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I looked for news about it and couldn't find anything. What's going on?

According to Turkiye Today, a law would require digital game services to have an office and reps in Turkiye or have their bandwidth reduced by 90%.

In the face of that, Itch is probably the least capable of any distribution site to be able to do anything. This is ultimately a very minor site run by, comparatively, few people.

https://www.turkiyetoday.com/nation/steam-epic-face-90-access-restrictions-under-turkish-platform-regulations-3213799?s=1

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Eldwood2 days ago

Does 90% bandwidth throttling really matter for itch? This is a platform for small indie games, not 60GB AAA slop.

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TimelineMan2 days ago

Well, if I use my download speed of about 500 megabits, that brings it down to 50, which is about 6 megabytes per second. So yeah, most games on Itch would still have reasonable download times.

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Tenkarider2 days ago(+1)

Sounds like a cute way to say they banned videogames, except tiny indies?

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Ageltha1 day ago

unfortunately, yes :/

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redonihunter18 hours ago

Actually, that proposed law is especially a ban on tiny indie titles. They lack the money to get an official age rating.

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