The outcry after a recent marketplace crackdown on games with adult content, seemingly due to pressure from payment processors, prompted Mastercard to release a brief statement Friday pushing back ...

Last month, Steam removed several adult games from its storefront, despite usually having a high tolerance for the content it hosts. Itch then followed suit, deindexing all of its NSFW games.

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TL;DR: Mastercard's payment rules, especially Rule 5.12.7, have indirectly led to the removal of adult games from Steam and Itch.io, as payment processors pressured platforms to comply to avoid losing ...

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Mastercard has issued a statement claiming is has "not required restrictions of any activity on game creator sites and platforms", despite allegations from both Steam and itch.io to the contrary. In a ...