itch.io

Got this through Subscribestar. I really like the concept of the game of running an NFSW pawnshop.  Pretty solid for the current state it's in. Would recommend 👍.  Favorite customer is Louisa.

Yes, itch.io is a company, but does that automatically give them a huge amount of leverage against a megacorporation, especially when said megacorporations are payment processors, no, not really. I'm shocked at the amount of people on here who are underestimating just how much power payment processors have of not only over itch.io but our lives as well. Think about it, if even STEAM, with as much money, resources, and backing that THEY have, are bending the knee, what possible chance did Itch.io have? When payment processors refuse to work, that throws a monkey wrench in everything, and they have no way to make money at all. And even if Itch.io did launch a lawsuit, unlikely they would win against the endless resources of legal teams that these payment processors have, which the payment processors don't even have to win, they can just drag it out and out until Itch.io runs out of money and has to declare bankruptcy.  Switching payment processors ain't that simple either. Shout targeted all of the most widely used and most secured ones. What's Itch.io going to use? Crypto? A payment that fluctuates more in a day than the standard 3.5% CC processing fee. Imagine selling something for 100$ and only getting 80$ by the end of the day, hard to run a business like that. And finally, call me a conspiracy theorist if you want, but I can't help but think Itch.io was threatened behind the scenes to act fast and now or get cut permanently by the payment processors. Because there is no possible way itch.io benefits from this, it only hurts them. Don't you think that if they could have given a heads-up, they would have? What possible benefit is there to abruptly shadow-banning your most profitable genre on your platform abruptly without warning, knowing it would piss off the entire community? None, unless there is the payment processor mafia breathing down their necks to act now. 

Just out of curiosity. What actual choice did itch.io have? Online payment processors are what allow the site to receive money and operate in the first place. If itch.io went against PayPal, Mastercard, and Visa, the whole website would more than likely be forced to shut down. Do you actually think itch.io has the resources to go up against megacorporations? Easy to be on your high horse until someone threatens your entire livelihood. If you want to vent your anger and disappointment, direct it towards the payment processors, not the victim.