itch.io
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Pros
- Itch.io Reindexing free adult NSFW content
- Adult Games are the only reason itch.io exists.
Cons
- The censorship and banning of games are in full swing, and have not gone anywhere. This all comes at a time when... Steam and Itch banning games from their stores.
- Itch is doing a review of all the games with certain tags, and if the games are not rape/incest they'll put the games back up. But it'll take a while to review all the affected games to determine what can stay up and what has to be perma...
- Video game purchases make up such an insignificant portion of their business that they could probably ban Steam and Itch from their transactions and it wouldn't even put a dent in their stock price.
- It's because when the initial NSFW shadowban on itch happened certain adult games that were removed wouldn't let the people that bought it download the game.
- itch just de_indexed anything with the Adult tag. In this proc as though lots of horror games or nature games also got …
Sentiment
2 positive (13%) · 2 mixed (13%) · 12 negative (75%)
Trust + time weighted score: -63% · raw score -62%
What redditors said (10 of 16)
The censorship and banning of games are in full swing, and have not gone anywhere. This all comes at a time when... Steam and Itch banning games from their stores.
Itch is doing a review of all the games with certain tags, and if the games are not rape/incest they'll put the games back up. But it'll take a while to review all the affected games to determine what can stay up and what has to be permanently removed.
Video game purchases make up such an insignificant portion of their business that they could probably ban Steam and Itch from their transactions and it wouldn't even put a dent in their stock price.
It's because when the initial NSFW shadowban on itch happened certain adult games that were removed wouldn't let the people that bought it download the game.
Itch.io Reindexing free adult NSFW content
itch just de_indexed anything with the Adult tag. In this proc as though lots of horror games or nature games also got …
I am a concerned customer about Visa’s recent efforts to censor adult content on prominent online game retailers, specifically the platforms Steam and Itch.io.
And the payment processing market is centralised enough that most targets like Steam/itch.io cannot get alternatives to avoid payment processing collapse.
Guessing you haven't found out yet lol. They've started going after NSFW things in general. Itch.io has/is already been pressured, there's a post on it somewhere
Parent context: The same feminist organisation went after itchio and now a bunch of games people PAID FOR can no longer be accessed. Reply: The same feminist organisation went after itchio and now a bunch of games people PAID FOR can no longer be accessed.
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