I was publishing my game on this platform because I knew there were quite a few people here who no longer visit other sites to look for such games.
As for Itch.io itself — it annoyed me for just one single reason, but oh god, how much it annoyed me.
I'm talking about the Most Recent game category that works in some completely incomprehensible way.
For your game to appear there after an update, a planetary alignment practically needs to happen.
Specifically: the update has to be massive and it has to be reviewed by a moderator — a process that takes around a month (I waited two).
But now… I don’t know. If they don’t reverse this decision, Itch.io is in for hard times financially, and game developers might end up facing increased fees as Itch.io tries to cover its financial black hole.
I hope they’ll limit themselves to a set of rules for such content — which, technically, already exists, but Itch.io just didn’t give a damn about it until now.
If that’s the case, the platform will just get cleaned up.
But if they force creators to remove nudity altogether, then that’s straight-up f*cked.
I love how people keep blaming Christians and Boomers (Love how all the ist/ism/phobia people always double down on ageism) and far right but most of this the far left. I know, I know you people can't ever comprend that the far left can be just a as evil as the far right, like Collective shout is, they are a mixture of far left and far right women who hate any version of adult material. Even Chatgpt says is a mixture and there is no way in hell the CEO of Visa and Mastercard are any side of right, as they both embraced woke and DEI into their companies.
This is WEF/BlackRock at work, remember BlackRock CEO Larry Flink "you have to force behavior" and that's what this is doing..
Please avoid MAGA talking points like 'DEI' and 'Woke'. Besides that, the far right often pretend to be leftists. We see that with Nazis (National Socialists) TERFs (Trans-exclusive-radical-feminist), leftist-sounding slogans like "All life matters", and Zionists weaponizing antisemitism as a shield for a genocide. ChatGPT might fail at recognize such subtleties.
Also, "Far Left" is an absolute positive thing! Leftism is rooted in egalitarian principles, the idea that all human have worth through our humanity, and thus we should all be treated as equal. Basic humanity is not something which can go to far. That said, leftists can absolutely be assholes, become racist, transfobes, authoritarians, puritists, etc, but that's not far left—that is failing at being leftist, abandoning the core.
It's shocking that Collective Shout's threatening email takes precedence over consumer protection laws. I can't understand how a game can be deleted from users' libraries without any prior notice, even after they’ve already purchased it. And Itch will likely shift all responsibility for customer complaints onto the creators, while they themselves run off with the frozen funds of those creators. Truly smart of them. It makes me sick.
As much as I understand Itch... it happened day after I bought huge packs of professional soundtracks and sfx's to improve quality of my project. As well as few weeks before releasing rework of the entire game that took more than a year.
Not exactly angry as hopefuly it will be listed back but it's extremely disheartening. Many nsfw ddevs scramble for free time to learn programming, writing and a lot more, just like any other developers.
Loved and still love creating both wholesome and heartbreaking stories. And every message/ping is exciting.
Always tried and will continue trying to make people smile.
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.
It's a very crass maneuver by the staff of this site. Anyone so duplicitous and lacking in basic respect for civil liberty should be wiped off the face of the earth. Or as Lenneth Valkyrie likes to say, "Humans who cross beyond their designated boundaries invite more than death... they invite total annihilation."
This should lead to a regulation on behalf of the goverment, is not possible that a private organization which wasn't elected nor have interest on social causes have the power to censorship what can the people of the world play or can't. So american gamers should give a battle against these organizations which only cares what investors think or want...
Btw before all starts talking about VISA and Mastercard and Paypal having a monopoly. The only reason they have a monopoly is because of KYC and AML that the GOVERNMENT has mandated. So they would NOT have a monopoly if it was not for the government. This is all big governments fault. Please don't ask for more regulation, we need LESS and we would not have this problem.
Let's be a little realistic, please. KYC and AML are not going away. Regulations and laws in general are here to stay.
What might be possible is to force payment processors to be neutral, so USA citizens should contact Congress.
I would suggest to all here that you contact your representatives if your in the US and voice your concern to them regarding Visa and Mastercards ability to prevent people from buying what they want which isn't illegal. This is the way we beat them since if their ability to block people from paying for things is made illegal we permanently take away the door groups like this keep using. Groups like this are paper tigers and if folks push back they will crumble.
I will deleted my account soon, and look for alternatives, maybe even self hosting. Already wiped all my info and game from here, even though it was not a porn game, there was nudity like in gta or baldurs gate, you know, normal nudity for normal people. Hopefully Steam and GoG will not cave as hard as Itch did. Good luck everyone
