Posted April 27, 2023 by Aquapaulo!
Seemingly at arbitrary times and choices, they've picked several of my colleagues off at once since as early as February.
This change, from "Collected by Itch (Paid Later)" to "Direct to you", forces a user to take the responsibility of selling the product that Itch themselves guaranteed us. It forces smaller individual developers to link their service to several payment processors themselves, and collect and remit VAT and other sales tax. It was a responsibility we were made sure wasn't ours.
We weren't warned about this purge. And from the website owner's reaction to these private e-mails below going public on the Itch Discord server, we weren't meant to know until we seemingly broke a guideline we weren't made aware of.
Development of In Heat: Honeymoon will still continue. All future updates will still be uploaded to this page. As of right now, I'm not affected by these changes. But as soon as I am, my presence in Itch will essentially be over other than to update Honeymoon.
Agreements have been met with Monsterbox to continue further development of Honeymoon on both this and a separate page. But it will mean my other products, Pandemommyum included, will not be available for sale on Itch any longer. They will still be available but noone will be able to perform a new purchase. There are plans to port it to Steam, however.
But anything is uncertain at the moment. I've asked the owner directly if my games met the guidelines and was ignored. Answering would set a standard that they don't want us to find out about, but will punish us for breaking.
I'll remind you, this was not a thing that could happen that was made aware to us. Itch made no efforts in letting us know. When asked about what was guideline-breaking or not, we were told to "try it out". And that if we reach a point where we find we broke these guidelines, it was final and that we shouldn't have reached it.
I will be fine, thanks to your support up to now. But the future of this platform is uncertain. I hope you'll continue supporting me by following me to the subsequent platform I'll migrate to. Thank you to you guys and to Monsterbox, who have been supporting me up to now.
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The endings are quite a few, so this next update will focus on tackling the Maddie/Ari route and any extra needed content for that.
However, the endings will not be included until the 3.1 update. It's a lot of work needed to get all that done. Specially while helping with In Heat and all these Itch shenanigans.
Maddie's old model is irrecoverably unusable, so we'll have to rely on her newest model as well. Sorry, old school Maddie fans.
Please look forward to the eventual Chapter 3 update!