What is Disintermediation?
Disintermediation means "cutting out the middle man" or eliminating intermediaries from a transaction. On StartPlaying, disintermediation means cutting StartPlaying out of payments for games listed on our website.
What does the Terms of Service say about Disintermediation?
The StartPlaying Terms of Service states:
Do not request, make, advertise or accept a booking or any payment outside of the StartPlaying Platform to avoid paying fees, taxes or for any other reason. This includes taking payment via Paypal, Venmo, Cashapp, or any other service from users who came from StartPlaying website, app, Discord server, and/or engage with a game, messaged, or discovered you on StartPlaying.
If a game is listed on StartPlaying, all payments for that game must be made through StartPlaying.
Taking payment for a StartPlaying game outside of StartPlaying will result in a strike or ban and removal from the platform.