me:
@leafo i know you can't be clearer on the precise reasons for shunting accounts onto "direct to you"
but is it hypothetically possible that, for comparable reasons, the same might be done to an account that had only ever sold SFW games?
not to ask about a particular situation, but whether there could conceivably be any such situation
leafo:
Good question, I can think of at least one developer off the top of my head in our past where we may have considered using this restriction if we had it implemented at the time. It's the same justification: mitigating risk. We assume a liability & cost with running accounts in our Payouts system, and sometimes we have to make the difficult decisions for the greater stability of the platform.
Unfortunately I don't think it's appropriate to share who this is and why, as we do not make private account matters public.
this was everyone's first assumption, but itch never actually said anything of the sort, so... i asked
feel like this bolsters my theory, which i've since refined into "customer fraud". it matches almost everything:
…the vast majority make fairly vanilla hetero stuff with 3d models — i.e., extremely mainstream. i suspect that would attract a larger share of distant randos (who would have fewer qualms about doing chargebacks or whatever), vs a closer audience who feels some personal investment in you and your work (and actively want you to have their money)
… if you're doing anything quirky or personal or queer, i would guess that your audience is very likely to feel invested in what you're doing, and you'll almost certainly be fine.
thank you. I haven’t wanted to point this out in the discord ‘cause the people saying it are clearly just lashing out after having been put in a bad situation (and very likely through little fault of their own if your guess is right), but every time someone said something like “but all the games that got hit were vanilla stuff, your game is way more a of a risk than mine” to someone making more niche games for queer/furry/etc. audiences was just… not fun to read
