Payment Processor Fun 2025 – Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider
2025-08-14: Payment Processor Fun 2025 — Making Your Own MSP Valve and Itch have been in the spotlight for being more or less forced by “Payment processors” to pull certain adult content off their storefronts. The short story of it is Valve pulled a couple of games down while Itch pulled down everything marked mature/adult temporarily and had to sort through their entire library to find certain kinds of content to remove. One of these responses drew more ire than the other, understandably. I tend to believe this is a factor of how big they are and how much weight they had to swing around to fight back. But that’s not really the point of this ramble. Two of the big things I see repeated over and over in criticism of Itch specifically here: “Itch should just make their own payment…
