Loads of reasons, but the two people mostly want to avoid is being doxxed. I go by an online name (obviously) and I don't really want people knowing my real name, which you'd easily be able to find with direct to you.
There's also the complications of fraud.... I'll avoid that thank you :)
In the cases where the devs have registered a business, then that's waaay more suited to them
This is the part that worries me about the direct option. How are most of us supposed to keep track of the hundreds of different withholding laws that are all over the place? I’m not really a business. Like many of the creators here, I don’t have legal and financial teams to manage records if Itch.io wouldn’t do it. There’s no way for each of us to know what’s required for every possible person who sends a few dollars along. But it’s normal to accept money for appreciated work.
