As a result of shop windows, such as Steam and Itch.io, limiting the sale of adult games, annoying fans began an organized campaign against payment processors, which they think are responsible for repression. While traffic is still at an early stage, people mobilize themselves with the overwhelming communication lines in companies such as Visa and Mastercard in a way that prevents the problem of ignoring.
On social networks, such as Reddit and BlueSky, people are calling for each other to contact Visa and Mastercard via E -Mail and telephone calls. Visa and Mastercard have become the subject of interest, because both affected shop windows claim that their decisions regarding adult games were motivated by the danger of losing the possibility of using the main payment processors during the sale of games. These payment processors have their own employ rules, but are unclearly defined. But the loss of such infrastructure can affect the audience significantly beyond people who care about sex games, Valve and Itch spokespersons.
In the deleted post on a steam subreddit with over 17,000 trackCommentators say that customer service representatives for both payment processors seem to know about the problem. Sometimes representatives will say that they have received many phones about the censorship of adult games, but that they can really do anything about it.
People exerting pressure know that someone in a call center has constrained power in a script like this; Usually, agents are prepared to solve standard customer problems such as payment fraud or losing a credit card. But it is not about making a change through a specific telephone conversation: it causes sufficient disturbance that theoretically began to cost the money of payment processors.
“E -Mile can be ignored, but a very long queue that prevents other customers will help a lot,” we read the most crucial comment on the Reddit thread. In the same thread, people say that they are hanging on a call, even if the operator says that they will experience hours of waiting times caused by similar connections releasing lines. In addition to the factor of stubbornness, the tactic is motivated to know that most customer service systems will put people who decide to defenders in a queue with a lower priority, because everyone who decides to make an emergency situation.
“Make both”, one of the commentators suggests. “Record call back to call back. Then call again and wait to get the queue live.”
People also employ E -Mail to express their fears directly to the management in both Visa and Mastercard, payment processors that the collective collective shout of the groups of activists caused in their open list with a request to withdraw from adult games. E -Mail is also sent to customer service. In the lithe of the coordinated effort, many people receive a previously written answer:
Thank you for reaching and sharing the perspective. As a global company, we follow the regulations and regulations wherever we operate. Although we clearly prohibit illegal activities in our network, we are also involved in the protection of legal trade. If the transaction is legal, our policy is transaction processing. We do not make moral judgments of legal purchases made by consumers. Visa does not moderate the content sold by sellers, nor do we have visibility for specific goods or services sold during transaction processing. When the legally operative buyer is in the face of increased risk of illegal activity, we require increased security for banks supporting these buyers. For more information on Visa’s rules, visit our network integrity page at Visa.com. Thank you for writing.
On platforms such as BlueSky, resources are available to facilitate people know who to contact and how, in this possible scripts to talk to representatives or sending e -mail messages. The site was created with a clear goal of armament of those interested in tools and knowledge necessary to perform its role in the campaign.
Through everything, players tell each other to stay warmly during all interactions with payment processors, especially in contacts with low -level employees, who simply try to do their job. In the case of management, the purpose of maintaining a caring tone is to facilitate people take the problem seriously.
The strategy is impressive in depth and width of performance. While some get married with an activist, others say so They pretend to be confused customers who want to know why they can’t employ a visa or mastercard to buy their favorite games.
Meanwhile, Collective Shout-Organization, which originally complained about Steam, Visa and Mastercard for adult games with inconspicuous violence against women-she recently staged Own statement next to the axis of the time of events.
“For months, we raised opposition to rape and incest in Steam, and they ignored us for months,” we read the blog entry from Collective Shout. “We turned to payment processors because Steam did not answer us.”
Collective Shout claims that he only turned to itching. ICU to pull out games with sexualized violence or torture against women, but allegedly the shop with his own decision to censor NSFW content throughout the place. At Current, Itch.io has games with motives for adults, which means that these games cannot be seen on their search pages. STORE is still independent during the resolution and outline of the rules regarding the content of adults on the website, but the network has been so wide that it also affects some games with LGBT topics.
In another popular Reddit threadUsers say that customer service representatives pass from the confusion to repeating that their fears are “heard”.
“I will call them again in a few to days to see if there has been any progress in the change of situation,” says the original poster.
Perhaps a different comment in this thread summarizes the sample: “There are really only 2 things that players can unite: hate campaigns and gooning.”
