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Ooh, ooh, I like this game!

Let’s see… hm… surely we disapprove when there is a genocide happening in the Mediterranean? Let’s block all payments with links to a certain state… while we’re at it: let’s add a certain religion, too. It’s the moral thing to do!

Who’s next? Hmmmmm… oh, I don’t like an orange man living in a white house (the blue man living in a blue house is fine, for now). We shall block any payments with any links to the United States. That shall do it!

It feels so good to fight against immoral and infidel people. It is a moral war… nah… holy war!

Personally, I think: why pay for games anyway??? Just go to the high seas…

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EA will protect it's customer base from the bad hacky community that is Linux. Do they realize how stupid they sound?

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I'm starting to feel like somewhere in the mid-layers of one of these outfits, there's some lawyer who received a complaint, looked over some terms and conditions, and decided to issue a cease and desist just to be cautious, or talk to the mid-level lawyers in one of the other organizations and get them to issue it, and none of the PR flacks at any of these places, or the upper level executives for that matter, have a clue what the hell is going on.
Sprawling organizations with too much unaccountable power.

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They're doing ~ 16 terabits of transfer a day. That's actually a lot lower than I would have expected.

I looked at the page and it is listed as 23.6 Tbps, it's Tbps.

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Just package it for flatpak officially and be done.. let it be known anything outside flatpak is NOT supported.. and go a step further do what bottles does and make packagers put a disclaimer in the non flatpak packages!

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They should do the route of other indie game store like DLsite: supporting every single payment processor whenever possible.

They even have things like Indonesian QRIS or Chinese AliPay. Basically bypassing any American payment system.

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Who would have thought that these companies that pay with our money are a bunch of liars.

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In the Dark Grim future. Everything is censored, and everything is a crime! Jail Planet Earth!

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(MasterCard used Payment Processors to talk to Valve) (Valve requested direct communication with MasterCard and were declined) (Payment Processors) specifically cited Mastercard’s Rule 5.12.7 and risk to the Mastercard brand.

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This is hilarious because as I understand it MasterCard is now in the "it wasn't us" -- "deny" phase. They are acting like it's not them but they are cowards to not tell the public, if someone gave the order -- who gave the order?

So much damage has been done to their brand. Whoever gave the order must have calculated the cost because the fallout from this may lead to VISA / MasterCard annihilation in the future.

I'm really pleased, the more they try to tighten grip, the closer they bring themselves to their own dissolution.

Black markets are what give a currency its value in their early phases -- their attempt to control & prohibit will only feed the rise of the next beast to take their place.

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Personally I think some of the games that got removed deserved it though, actually, probably most of them.

Imagine if something you like gets banned because some busy-body thinks it "deserves" to be removed. If we allow this to set such a precedent, it is only a matter of time. First they came for the porn games and I did no speak out because I wasn't a gooner. When they came for *my interest* there was no one left to speak out.

You can't legislate (this is even worse - it isn't even legislation!) morallity.

People have different preferences/interests and as long as none of it is deemed illegal, all of it must be allowed.

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Itchy.

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And here comes the blame game...

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You heard it here first folks, adult content is being taken down by platforms that make money off of them and have no reason to take it down, somehow. Surely the giant multinational conglomerate has no reason to fib!

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Added statement from Valve.

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If not you, then whom? 😐

It is the payment processor, I assume that many people have no clue how this all works since they started to blame VISA and Mastercard for this. To be able to process cards in your store (online or offline) you have to have both an agreement with a card company (VISA, Mastercard and so on) and a payment processor (Klarna, Stripe, Paypal and so on) and it is these last ones that makes lots of demands, at least that is my own experience from having implemented payment solutions as a startup many years ago (they had strict rules against porn, weapons and so on and you had to go through a whole vetting process before they allowed you to use their services).

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I still think that Valve (and/or itch and EGS,) should have a channel that just plays trailers on loop, for when players are looking for something new and don't know what. Restream it on Twitch and YouTube with a bot that puts out a link to it, for bonus points. I think it'd be great background viewing, like Salty Bet or whatever.

