When I found out about the Itch.io shadowban, I immediately came rushing here! it's wild to see that, even if you search Cruel Serenade on the search bar, the game does not show at all. "NSFW" tag also does not do much.
May I ask if you have a plan in mind regarding this? besides word of mouth, there won't be many ways for such games to reach new players. Considering your game's topics, I'm afraid the review process doesn't sound very promising... It's a really tough spot for all of you, because you can't really escape payment processors wherever you are, which are the main problem.
I'm following another game which is having the same problem and I'll be sure to pass it along to you if they come up with an idea! Hopefully there will be a place to welcome all these forsaken games... xd
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Ey Dino. I go over this more in my new post, but yeah, the effect isn't just in the initial loss of income. The whole point of Itch was network effect, and that will alllll go away now. I have an FA, and I suppose I could commission some stuff occasionally and get it up on e6 to get the word out, but it's grim. Best strat for now is that I'm hoping to convince enough people to "pre-buy" the game on Substar to secure development, at least for chapter 3. But it's an enormous blow to momentum: 4k followers here, potentially just gone. Follow over on FA if you aren't already, no telling how long this page will remain up: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/bitshift/.