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in reply to @Bigg's post:
is it a hot take to say that if itch drives all the adult game creators off its platform that it would be the death of itch?
it might take a good while to really die but it could start an unrecoverable tailspin if people see what they're doing and jump ship. something something it keeps happening
Wow, I thought itch was better than that (not that any companie is good or anything). Do you think they were pressured to make this change? Maybe not directly, but maybe they were scared because of a recent law? But I'm not trying to defend them.
I send you well-wshes, that is unfortunately all that I have
It’s almost completely certain they were pressured to make this change, but it still sucks.
i wouldn't panic just yet based solely on
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an email that doesn't say who it's about, what kind of games they made, or anything about what prompted this decision
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a tweet that also doesn't say who received the email and only vaguely handwaves "many"
that's a lot of very conspicuous omissions and makes me suspicious that there's a more specific reason being left out
aaand the only concrete example i can find so far is the dev for a game called Sisterly Lust
I did do SOME research - here's statements from a couple of popular adult game devs about having received these e-mails:
Also, bear in mind that the e-mails only seem to have started going out over the past few days, making it conceivable that many devs haven't made decisions or public statements of their own yet. The lack of communication around what standards have supposedly been violated is, surprise, another not very good thing!
if this were a sweeping policy change then it would make no sense to do it one dev at a time via support staff (which i suspect is like, two people) and not tell anyone what's going on. they could easily patch the site itself to tell you all this if you use "pay itch first" + have nsfw games
something else must be going on, and it sucks that we don't know what it is, but it's quite a few leaps to go from this to "itch is banning all adult game sales (but not saying that for some reason)" and tbh i think it's deeply irresponsible of perverteer to state that like it's a known fact
To be clear, it's at least Perverteer, Feyada, and a 3rd creator (can't find the tweet, think the name was Black-something) which, combined with the fact that there hasn't yet been any official response from Itch on Twitter or their forums despite them being asked about it repeatedly, is enough to make me nervous
I'd very much like for this to not be an actual exclusionary policy, I like using Itch, but it's also wicked condescending to act as though there's no cause for alarm here
If this screencap is to be believed, some of the reasoning may be due to Itch's generous revenue sharing policy in addition to the usual payment processing woes.
This is the last thing I expect to happen with itch.io; I really don't see this ending well.
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