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Maybe you can find them for yourself if you're an employee of Itch.io instead of asking in a thread on one specific game where I had to scroll down for quite a while to access these comments. Kind of a stupid way of finding out which games have been de-listed, but I imagine you said that moreso because you think you have some kind of "one-up" on the people putting stuff on this platform with that line, but you don't. It just makes you and the platform (I'm presuming you work for) look lazy and deliberately cruel.

The "misinformation" is most certainly because Itch.io did pulled a bunch of games from the storefront with literally no warning, even though Itch has presented itself (at least, one account on Twitter definitely did) as a platform SPECIFICALLY FOR NSFW ARTISTS AND DEVELOPERS.

Watts (about 100)52 days ago (7 edits)

Admittedly the original version of this comment was made in error, I completely misunderstood what leafo was asking, but I'm more than willing to say that I spoke out of turn and was unnecessarily rude, but I would also say that it should go to show that I think how this was handled by Itch to be a massive blunder.

Also the first paragraph on the post above is another example of my misunderstanding why they were asking, but I'll leave that one as-is because I'm willing to both admit and show that my ego and/or pride were misplaced.

TL;DR: Said some smarmy shit and got put in my place, I'm enough of an adult to admit it.

leafoAdmin52 days ago (1 edit)

We didn’t do any code changes that would prevent people from accessing content. The reason why I’m asking for people to share instances of issues because it’s been cases of people confused about how the website works, so I want to understand where the confusion is coming from. We’ve already made a few updates to the UI in some areas to make it more clear about access in cases where pages had to be taken down. I’ve been going around to people who are making claims to get a better understanding of their situation. Hope that makes sense.

Watts (about 100)50 days ago (3 edits)

Oh yes, the changes in code are definitely the issue here, and not the whole part about "people getting de-listed from the main store even though they were following the original rules Itch had in place until they decided to change them" or anything like that.

What's gonna happen to developer projects and creators when someone with more power than Itch (like payment processors, for example) decides they don't like violent content? I'm sure Itch will stand up against them like they did for the NSFW creators, right?

Or maybe Itch will just change the policies again and decide to de-list anything with "harmful depictions of violence", and MAYBE Itch will later decide to re-list the games after enough people complain, but I doubt it since Itch has already been more than happy to throw their creators under the bus, so I can only imagine how eager the platform will be to do it again for the sake of our ever-so-benevolent financial overlords.

Frankly, I can only imagine Visa and Mastercard have been emboldened to threaten Itch again, since it cooperated so efficiently in the past, and now will be even more interested in following through with their threats specifically BECAUSE the platform decided to pull the rug out from under everyone and start dictating who gets paid and when.

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