The group responsible is “Collective Shout”, the same org has targeted Steam before.

There are calls on social media now to contact Mastercard, Visa and co. and file complaints.

  • Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    6 days ago

    Oh wow. Itch is also involved even though I would assume they have less than 1% of Steam’s gross revenues.

    • vamo@lemmings.worldEnglish
      141·
      6 days ago

      I guess they can’t push back like steam can, they’re much smaller. But if they could, would they?

      • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
        6·
        6 days ago

        Neither can Steam. Visa and Mastercard make up 90% of all online purchases outside China. If they cut off Steam then Steam is effectively dead.

        • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          5 days ago

          Steam has no power. They are beholden to a very particular monopoly that can get away with anything it wants and is currently being manipulated by unethical evangelical fascists.

    • Gibibit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      The amount of money Valve rakes in with Steam is insane. If itch had even 0.1% of that it would be a much bigger website. Itch had to limit dynamic filtering (like searching for Arcade + Fantasy) to just a few preset tags because of the server load. I wouldn’t be surprised if the number compared to Steam is less than 0.01%. People who want DRM free games generally go to GOG. Hell a lot of DRM free indie/AAA/retro games don’t even get listed on itch, so they get only the tiniest portion of the pie.

      • Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        Itch had to limit dynamic filtering (like searching for Arcade + Fantasy) to just a few preset tags because of the server load.

        That sounds rough. I follow a few devs/projects on Itch, but I don’t really use their discovery features.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      That’s why they’re first going after such cases. In Hungary we named this tactic the “goose liver method”. Goose liver is often created by overfeeding geese, which is abuse. A lot of smaller political party, instead of regulating farming, decided to campaign on banning goose liver entirely, while bashing the food item as a “luxury only the rich can afford”.