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Did they learn nothing from Tumblr

A topic by RubyOnyx created 67 days ago Views: 625 Replies: 8
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What Itch just did is more than likley going to kill them, Tumblr did the same, and look where they are now, have fun watching your service crash and burn, 

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What other choice did they have besides resisting and losing support of payment providers for all developers? I feel like the only other option would have killed them harder than you describe.

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Definitely a lot of people don't exactly realise how businesses work and that hosting a website for games isn't a charity and that there is no winning scenerio when you are forced to essentially either 
ditch part of your devs or lose ability to sell stuff at all.

o out in a blaze of glory, and be missed, or suffer the death by a thousand cuts having lost the goodwill of a significant chunk of your userbase. 

It's definitely a no-win scenario.

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I think people are being absolutely ridiculous in these threads to blame Itch for anything beyond how they initially handled it. It's unfair to suggest that Itch should have fought back on this matter, and it would have been an irresponsible move on their part. The whole website, and all of its developers who rely on it, should not be killed because Itch decided to stand up for a portion of its developers.

I have developer friends of whom this affects. I fear for what might happen to their games. I am angry that this is happening, but what good does it do to go after the people with the guns to their heads and not the people holding the guns?

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Maybe so, but still, the higest profit games on the site are NSFW

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That unfortunately doesn't change anything if they don't have a choice in the matter.

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They absolutely have a choice. But the only viable choice left is a lawsuit against a hyper-rich corporation. It's a gamble. But at this point they should sue. 

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Note that the same thing happening now has already happened with Steam. If Steam can't fight back on this, what the hell is Itch going to do???