it was top 1 most selling game for a couple of days, that's also precisely when they informed me of the decision. it's frustrating but it is what it is ;v;
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They are driving fast in direction of a wall, if they continue like this. I hope they recover; I like itch more than patreon or steam. One can also sort browse by top sellers. The non adult games are a minority in the top pages. They also de-index adult devs on a whim or do not index them for a month. But simultanious have fake accounts indexed within hours of account creation and let them be for months, even though they are reported for their fake profile and stolen games/malware.
My theory is, that they do not let humans handle this, but have a badly programmed algorithm. If a certain amount of reports come in, a game gets quarantined, deindexed, switched to direct payout or even banned, depending on key words. You have a whopping 3k followers. They banned Mofu for a week, and he has 14k followers. This is of course speculation, but when you were on top, you also got more attention and not all attention is good. There are insane bigots with nothing better to do than reporting all those evil pixel smut. I read posts in open community of such virtue signallers.
They should have a look how professionals do this. This is turning into a sinking ship by the day.
(Oh, and it seems they fell again for the harrasser that bullies mofu, as I just noticed. He is deindexed and the files are suspended. I am quite pissed off by their handling the adult gaming situation.)