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itch could have stood up and posted the information and addresses for mastercard, visa, and collective shout people instead of caving and tossing the people who made them under the bus but they didn’t.

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As people are already analysing the whole situation for a while, there is a chance they got a legal letter that required them to comply, 

which would in fact make em unable to do so without getting even more scrutiny.

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So the itchio devs should have fought these companies in the court rooms then instead of throwing their users under the bus.

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There's no legal threat here. It's literally just an ultimatum. "Do this or we shut off your money".

There's nothing they can fight against, because there's no laws saying payment processors have to work with them.

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So then there's also no reason itch.io and steam were being sued if that's the case and there's no laws broken here on either side. So they could have warned everyone before hand.

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Other forms of retaliation exist.

"You do X, we shut it all down. You don't do Y, we shut it all down"

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They shouldn't have given in at all.

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Coo. Entire site's gone forever then.

Wonderful, brilliant plan.

Now, instead of wasting your anger demanding nonsense, focus that anger on the cultists who are pushing this bullshit, not the cult's victims.

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You speak like you run your very own massive site, as if you're not just like me and have never done this.

You have been going through every negative comment here towards itchio.

As I said, the entire site would not go. That's why I said to downscale it, not accept new payments, stareta ccepting donations and crypto currencies. I'm no webdev but it doesn't seem like they really had no options here.

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I'm speaking as someone who understands the absolute fucking basics of economics.

A site with zero money (which is what would happen if they could not get paid by any means, which is what would happen with zero payment processors working with them) cannot operate. Because site operations takes money.

"Accept crypto and donations" is flat out not a real solution whatsoever. I've explained why before, but to summarize: Donations cannot pay game developers as much as they've legally earned, and crypto has never been viable as an actual currency for normal transactions - outside of one (1) singular pizza over a decade ago, it's still only used for buying illegal shit (which is still the overwhelming minority of its use) and gambling.

Also "every negative comment" is like. Just threads started by two people.

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It's going to take way too much time for the legal stuff to start and finish. It's better to cave in and then use sue them. 

How very defeatist of you.