Does it really matter when you're a duopoly and equally bad as one another?

I want to cancel ally visa and mastercard cards and never give them my business ever again after this

I think some christian items could also be affected, like the bible. Cane and Able, crucifixion, etc are all in that book

Right now in Rimworld I am sending child soldiers to bring more ammo to the mortars that are busy pounding away at some primitive tribesmen that are angry at me for dumping a few tons of toxic waste on their home or something.

Those that survive the mortar bombardment will be lobotomised and enslaved. If they have enough limbs remaining to be useful to me I will probably use a few of them as slaves and the rest will be sold to the empire. Any that the empire don't want will be harvested for organs and dumped in a corpse pit.

I didn't ask if the tribesmen consented to any of this.

it would put circumcision too, but the USA doesn't care

Diablo 2, corpse explosion!

Oh did you not read the years and years of actions religious groups did to snuff games and movies?

Mortal Kombat is gone.

Mutilation seems to imply more than just violence or killing. For example, Days Gone has a scene very early that involves flaying someone's skin off, I would imagine that type of stuff would qualify.

It's not even that vague.

Valve basically said: "we are not doing anything illegal".

To which mastercard responded: "yeah but you're making us look bad, so tough".

To be fair, that would be fucking hilarious.

Unironically, COD getting delisted would probably get mainstream media coverage and legitimate outrage from people who “don’t play video games” but actually do.

Some kid on COD said he fucked my mom and then he called me a faggot.

you're missing some context in that.

"The sale of a product... which is patently offensive and lacks serious artistic value... (such as... images of... Nonconsensual mutilation of a person or body part"

insert joke about COD lacking artistic value, but clearly there is more to COD than just body mutilation.

Also most movies, tv shows, books, every single religious text

Mastercard is living the corporate dream. They've colluded their way to a near monopoly and don't have to care about the value of their brand. They just have to be invisible enough that they don't pull heat for something or other from various governments.

Honestly, I don't care if MasterCard doesn't want to take responsibility. It was their rule and their intermediaries that caused the situation and they did not intervene when valve tried to reach out directly.

They are responsible through action or inaction, no matter how they try to deny it.

they did the exact same thing in the porn industry. naturally Visa and MC didn't communicate directly with the individual porn companies. So thats' how places like CCBill and what have you took off. and then Visa and MC laid out their weird rules to CCBill who then passed it along to the individual companies.

At work when no one wants to pick up a task, I issue the "slopey shoulders" award.

CollectiveShout did take responsibility & they're Confirmed to be pedos, so what are we waiting for ?

MasterCard is so big they don't even know what all their departments are doing. The PR department probably asked a couple of the top level execs if they were pushing for this and they said no so they claimed it didn't happen.

they're blaming it on the middle men

In a statement to Kotaku, a spokesperson for Valve said that while Mastercard did not communicate with it directly, concerns did come through payment processor and banking intermediaries.

Not necessarily. Valve says they haven't heard from Mastercard directly. Is there evidence of Itch.io having been approached at all? It seems to me that they just made the move to delist and investigate to be safe in the wake of Valve's rule changes.

What I see is Mastercard hiding behind their generic rules for processors and being fine with the processors taking unilateral action that could damage their brand.

Mastercard should demand they rescind the decision based on a flawed interpretation of their rules since the content IS NOT ILLEGAL where Steam provides it, or drop those processors entirely due to the brand damage their unilateral decision has caused. If Mastercard lets this sit, that signals that they agree with this decision, regardless of what they say, and they should be treated as such.

Couldn't they just block collective shout thus probably losing far less business?

Oh shit, that's an old school reference. Poor Mr. Cheeseface.

For those unfamiliar, this is from an old National Lampoons magazine.

A few years later, someone actually shot that dog.