Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli...
by cogman10 on Friday July 18, 2025 @10:49PM
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> would likely result in its bankruptcy.
Maybe? Depends on how customers are sold on the mission. If it's sold as protecting children I could see a number of people ditching their cards.
> Starting a holy card that doesn’t work at gas stations etc is an extremely uphill battle.
True. It'd take a large amount of initial capital and would likely need a targeted and regional rollout with some nice incentives to the merchants.
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli...
by AlexandrB on Friday July 18, 2025 @11:25PM
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Don't know about that. Costco banned Mastercard and they're doing fine.
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli...
by Retric on Saturday July 19, 2025 @12:49AM
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They wouldn’t need to create a new payment processor if they could just swap to Mastercard. Thus it was also implicitly excluded by Chick-fil-A in their proposal.
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli...
by mango7283 on Saturday July 19, 2025 @08:02AM
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I looked this up, they still accept visa. So not quite the same
Starting a holy card that doesn’t work at gas stations etc is an extremely uphill battle.