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Well, for the time bieng, one cannot sell on itch, given certain circumstances, but that does not mean you cannot be on itch. You all realize this, do you not?

All those devs being aproved by Patreon and even Steam, you can still promote your other platforms, as you could before. You do realize, this is not usually possible on other platforms. While often frustrating in communication, Itch is a great place! Casually linking to your 7 other outlets, where the price might be less, try that on Steam. Itch even lets you integrate patreon in your profile; i hope they get some kind of affiliate linking bonus back from patreon.

So if you have paid only content, put a demo version here. Explain that you can only make sales via those other platforms for the time being. But please do not shit on itch for giving you free hosting. Banning adult content looks differnt.  

I do not approve of devs using 0% share. If I could see that devs are sharing none, I might even avoid paying them more, or at all, because it is not only the dev that I would want to pay more, it is the platform too. But if the dev is not giving revenue, my intended donation to itch would be 0.

Even with general policy of   free choseable revenue share, there can be exceptions or additional features . One would be mandatory minimum for adult stuff, as it creates more maintenance because of all those fundamentalists that report stuff that is against their morals. Or dealing differntly with overpayments. Or my favorite, add a bonus tip to itch button in payment, similar to concept of Humblebundle.

My concern is, that itch might drop certain features for real, like indie adult stuff, if it is no longer sustainable - and juding from comments here, many devs set sharing to 0 :-(

I had a look at how a hardcore site does it. They take about 50% and there is a minimum payout, like 100 bucks or more. Sounds familiar to that adult gaming site mentioned above.

Typical services used are ePayService, Paxum, Local Wires, Directa24, ACH, Direct Payments, EU Wire Transfer and International Wire Transfer.

So maybe it would be a possibility to offer an additional method that is fixed revenue sharing but has different payout method, for those that cannot use the existing ones. imho it is not helping to have devs  be here and just have them point to other site that does do take big cut. Better take big cut on itch, where people can overpay. There are people that refuse to pay patreon or steam out of principle.