Payment processors not banks . . .
Just sharing some actual links to things.
Here's the actual steam rule itself:
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"Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers. In particular, certain kinds of adult only content."
Here's a recently article:
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"Mastercard did not communicate with Valve directly, despite our request to do so," a Valve representative said. "Mastercard communicated with payment processors and their acquiring banks. Payment processors communicated this with Valve, and we replied by outlining Steam’s policy since 2018 of attempting to distribute games that are legal for distribution.
"Payment processors rejected this, and specifically cited Mastercard’s Rule 5.12.7 and risk to the Mastercard brand."
And finally here's a thread here for anyone interested.
Edit: I dislike linking facebook but this was from collective shout themselves since the person I'm responding to mentioned them:
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I think a lot of things are kind of still up in the air though as far as why the ultimate decisions to push things through occurred. Credit card companies seem to be a bit dodgy with their responses.
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Related from Mastercard
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