Alright so I tried to re install this game called futaken valley (I usually delete games and re install them) but it says it's been deleted along with it's creator, does anyone know why he got banned?
Mofu also has a free subscribestar, Most of mofu's links are in the pixiv fanbox Ayasenanko sent the link of, but the subscribestar is not. Here it is: https://subscribestar.adult/mof
Mofu, please take a rest before continuing to develop this, situations like this tend to end in a bitter and mostly bad notes, so at least give yourself some time to rest rethink and above all, to not lose neither faith in others nor in yourself, so don't worry too much about deadlines right now and just take a break, k?
Patreon needs to go with their arbitrary handling and itch seriously needs to reevaluate their reporting and banning system. (And subscribestar needs to polish their interface to take down patreon ;-)
Patreon and itch want to have that adult cake and eat it too, but they do not support devs against malicous attacks like what happened here. Mofu has over 10k followers. One would think that a competent human dealt with the allegations, but apparantly not. Imagine what smallers devs have to face. Or are we to believe that all the followers and other players played illegal content all this time without reporting it?!
That we are talking about pixel art smut makes it even worse. It is pixels. To me this is a combination of virtue signalling and not wanting to deal with complaints by using automation. So, don't, but do not make it possible to auto-ban devs, because there more than enough harrassers and trolls out there targeting devs.
Oh and if it was not clear, the itch page is back. But mofu consideres leaving.
I for one are here because of the adult games, as I do not want to do that on steam or look on any shady sites. I migrated from nutaku, they only have finished games and not that many. I actually only knew about itch's existence because of adult games (one game was available on both platforms). The non adult games I played are a byproduct, while I am here, there are some nice once, of course. If you go to browse and sort by top sellers while having adult games active, there are 36 games on page 1. Only 9 of them are not adult...
lol. But they do have them and they do get paid. Itch should jump on that and steal those customers away. As you pointed out, there are good hentai games on itch and many bad ones on steam (not that itch would not have those bad games as well ;-) And as I can testify, itch is not very well known.
If you look at some adult games, many of them here are trying to get to steam or are already there. It is a big market and publishing on itch only gives a trickle of exposure in comparison. Of course they might still publish a "public" version or pay what you want version and only sell the privilege of having the higher version number of the game a month early.
I do not understand.
But the game has been suspended. Again.
Itch should make up their mind. Be a happy home for indie devs or listen to harrassment and fake reports.
At this point I conclude that they do not work on this, but let an poorly trained AI handle it and staff does not actually have a look at cases. Just pressing ban, suspend, deindex and such, so there be less reports coming in.
Or how do they explain the continuation of real malicous profiles that post stolen games/malware, that are indexed within hours and are still indexed after months. Despite them being reported with links to original work. I explain it, that there was not enough reports, so their AI did not take action. Because no human with any kind of experience had a look at those. Same with poor harrassed mofu. A flat chest chibi pixel figurine is not a minor, it is pixels, in poor resolution. But if someone mass fake reports it as a minor, they apparantly listen.
R-59565, up for 3 months, quarantined, still downloadable. "Creator" is indexed.
R-71648, the account has 4 stolen things uploaded and now is almost 3 months old. The ticket is about the newest game that is up for two weeks now. Not quarantiend, regularly downloadable. One of the 4 items is in quarantine. This one is indexed, while legit devs cry in community for waiting months to get indexed, or because they were deindexed.
R-69768, reported a month ago. 3 stolen games on the fake account and it even has name your own price active now. They link to a patreon of the same name that does different games. Only one of the games is qurantined, the rest downloadable, and one even pay-able.
R-72021, also with name your own price active wich is very worrying. They do link to the original creator, where the game costs 13 bucks. It is here for "free"? The AI/itch staff must be quite gullible.
R-72354, that one is new, but they post games of two different creators and have payment active.
R-72351, one of the best attempts I have seen so far. But it is not the creator. It just does not fit. I had a look at their patreon. Also payment active. I see evolution, but also similarities to the other reported scam attempts. And with the payments active, the scammed one seems to be itch as well. Or maybe they just use the direct payout method. Giving control away has it's drawbacks. You can't freeze the moeny.
I have bad news for you itch. Your security screening has been thoroughly breached. The evil guys now can activate payments for their pirated games (or malware, whatever it is, it is not the original creators doing this). And of course the "righteous" can fake report games into oblivion.
You do not react to genuine reports, but act on spamming of harassers. Shame on you! Maybe I need to fake report those illict pages for minor content? You do seem to listen to this, regardless of accuracy.
Even if you do not like it, require a money deposit already for adult games and harden those games against harassments. And consider non optional revenue sharing for adult games. Better to have a stable but securly financed environment, than no environment at all. It is ridiculous. There are a dozen money collection companies, but itch can't replicate what they do. Instead of making cash from the business, they drive the business away, alienate players, make developers live in fear, while not being able to deal with people abusing the system.
You do allow considerable strife and anguish to hit developers, instead of giving those indie devs a home. This makes me sad.