Posted April 28, 2023 by DarkExecutor
Dear customers!
It seems that this platform is not happy to host content related to NSFW games, there are dozens of developers being banned with official explanations like this right now: https://itch.io/post/7697194
Unfortunately, it doesn’t explain too much and there are rumors that some of these developers lost access not only to itch.io but to their payment processors' accounts, too (Paypal/Stripe/Payoneer). It means that selling an NSFW game here endangers my account on Itch and my campaign on Patreon at the same time.
I can’t afford this kind of risk, especially when I have the second game being prepared for public demo release and a new update to this game being prepared, too.
I disabled sales of the paid version of the game here and backed up the data of people who purchased the game. I’m in talks with two game publishers on Steam right now about trying to publish the game there. If I manage to get published on Steam, I will start handing out the activation keys to people who bought the game on Itch before. Your digital ownership of the game copy is my responsibility.
I established a folder on MEGA with the latest paid version of this game for existing customers, if you need access to it urgently, I can send an invitation for it. You can reach me on:
Please, provide an email used for the game purchase on Itch as verification of your purchase when you will write to me about getting your access because this is the only way how I can verify that you purchased the game on Itch.
As for the account of this game on Itch, it will stay for now and I will see what to do with it later when all payouts will be done by Itch to me. Maybe it will be closed, or maybe it will remain to host a public demo, I don’t know.
We, developers, are not to blame for this issue, the responsibility lies solely on the itch platform and payment processors. I will continue to develop the game anyway.
Sincerely yours,
Dark Executor