You have one job.

Payment processors have been censoring people due to politics for years, sad that them censoring porn is the only way to get this side of the internet riled up about it

Stoke the fire, don't complain it wasn't burning yesterday.

Might as well start using cash almost exclusively except for buying Steam gift cards.

If anybody is bored:

This may be a valid usecase for AI, too
- No.

The hilarious thing is, according to Valve, MC won't even communicate directly with them.

Could they accept crypto? I can pay for my shady IPTV service with it, so why not games too? There's gotta be a way around this.

You can probably find a place to buy Steam gift cards with crypto...
Steam gift cards can be paid in cash
Wouldn't solve the problem.
If Steam republished all its now censored games, and magically developed and implemented a world class crypto payment system overnight...
Then Steam is still in breach of MC/Visas terms, and MC and Visa drop them, and now everyone has no choice other than to use GabeBucks or w/e to purchase Steam games with.
Also, Valve now pays employees and game publishers in GabeBucks.
Which would cause a fuck ton of games to leave Steam.
- Then Steam is still in breach of MC/Visas terms
  Are they even in breach of those terms right now? My understanding was that it only mentions illegal games. This was part of the reason why MC isn't even talking to Valve, because they have no leg to stand on.
- Gabebucks
  They sell them at gamestop and best buy.
They could easily accept crypto. The problem is paying devs and staff. You have to pay them with dollars or their native currency.
If crypto was mass adopted, this is the ultimate answer and would put them out of business anyways.
- They could easily accept crypto.
  No, they could not, not easily.
  The problem is paying devs and staff. You have to pay them with dollars or their native currency.
  ... Yes. These are... the main reasons why this is not easy.
  You're basically either running your own FOREX exhange, which is costly, complicated, expensive and intensive...
  Or you are holding a significant chunk of your operating budget in... one, many, all cryptos? Which is extremely financially risky...
  Or, you're paying people directly in crypto, which ironically, probably a vast majority of people and entities that publish on Steam would quit the platform if that was mandated... kinda like how MC+Visa making a unilateral decision forced Steam to ban a bunch of games.
  ...
  You're doing magical thinking.
  Stop that.
- Or something like Gnu Taler, which has many of the advantages of crypto with few of the problems.
- Stablecoins already solve that. Not very trustworthy because they could in theory do the same but as a temporary solution should work.
Crypto is volatile, any volatile currency is not a good currency to be used, as most people will either hoard it or trade it. Alternatively people can use steam wallet.
- DAI is pegged to the US dollar
You might, but most won't.
10 or so years ago, Steam accepted payments in Bitcoin, for some reason they stopped, so they certinaly can do that but chose not to.
Also, 99% of people would not use it so wouldn't change much.

Sure thing...jackass...

The fact I can hear their exact voices saying this says something.