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Not really, no. The policy helps ensure people and businesses can access banking services, but it doesn’t address the cost of wire transfers. Wire fees are tied to infrastructure and payment systems, not access rules. So it wouldn’t suddenly make wires a low-cost payment option.

It's about preventing banks from denying service based on “reputation risk”. Ensuring lawful businesses can access banking, like Itch and Steam. And stopping financial institutions from “debanking” certain industries, such as MINE. So they stay out of legal porn. Nothing to do with wire transfers.

Possibly. I do think it's weird that they've been silent about this. Meanwhile GOG for example, has welcomed us with open arms. We'll just have to see what ends up happening here.

Yeah I'll just have to see. But I think that it will work out for us.

Yeah you probably didn't see the recent news about that FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson issued a very public and stern demand that these companies stop discriminating against law-abiding customers. So we're getting there.

@leafo - I am curious now that Executive Order 14331, "Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans," is currently effective and the payment processors have complied, can we get NSFW relisted?  You never brought up more about it since your post way back in August and you should have no more issues with the censorious payment processors, so we can get relisted?  My sells are down about 80-90% from what they were.

OH thanks, I see them there now.

I am working on several projects and want to have my game releases on the franchise page:

https://the-anax.itch.io/

In a certain order, instead of by release date.  In the end, I am going to want to pair certain things together and more to keep things clear, but I am ignorant and cannot figure out how to set it into an order.  I looked for a "move up" type thing, like when we are naming and uploading files, but no luck.  Can someone let me know how to organize the games I am developing?

It's completely SFW, so it's the same story, but without any NSFW and without any bad ends. That's also why it's half the price lol but I went back and rendered things and rewrote things to remove anything that was adult content.

Interesting!  Thanks again!

Thank you for that!

You need to double back to the hole that you entered. And then you need to go back to the zookeeper's lair, remember where she had the blast door in the reptile exhibit?

I don't really have one right now. When the hole MasterCard Visa PayPal thing happen back in July? It plummeted my sales on here. So I have had to kind of pivot. In my Discord in the announcements channel I do have a checklist so you can see everything I've been doing. And I'm getting close to the bottom of the checklist. Then it's actually back to Desideratum first. 

This will be the caverns hunt content on there. And then once that's done I'll be back to GN. So pretty soon things will be back to normal. But I've had to take a few months to create SFW versions of GN and DBB, among other things. So that I was able to keep a roof over my head. Payment processors are getting out of hand. But no ETA at this time.

Thank you! I absolutely intend to continue making my Anaxverse, until the day that I die! I think that I have seven finished ones, SBC is about to also be finished, and then I'm going to bounce back and forth between GN, here, and DBB. Looking forward to everything being done and moving on to cult of lust.

No promises lol  Things change during the beta here, until I get to 1.0 someday.  So, I'd assume you'd need a new start (and likely will on some future updates until it is final.)

For the last month or more, I keep getting the same 25k+ Adult Games Available - CLICK HERE things posted on my game pages.  I report them every time, but it's getting daily now.  Just figured I should make the site aware in case all my reports are not reaching a human that can put some kind of bot security in place on the site or ban anyone that types the words "25k+ Adult Games" on a message or something.  It really is getting wild.

Oh, good, I didn't there was an issue.  And thanks for your service!

I should add, why I asked was because I didn't know if I keep them on the page with my paid games, if that means since it will have a free demo (not even sure if I can set the demo to free on the same page as content set to paid), but I was asking would it get listed if it is on a page also with paid content.

So, in case, based on how you are kind of coming off, let me make sure you understand, I am not ignoring your advice or typing any of this with any kind of vitriol or meaning to come off any anything less than grateful to you, but after 12 hours looking into this I am learning a lot.  It sent me all over the place, but the more I have learned the more it looks like setting a separate page as a demo appears to be the cleanest and most likely to get people to my paid games (which makes money for Itch too, I've paid thousands of dollars over the years, I could have kept, and chose not to do so as an honorable person).

I asked in a few discords as well with other content creators, and they have also done this, as Itch itself, in its public statements about NSFW seemed to literally be asking us to do/implying for us to make things for free to get relisted.  When I first asked this today, I had only started looking into it.

No reason to be cheeky (I help pay your salary, I'm not a leech on the site), I obviously meant which ones would I (and hundreds if not tens of thousands of others) be breaking is what I meant.

In fact after doing even more research, you, yourself say I can do it either way.  So I will choose a project page for the demos.

https://itch.io/t/1564349/how-to-handle-game-demos

So, looks ok.

Not to mention I have had my two Faction demo versions on itch for many years now.

Actually, never mind, I will go ahead and make a separate page.  I just had the idea of going to the main Itch.io page and typing "Demo" and yeah it looks like all creators do the demos separate from their game's main page (SFW or NSFW).  I figured this was how to do it.

What guidelines?  I don't follow.

I thought that was the whole point. Didn't itch want us to do that? Like they want us to go ahead and make the free stuff so that it can show up indexed correct? Or am I missing something?

My games are currently delisted for being awesomely adult, I decided to create demos of them.  I was told FREE demos would be listed even with NSFW content.  My question is, I need to make a whole new page, with links to the real game, right?  Like the demos for my games will be on their own separate pages and not free files on my main games' pages?

