Hi! Sorry for a long reply, I haven't visited Itch lately.
Yeah ... it's been like this since Russians got locked out of international payments after which Google Firebase locked me out of potentially-paid part of services (even though I was well within free tier). Since then I found a way to pay for international stuff, but since no one played the game, I didn't get around to fixing it.
Do you have a team to play? If so, I may up it in my priorities and try to fix it.
You need multiple people and the more - the better (original was started with 17 players if I remember correctly).