Personally speaking, I don't think Steam should've been hosting these kind of games to begin with, but there are ways of filtering out such content from even "accidentally" coming into your feed or your recommendations (the fact that people STILL don't use these features is legitimately baffling to me).
pretty sure the adult games flag is on by default, exactly to prevent little timmy from accidentally seeing a pixel tiddie and his mother going full karen (not to mention comply with local law).
which always outs the retards complaining about those games clogging up their feed since normally they wouldn't see them to begin with. in general it's pretty dumb to complain about what else get sold in a fucking digital store. "but I can't find the good stuff" - as you said valve did plenty of work for people to see shit they like (so they buy it, duh), but even then there are fucking dozens of websites and youtubers and other ways to find out about non-mainstream stuff. those people are not only retarded, they're also lazy.
Heck, I can see them trying to make payment processors debank ALL OF JAPAN so hard that it exceeds Russia-levels of sanctions, to try to make Japan either backpedal so hard, or they become a Failed State.
doubt that's gonna work. due to the language alone japan consumes a lot of local media, sanctions would hurt the japanese way less than companies like apple when the can't sell their phones there anymore. as I said in another thread they aren't as demoralized as the west (yet) so they would rise enough of a stink.
and since nothing happens in a vacuum, you can bet other countries take note. EU likes to fine us companies and first amendment is arguably something trump/vance care about (at least enough to give europe shit behaving like payment processors), there's a good chance we could see some antitrust cases brought up. trump also has experience with getting debanked, if I'd had to guess which side he's closer to it's not the banks.
iirc there are already plans in europe to decouple financial systems (especially after the whole swift shit with russia), but I can't remember it's name and how far along they are. the shit that's happening right now is only gonna accelerate this tho, so I have no idea what the payment processor's master plan is possibly losing asia and europe over this shit.
