itch.io

I do hope someone with an enterprising sense and the necessary resources is taking note of the market niche opening up.

https://www.dlsite.com

DLSite told Visa and MasterCard to go take a walk, so they are still an option, but you have to jump through a couple hoops to purchase outside of Japan.

Actually I think I'll take this opportunity to go buy anything there as a token of appreciation for that.

Not sure how it works for non-Japanese developers to publish games there now, though.

People in countries that have widespread local payment methods (like Pix down here in Brazil) have a enterprising opportunity right now. Though unfortunately it's not a global one, yet. Similar to how DLSite said no to the American companies and just stuck with the Japanese payment methods.

I wish some of those payment methods would go international quicker. This cartel of Visa and MasterCard needs competition.

But yeah, crypto is an option too. I never thought I'd say that in my life, but I think I see the appeal of crypto better nowadays after the recent few years.

And they seem to be in a power grab of sorts, because it's not about just this censorship of video games.

The USA government, likely lobbied by them, is launching probes to "investigate unfair trade practices" in alternative payment methods of another country just this month too.

They are a cartel and want to solidify their stranglehold on the globalized economy.

They ultimately want every monetary transaction in the world to go through them, every piece of information about who purchases what when, every decision about what can or can't be sold. It's a corporation cartel acting like an imperialist country.

One media outlet had published a piece about them a while ago, and later removed the piece and fired the writer.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1m5fxjn/vice_removes_articles_on_collect...

https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-g...

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/australian-anti-porn-group-claims-responsibility-for-steams-new-censorship-rules-in-victory-against-porn-sick-brain-rotted-pedo-gamer-fetishists-and-things-only-get-weirder-from-there/

The article even got removed from The Wayback Machine (you can note on the PCGamer article that it mentions the article can still be found there, but that's no longer the case anymore).

I don't know how or why this small group has this kind of power, but it all looks fishy as hell.

Fuck off with the civil bullshit.

This pacifist crap is why the world has gotten to become this shit filled bull sack that it did.

The idea of non-violence is the most successful propaganda ever, it only exists to keep the masses docile and easy to control.

MasterCard and Visa would be a lot less bold if there were more guillotines around, for one.

"Useful" is a stretch.

We live in the stupidest timeline were fucking credit card companies have a cartel that gets to censor stuff based on a bunch of maniacs that can't distinguished reality from fiction.