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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de -5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

This is insane.

Why? I am fucking sick of companies relying on private, third party companies as unneeded intermediaries for my financial transactions. Plenty of websites give you the ability to pay without them, so Valve not doing so leaves nobody at fault but Valve. They are a company, they should know that companies act in their own best interest, so if they want to prevent interference in the business model that is Steam, they should make their payment systems as independent as possible.

Valve is not a lost puppy that just happened to be run over by the truck that is payment processors. They know exactly what risks are involved and they did not care enough to prepare for them. If you make a deal with the devil then you shouldnt be surprised to get burned.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 27 points 2 weeks ago

Valve works with the same handful of payment providers everybody else does. Literally everybody else. I don't have a stance on how feasible it is to handle your own payment processing, but claiming that any company on the planet is negligent for not doing so is insane.

I am all on board for taking regulatory action against anticompetitive practices in this space from the oligopolistic few companies available in it.

My educated guess is that seems too remote for you to feel righteous by being angry at someone specific so we're talking about Valve instead.

Hell, I'm all for taking regulatory action against Valve for their own monopolistic practices. I'm just not here to posture ineffectual anger.

[–] arnitbier@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What in the world would you know about how money is moved from one place to another? Seriously?

You imply its easy by way of hand waving while you say your irritated and they are the reason for it. So tell me exactly, how should they make it function in relation to the actual LAW and the current banking/monetary environment? Hell how does it even work right now? Cause thays something you might need to know to pretend this much 👍

Well? You got time to be placing blame like it's so freaking easy. Let's see it 😗