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itch.io is removing games from the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality after purchase!

A topic by MarkoH01 created Aug 12, 2020 Views: 1,575 Replies: 4
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It has come to my attention that along with Neversong (a game that obviously never was intended to be part of the bundle from the devs/publishers side) itch.io had removed several other games from said bundle and afaik without any explanation. The games I am talking about are:

Johann Weiss, Lily Seed, Haul and Invasion.

The person who told me about it also tried to contact itch.io to ask what happened but got ignored completely. So I won't even bother to try to contact support and instead will post this in public. Maybe somebody here has the answer what happened with those games (I already contacted the dev of Johann Weiss and asked him - answer is pending) or itch.io steps in and explains what happened. Legally one could consider it theft to take something away aftter purchasing (and in this case you cannot expect to download everything on the first day) but since this is a special case I might even accept that some games might have been included that never were intended to be included (not the case with Johann Weiss since I still could find the post which at least looks legit) however at least we should be given an explanation and a note that it happened and why it happened.

Have those games been fully taken off of itch.io? Haul and Invasion doesn't show up in search results so I wonder if that's the issue...?

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This is so annoying!! Bought the bundle 50% for Neversong and didn't install it because i was in school and now  I don't own it.. dunno what happened

this is odd, Neversong doesn't exist in itch.io and i even check the official website to see where it might be. The game is exclusive to Steam only, so maybe someone stole the game and uploaded to itch.io thus leading to other possible scammers doing the same thing. This could be why it as remove.

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Like I said, what happened with Neversong was clear. Someone else used a similar nickname and put the game in the list of those to be included. At this time there was an itch.io page available - so it was in fact to puchase on itch.io. But I wasn't wondering what happened with this game since the publisher himself explained the error. I was more wondering about the other games I mentioned and at least in teh case of Johann Weiss I was able to talk with the dev and he did not understand why it has been removed as well.