Yeah I check every day for an update here just in case. Usually I sell my games everyday, but I've had a 10-day stretch last month where I didn't sell any. That's never happened since I've been on itch.  I don't know how long it's going to take them but it's definitely affecting my life. I think I'm going to end up losing this apartment. I never even thought this was a possibility.

I can only speak for myself, but my game was making me about $1,000 a month and I've sold $60 this past month. So, I think everybody is really scared right now especially because they're saying that PayPal is banning people's accounts for purchasing NSFW games here. Which is just a whole another level of crazy dystopian. So yeah my itch, is essentially, dead. 

I check the main blog every single day in the hopes that itch is going to announce that all of our games have been re-listed and that there's a new payment processor or something. But no luck yet, it's abysmal.  I don't want to discourage you from uploading your game obviously, but you may not really sell very much right now until people can dispel whether or not PayPal is actually deleting entire accounts.

Sounds good! I actually talked to Mars just a couple hours ago, and he's definitely getting closer. I'd say he's about 60%, maybe even 70%, close to getting everything I created into the code where I need it. So it is coming. I'll tag everybody in my Discord when it starts trickling.

It's possible that the trickle down will start, you know that it'll go to Patreon, which means yeah in September it would be reaching itch. I actually talked to my programmer earlier today and he's been making really good progress the past two or three days. It's definitely giving me some hope. But I don't have anything solid yet to give like a date.

I'll keep that in mind, it is possible that my programmer fan that helps me will have some extra time and he might be able to get it done before I'm finished with all the art. If he does I will just keep adding the commissioned artwork and writing until it's completely finished while it's doing the trickle down through Patreon. So by the time it reaches itch it should be probably completely done.

Thanks, I've got a lot of information in my Discord about the subject along with many other links if it's of any help to you.

If you check in my Discord under the announcements channel, you can see what I'm working on and I updated as I complete tasks. But right now I'm working on Giggle night, it is the biggest update I've ever done to any game. This is a huge update, and once it's done I'll hop back over to DBB. So nothing for this game at the moment to announce.

- EDIT - So, sure to payment processors being egregiously evil, I have had to pivot in a bid to try and bring in customers.  Once my NSFW games were delisted here, I have lost almost 50% of my income!  So, I am quickly making SFW versions of GN and D:BB.  I don't think it will take a huge amount of time, I am moving along quickly, but in case someone saw this, I wanted to keep them up to date.  Don't forget to hang out in my Discord, if you want to keep up in real-time!

Oh yeah definitely I suggest hanging out in Discord, in my announcement channel I actually wrote an entire checklist so people could watch the progress in real time. I am still working on it everyday but it really is just gigantic. I have never, and I will never, make a release that is this large at once over again. So now I'm hoping for an August or September release. But it's coming, and when it gets here it's about the size of three usual updates in one lol

Oh okay! Yeah you'll find them downloadable in the Discord. You just have to make sure on Patreon that you link your Patreon and Discord. And then the bot should open the right channel to you. Thanks for your support!

I do not have a bundle, someday I might do something like that, you know, once the games are finished.  Technically if you just want to support me one time on Patreon, you can do the lowest tier which is $10 and you'd be able to play the most up-to-date versions of all three games. However, that would only be for this month. You know like next update you wouldn't have access to, you know unless you patroned it again. But it's up to you how you want to go about it.

I'd like it to be out no later than July-ish.

Yeah all of the SBC content is actually made, so I mean it's just sitting there. So as soon as GN has its release, Mars is going to be working on SBC for me, I'll already be moving back to DBB.   So after this gigantic and I mean this is a huge biggest GN release I've ever done content wise, once it's out of the way, I'll finally be back to my old schedule from before my divorce where I just bounce between GN and DBB with a new release hopefully every month or two.

I don't have an exact date yet, if you hang out in Discord you'll see what I'm working on right now, which is the next Giggle Night (Trixie from SBCs game).  I think my programming fan that helps me, Mars, plans on getting the 1.0. done after I finish up with this.  I'm eager to have this game done because that will be I think my 7th finished game? Maybe 8th?  Anyway, getting closer!

Thanks! I'm the kind of man that lands on his feet and just keeps going. So I ain't going to let it stop me from making my games and living my life. But yeah, I'm looking forward to it too! I just wish I could make all of this 10 times faster or more. I have so much to share and so much to create, so many plans and so many desires!  My passion is endless!

I have been showing it off in the Spoilers channel on Discord, but moving along.  I ran a Patreon poll for this mission, because of how it is set up, asking if people would enjoy playing as a demented version of Trixie, (also being open and transparent that it would add 3 weeks to production) and 90% or more voted for it.  So, I am working on a lot of scenes.  In this, the Insanity Institute, there is a LOT of interactivity between Trixie and the captive women.  But, as always, I make progress every single day!  I will get it done ASAP, but keep in mind that this is a GIANT UPDATE.

I say that because I wound up selling 12 or 13 commissions too!  So there will be not just several Bad Ends from the level, but also, a dozen commissioned BE's which are much longer of course.  However, moving forward all updates will be allowed only a maximum of 4 commissions.  That was when my wife had divorced me and I was moving into new apartments and needed a money infusion, so I will try to avoid selling so many at once, ever again. lol