Hi leafo, just wanted to say thanks to you and the itch staff for your hard work. I know this is not what any of you wanted. All the posts in General Discussions are really out of line and I think you deserve some support. You got through that one domain shutdown by Funko and you can get through this, stay strong! Don't be discouraged by those folk who seem to be foaming at the mouth, there are still many who support you.
Support them for what? Them and the monopolistic payment processors bending the knee to a religious fundamentalist harassment group that glazed the movie 'Cuties'? This is overstepping every fucking boundary in existence and is stabbing the platform's users in the back. And just who gets to decide what is and isn't acceptable, huh?! How long until these mingebags demand the removal of all mentions to the gays because they deem it to be inappropriate for children?
The anger here is completely justified, but also completely misdirected. The fear that activist groups will use this as precedent to target all LGBTQ games and other stuff they don't like, instead of just nsfw, is legitimate. Don't get me wrong I completely understand that and I'm against what happened.
However it's the payment processor and activist groups who overstepped boundaries here. Do you really think itch has a choice? Instead of using the community at itch to set up the required collective action and step up to megacorporations, there are people who are sending death threats and threats of lawsuits at the staff of a tiny reseller that doesn't even earn 0.01% of what Steam does. This is like screaming at a soldier who is defending you against a giant army that he should defend you better after he got pierced by a thousand bullets.
Think about what happens when itch goes against visa, mastercard and paypal. Itch is now unable to receive payments, itch maybe starts a lawsuit, the lawsuit takes 5-10 years because the corpos can afford it and know it works, itch goes under within the first year. Or worse it goes down within a week because the payment can pressure webhosts if they want. Not a great solution for anyone.
Honestly coward aproach, then again not compiling will mean the page closing prob for good so not like you could do anything else without risking all, while i hate your desition into complying i can see why you did and you are not the ones to blame... i hate their "holy crusade " i wish Itch io will eventually find a way to unleash themselves as for me closing all paypal accounts even if it means not beinga ble to support people directly.
Hi ! I’d just like to ask for something little…Could you please confirm that after this review process, it will remain possible to upload, host, buy and download erotic videogames ? As long as they dont contain illegal themes of course.
I mean, illegal according to law. Not group of shouting idiots and duopoly playing gatekeeper