>>23040322>“Mastercard did not communicate with Valve directly, despite our request to do so,” Valve’s statement sent over email to Kotaku reads. “Mastercard communicated with payment processors and their acquiring banks. Payment processors communicated this with Valve, and we replied by outlining Steam’s policy since 2018 of attempting to distribute games that are legal for distribution. Payment processors rejected this, and specifically cited Mastercard’s Rule 5.12.7 and risk to the Mastercard brand.”it's not that much text but i'll point out the important parts for people who are scared of long text.
>Mastercard did not communicate with Valve directly, despite our request to do sovalve said they directly requested communication with mastercard and mastercard didn't reply.
>we replied by outlining Steam’s policy since 2018 of attempting to distribute games that are legal for distribution. Payment processors rejected this, and specifically cited Mastercard’s Rule 5.12.7 and risk to the Mastercard brand.direct explicit specific citation of mastercard rule 5.12.7.
https://www.mastercard.us/content/dam/public/mastercardcom/na/global-site/documents/mastercard-rules.pdf>5.12.7 Illegal or Brand-damaging Transactions>A Merchant must not submit to its Acquirer, and a Customer must not submit to the Interchange System, any Transaction that is illegal, or in the sole discretion of the Corporation, may damage the goodwill of the Corporation or reflect negatively on the Marks.now for speculation. i know this isn't novel but the timing of everything makes me wonder if mastercard is going to eventually relent. "ok ok you can reinstate those games to your platforms... but you need to enact robust age verification processes." more normalization of online age verification. seriously it's all happening so fast. uk and australian laws coming into enforcement and microsoft this week saying they don't expect to keep it uk-only. also gay captcha.
