Major issue. Itch will suffer terribly from this, given its a pro-indie marketplace for creative, experimental works. This sudden intrusion, especially done so without warning and having bought games be pulled (afaik) and having creators' lifelines be denied like this is against that status and reliablity mentioned. I know there isn't much the workers of Itch can do, but them possibly being puppeteered (i think so) like this is rather painful. Itch is an important resort for games, especially regarding the current state of AAA games, enshittification, and corporate-mentality applied in gaming today. Not that this will help with the motive behind here, f95 and dlsite are more specified for adult games with the former being a sharing/piracy focused forum- F95 turning into a more reliant platform and an archive is rather tragicomic, but it makes sense under these conditions... If itch fails its artists, then what will the site do? This site is the collective of all users here, any adversarial act done against will be... rather crappy tbh
tl;dr: Itch is shooting themselves in the foot, most likely forced so
More accessible yet fragmented forums and sites invalidate the motives
Artists and customers are getting hurt, which itch not just depends on but IS, as an indie platform
This is against itch's philosophy and use case, which will scar the site
Anti-consumerism is shite- itch was the chosen one, they were meant to destroy it not join it
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