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Get creative without the cloud.

I like the going back to "own your software, own your data". Good selling pitch to me.

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Yeah, but what other payment networks are out there? Visa and Master Card basically control the market, with Amex not far behind... PayPal, Stripe and most similar services? They still rely on the other payment networks "behind the scenes".

Sure, somebody could setup their own "consumer first" alternative payment network... But an alternative payment network would need to be independent of a financial institution (e.g. a bank) as much as realistically possible, as said financial institution would likely receive pressure from Visa / Master Card / etc to discontinue association with the alternative payment network.

In short, setting up a financial institution (e.g. a bank) is a big task, setting up an alternative payment network would be a herculean task.

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@Cyril to be clear, we're thinking AUR packages should be fine, right? Since it doesn't distribute the source or binaries? Of course anyone who executes the PKGBUILD would be secretly violating the license as pointed out by that second DrMcCoy comment.

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Companies always only talking about Open Source using negative words. It very bad they use godot and do not told about this. I known closed-source programs, which use OpenSource and they are a lot, but they only mention about this in license text. Nobody normal reads license, because companies told humans that licenses were only to battle with piracy.

they dont have to, the game isnt powered by godot , i mean, the rendering isnt done using godot, nor the physics, audio or multiplayer, just an level editor they made.

never mind, it was not about the game, they riped off godot totally '-'

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They might be actively blocking Linux on their anticheat, but I recently discovered that I'm actively blocking myself from buying anything made by EA.

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iF sony win this, rockstar can sue sony for using "Humans" style model etc. npc's in their games. XD Then sony will intruduce us so called Reptilians and get sued again because they look like humans in rockstar games.
then prooly we get used to pay 1000$ per game because there arent any cheap clones in any form. Also we have forced to get PSN for playing that copyright protected stuff from Sony.

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I understand not wanting to maintain a build for a distro, heck, even Linux as a platform. The part about not needing to care when you aren't being paid, I'm totally behind them on.

But Stenzek appeared quite hostile to allowing anyone else to support Linux. Kind of an "I don't want to support it, and I don't want anyone else to support it either!" type mindset based on the Creative Commons license that DuckStation uses, and the hostility to disallow building on a specific distro (Arch Linux, in this case).

Unofficial packages exist, and they are not upstream's problem. I don't understand why they want to be so hostile here. Users can complain, but as a maintainer, you don't need to care. Heck, you don't even need to tell users where to go to get support. I fully understand the frustration of dealing with end-users. But just focus on developing and supporting what you own. If a user gets a package from a third party they are not your problem, especially if they can't even tell whether they got it from you or not.

For those discussing issue templates: Stenzek has issues disabled on the GitHub repository. It appears to me that bug reports are primarily brought in through some form of Discord Server (where information goes to die, I might add).

Stenzek's prior behaviour has left a poor taste in my mouth with using DuckStation, and this has, too. It is absolutely trying my ability to separate the software from the creator.

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If not you, then whom? 😐

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I don't know anything about the topic, but I'm sure they get very special discounts?

I suppose so, yes.

Check this out btw:
https://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

They're doing ~ 16 terabits of transfer a day. That's actually a lot lower than I would have expected.

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as a small business owner, the seething rage fueled loathing hatred of a thousand suns for all these mafia companies (visa / mc / discover / amex / etc) will never die. Don't trust a single word these vile abominations utter from their anuses.

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My personal solution: Mednafen.

Sounds like an antidepressant medication. Which would work, kind of: "The problem still exists, but I don't care any more!"

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Yeah, my first thought was "Wait a minute. So this is a new capability that lets me drive myself crazy by making it look like my games are sorted wrong!"

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@Kimyrielle
But Stripe did say it was them. Forced by their banking partners, but it’s them nonetheless refusing to serve adult content transactions. Unlike Mastercard saying they haven’t imposed any restrictions.

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@Cyril you are absolutely right, I completely overlooked that part of your post, my bad. DrMcCoy did indeed answer my question. Thank you McCoy!

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