Article on this here: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchio-are-seeking-out-new-payment-processors-w...
Good article.
There are not that many payment processors and they need something that has small fees, so it can be used for games that are $ 2.
I would prefer a wallet based system, as seen on other platforms. So you would pay Itch a bigger sume that could in turn be used for micro transactions. One transaction, instead of several. Itch does not even have a shopping basket, so buying two items from the same developer costs two times the base fee plus percentage, instead of one time the base fee plus percentage.
This is just about the best outcomes we possibly could have asked for, if, in fact they see it through.
Itch.io is on the right track. Just hope they lock down the new payment processor as quickly as possible so they can get creators back in business. The way they've handled this so far hasn't been ideal, but if they move forward with getting in a payment processor who values creative freedom, I'll be willing to forgive this whole thing and keep my work on Itch like I always have.
I don't owe it to ANY company all-too-happy to take my money to support them or give them the benefit of the doubt when they turn around and try to tell me how I can spend it, and frankly this was the one and ONLY response they deserve until they resolve this issue.
It's not a witch hunt, it's consumer advocacy, and the sooner the folks expecting people to play nice for corporations like they're people with feelings and not businesses attempting to extract the money from our pockets in exchange for promised goods and services the better off we'll be as a society.
People are already complaining towards the Payment Processors and Visa and Mastercard both have their stocks in the toilet.
However, with Itch moving on to a better Payment Processor, it doesn't particularly matter to us creators or audiences how stupid the old payment processors are being.
The backlash at Itch has forced them to take responsibility. This energy was spent exactly where it should have been, and we are already beginning to see the fruits of that effort.
Don't let up. Take Itch to task and demand that they find a Payment Processor who can meet the needs of all its creators.
Don't let the momentum die :
Tell MasterCard, Visa & Activist Groups: Stop Controlling What We Can Watch, Read, or Play https://chng.it/b2pMbsLvdg
Mastercard: Sex work is work. End your unjust policy https://action.aclu.org/petition/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unjust-policy
UK: The scope of the Online Safety act is far broader & restrictive than is necessary in a free society. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
Also for USA citizens it is important to contact Congress.
I doubt actual administration reads here, so I guess https://itch.io/support is your best way.
I agree; but it's better than dealing with the shit show they are pushing on us.
Visa and MasterCard that is, not Itch.
Even then, I think Collective Farts(Shout) is going to become a fall guy as the bitch or bitches who need to be drawn and quartered may get in the Escape Pod as it goes down to continue to try their censorship work elsewhere like with the USA's 'KOSA' and 'Screen' bullshit laws.
Itch needs to reclaim it's independence, Newgrounds needs to push itself to join the fray and I need an artist willing to draw a meme of the KOSA where they replace the Kids and Safety of that act with: "Kill Online Speech Act" as that is what I'm calling it... And it needs to be adopted to make it stick as it's far more damning and TRUTHFUL what is REALLY is.