In recent weeks, a scandal has been shaking the gaming world. This has as protagonists MasterCard, , Visa and Steam. But now a new protagonist has joined: paypal. And it is that for some time there have been a fight between payment networks and platforms of videogames. This is because the former want platforms like Steam or Itch.io to stop selling H-style games.
The reason would be that they do not want to be involved with their networks being used so that users can buy “prohibited” content. Now paypal It has also joined, further increasing the controversy of the censorship of video games.
The controversy with censorship in video games continues: Paypal withdraws from Steam
A new chapter adds to the already great controversy linked to the world of gaming and censorship of videogames of type H. And it is that for some time now, two of the largest payment networks in the world, Visa and MasterCard, they asked platforms like Steam and itch.io That they remove all kinds of video game of “explicit” content from their stores. This to prevent users from using these means of payment to obtain them, which could stain the brand.
The original idea came from the Australian group Collective Shout, who asked Visa and MasterCard that the platforms remove this content. Finally, Steam And other platforms had to give up, but not without generating a debate on the networks that is still present today.
And now, with the sum of paypal As one of those payment networks that were against it, things scaled up even more. Steam confirmed that PayPal payments of various currencies will not now be accepted, only the main ones remaining: Euro, , Canadian dollars, , British pounds, , Japanese yen, , Australian dollar and US dollar.
The danger that this entails and the temporary solution of Steam
And although some of the most popular coins are still valid in Steam paying with paypal, this might not be the end. It has not yet been confirmed if only the coins withdrawn so far will be the only ones, so you could see the total withdrawal of PayPal on Steam in a few weeks. According to the same platform, that it has been retired to PayPal is for the same reason that it did so a short time ago. MasterCard. With this, it is fully confirmed that it is thanks to the censorship of the H-style games.
Similarly, from Steam, they asked the users that if they want to buy something on the platform, they resort to alternative means of payment. They even encouraged people to acquire codes of Steam in external stores to be able to then use them on the platform. And it is that from Steam they did not confirm if the situation of paypal It will be able to be solved, at least, with the coins that have already been withdrawn. Now all that remains is to wait for the weeks to pass to find out how these payment networks will act, which are already being boycotted on the Internet.
