What about people who already paid for the game on itch .
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Have you published this on GoG yet? There seems to be plenty of Itchy Games over there, so you'd wouldn't be lonely. And unlike here, or Steam they seemed to have weathered the Storm, so far. Also Steam bans the sale of these Games, in Germany so unless your gonna pull a Kagura Games style system sell a wholesome Game on Steam, and leave your Customers to download the Crunchy bits offsite. Your not going to be selling too many copies in Germany.
Again thankfully GoG doesn't seem to be suffering as badly here.
Seems like (For the moment), free stuff is back, but the paid content is still out of order. So with everything given, this is a pretty smart move. It will definitely put more eyes on this game, and that's no bad thing, as that was what Itch was designed to do..
I suspect like others, that once payment options get figured out, this Window of opportunity will close, and the next update will be time-locked like it always was.