To be honest, it really doesn't affect us that much. Our presence on Itch (and frankly our overall fanbase) is very tiny, so we aren't actually losing anything. I really just posted this to help people know where to find us if we get nuked. That said, our stuff has been reposted by players to a whole bunch of sites and since our email is in the game, it's not like we are going to fall off the map if we get ghosted here. I will miss the game page layout of this place though. Everything is nice and crispy looking, and it was fun changing the colors and backgrounds.
Itch did unblock downloads as far as I have heard from followers, so maybe we passed their shit test. Or maybe they're just raising our hopes so it will be more satisfying when they squash us for good. lol
The guys who have thousands of followers they built over several years though, I can only imagine how devastating a loss that is for them. Especially some guys actually are doing it for their job and depend on the money. So this is like getting laid off if they don't have paid subscribers.