Absolutely. Fuck payment processors

Someone’s gonna process the payment between the two banks, adding an intermediary between both banks won’t help much when it will be denied processing as well.

Having worked in the payment industry, there is a lot of work to be done.

Even if you use the EMV standard, which almost all of the payment processor are based on, the challenge is to interface with the banks and making sure that every cards and terminals follow your standard.

And that’s if you can convince banks to even accept you payment standard in the first place.

It is one of my “old man yell at cloud” moment, but he doesn’t give a shit. He has dodged every consequence of his actions until now. Why would that be different now?

Credit cards companies forced itch.io to remove these games, otherwise they would stop processing their transactions, effectively bankrupting itch.io.

Without payments processors, they can’t sell games.

Having a federated platform wouldn’t mean much if the payments processors blanket ban the platform.

A production code should never have any warning left. This is a simple rule that will save a lot of headaches.