Recently, Australian feminist group Collective Shouts pressured payers Visa and Mastercard to force Steam and Itch.io to modify the rules, causing hundreds of adult games to be removed, which caused huge waves in the gaming industry.

Accordingly, payment companies such as Visa, Mastercard and Stripe are facing strong public opposition, including billionaire Elon Musk.

Well-known anti-woke pusher @Vara Dark tweeted: Payers now control our entertainment.If you support censorship, you are a bad guy at heart.That's it.

According to foreign media The Gamer, U.S. lawmakers submitted a bill to Congress in February this year. If the bill is passed, credit card companies may no longer be able to refuse to provide services to developers as long as the products sold by developers are legal.This means that companies like Visa and Mastercard will no longer be forced by political entities to remove adult games from gaming platforms such as Steam and Itch.

Due to widespread boycott from players, both Visa and Mastercard's stock prices fell sharply, resulting in Mastercard's issuing a statement denied proactively reviewing or restricting game content.

Mastercard stressed that it did not evaluate any games, nor did it ask the game platform or developers to limit the content of the game.Mastercard emphasizes "acting according to law". They will allow all legal purchases, but they also retain restrictions on illegal content. Merchants must have compliant control measures to prevent their cards from being used for illegal transactions, including illegal adult content.This is a standard compliance requirement, not a "ethical review" of a specific game or content.