Steam recently began to prohibit games that violate the "rules and standards" of payment processors and banks. It's a move which many consider a form of censorship, predominantly affecting adult games. Nier creator Yoko Taro says not only is this bad for games, but it "endangers democracy itself."
Yoko Taro tweets (as spotted and translated by Automaton): "About credit card payment companies refusing to process payments for legal adult content. Publishing and similar fields have always faced regulations that go beyond the law, but the fact that a payment processor, which is involved in the entire infrastructure of content distribution, can do such things at its own discretion seems to me to be dangerous on a whole new level."
