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Clarification on collecting payment for games with adult content

A topic by Blaze Epic created Sep 19, 2019 Views: 1,403 Replies: 2
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Please do forgive me if this has been covered somewhere already and I'm too stupid to figure that out, but I'm wondering if collecting payment for games with sexual content consists of nothing more than setting my payout mode to "Collected by itch.io, paid later". My main reason for wondering about this is that, from what I understand, PayPal doesn't allow sellers to collect payment for games with sexual content. If there's another procedure other than having itch.io collect payments beforehand, please do let me know.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Admin(+2)

It's your responsibility to abide by payment provider rules when enabling a payment processor. Having your payments go through itch.io does not give you any special permissions. If we get a notification from a processor about content hosted on our platform then we will have to comply with their request.

That said, the payment processor terms for video games with adult themes is vague and a gray area. We can't really offer you any specific guidance about them related to whatever content you're selling. In our experience, mature video game content has not triggered any issues. But we can't make any guarantees about it, since it's not really our decision to make.

Thanks

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