees against illegal content.

MasterCard and Visa prevented in 2020. MasterCard went forward in 2021, the “requirements of merchants’ registration” that the banks linking the merchants to our network will need to be ratified that the adult content seller has effective controls in place, and when necessary, all illegal content is revealed. “

I doubt that you will find a lot of people bothering these games with titles like Sexual adventures – the family of the sacrifice It is removed from the platform, but it may put an anxious precedent. Some Steam users feel distressive from this rule changing “quiet normalization of financial control”.

In other words, if the giant financial institutions get to determine what is appropriate and what is inappropriate, then who says that it will not eventually affect regular games? A Steam user notes that “Queer’s content is marked as” explicit “even when PG is, which is one user” seems not harmful at first glance but a Trojan horse. “

On the other hand, Steam was home to some of the really wrong content over the years. We have contacted Valve to request a comment on this news and we will update this post when we hear again.