Keep Your American Puritian Censorship Away From My Games

Gods forbid consenting adults see a drawing of an ankle or a breast, oh the humanity!

My son once saw a penis on accident and now all he does is play video games. Societal collapse is at our doorstep! Act now!

We need to adopt the Japanese way to buy stuff with cash. You get a bar code, take it to a convenience store, scan, pay. Clerk doesnt even know what it is. Just, yup, paid for, donezo. 7-11 could offer it and make bank, like how gas stations make a grip on sodas and the like from folks going in to pay for gas.

That doesn't sound convenient at all
- In Japan, most of the convenience stores are very well distributed making it that you often times have one close-by. Additionally, a lot of those convenience stores are 24/7 open. With it being open any time and having it close-by, it is still convenient enough if you can muster to go to a store and pay by cash. If you live in the city for example, you have one that only takes 1 to 10 minutes by foot.
- If I had to choose between that and VISA telling me I can't buy a game because it hurts their feefees...

While I get what you mean, the group that pushed this idiocy is actually Australian.

Visa and MC are still parasitic fucking blights though, to be fair.

Visa and Mastercard were under no obligation to give in to this group, yet they did. They are equally culpable in this whole fiasco.
In my honest opinion Wero is not the solution to this specific problem either.
They could potentially also unilaterally decide that they won't allow payments for specific types of purchases (Though they are still preferable to relying in American payment providers).
The real solution is proper regulation of payment providers that blocks them from refusing service.
- You mean - like - net neutrality?
Supported by Yankee hacks and sprigs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero_(payment)

Marketing professors will have a field day with this one. "Giving up a large part of your revenue voluntarily".

i don't understand why wero of all things is getting all this pr. every european country has it's own thing, and there's even an official international cooperation initiative. which wero is not part of.

There is EMPSA, EuroPA and EPI's Wero. It seems like EMPSA and EuroPA share some members between them and EuroPA and EPI are in a partnership. So kind of indirectly they are working together.
I think the reason Wero is getting attention is because its branded the same in all currently served countries/banks(?, I think), instead of just your banks/mobile apps being branded differently in each country but still being in an alliance on the backend.
- the entire point of the empsa is building a network of compatible apps so that people don't have to switch. the bank alliance-backed payment apps have already mostly captured their respective national markets, and getting a new actor into that market is goung to take a huge amount of effort. empsa also has actors in fifteen countries, while wero is in three.

Taler should be the one wearing a tuxedo

Do any banks actually support it yet?
- The goal is to make GNU Taler available as payment system via two European banks - GLS Bank (Germany) and MagNet Bank (Hungary).
  A couple banks in the EU are planning to support it. If you're in those country you could ask them for more info.
  Banks appear more eager to support Wero, which might be easier for them to support since it's a more typical architecture, and it allows collecting much more informations about customers and their payments.