I just saw GoG announce https://freedomtobuy.games/ too
So if the problem is payment, what stops a company from selling “tokens” and those tokens can be redeemed for “anything”?
That way the visa / mastercard assholes can suck a cock, no?
Add some massive unregulated grifting and hideous environmental consequences to your idea, and you’ve just invented Bitcoin.
The whole crypto scene seems like a scheme at the moment… But then you see the bullshit visa / mastercard are pulling and you see the need for a digital currency.
Any corporation with near monopoly power will ALWAYS fuck up the consumer.
Crypto, in my view is more conceded with libertarianism than actually helping anyone. I read the grievances as capitalism not providing enough opportunity to be the boot.
Even still crypo is centralized as that is how most people interact with it. The speculative nature also makes it a bad currency.
Crypto, in my view is more conceded with libertarianism
WTF are you actually trying to say here?
Conceded is the past tense of concede, which is to surrender.
How the fuck do you more surrendered with anything???
Typo: wanted to write concerned
Just make instant direct payments… you know, like SEPA. No need for any new schemes.
So devs got to eat it because this company can’t stand up to Mastercard and Visa.
Itch.io is currently saying the problem is Stripe, and maybe Visa.
Historically (ex: https://otakuusamagazine.com/visa-and-mastercard-refuse-to-work-with-another-doujinshi-retailer/), I’d say Mastercard and Visa are both to blame. But the jury is still out on wtf is going on here.
I’m not sure who pressured Steam. But Itch.io (https://aftermath.site/steam-itch-porn-censorship-collective-shout-visa-mastercard-paypal) is claiming Stripe and Visa are pressuring them.
(Speaking with Aftermath, Itch’s founder, Leaf Corcoran, specifically cited a notice from Visa as an incident that led to the sudden deindexing of so many games).
Hot take!
Go back to paying via SMS! xD
If they make it free but adapt some content lock for further progress, which you can get by donating to dev? It would not be too bad, be better for the dev as no cut is taken by itch
So… Who processes the donation?
Any ethical website that is already a donation handler for content creators?
The problem is the payment processor. There’s only so many of them that customers actually choose to use.
The problem cited by payment processor is dodged if the money is coming in as donations rather than payments, no?
