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Can't buy anything except by going through PayPal

A topic by MrSandwichCookies5764 created 4 days ago Views: 116 Replies: 2
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Do you not still support direct credit card payments?  It seems like a lot of stuff available for sale can only be bought through PayPal, which is a non-starter.  You couldn't pay me to deal with that company again.  I used to see this for occasional titles, but now, it seems to be a lot more widespread, and it basically invalidates Itch as a software distribution platform.

I'm assuming this has something to do with the mass censorship campaign you've become engaged in at the behest of your payment processor?  If so, then you need to seriously get your act together and find a payment processor that isn't trying to strong-arm you.  The current state of your platform is seriously bad, and users are leaving.

There are plenty of payment processors that don't do stuff like that.  There are literally companies that specialize in handling payments for adult content and similar specifically because so many of the major players have turned into abusive a**holes.  Find a payment processor that supports your specific business model, and by that I mean your *entire* business model.  Trying to change your business model to suit a payment processor just doesn't work, and can only lead to serious problems in the short and long term.

Actually, itch.io does support credit card payments.

But they allow developers to also collect the funds directly i.e. not use itch.io's payment services.

 In those cases, you will mostly find only the PayPal option, and you should probably paste your complaint in the respective game or asset's comment section (it's not within itch.io's control).

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