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itch.io now seemingly affected by same payment processor rules as Steam (bsky.app)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by byzxor@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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so itchio has shadowbanned any games tagged with 'nsfw', 'adult', or 'erotic' so they don't show up in searches, and several devs have reported that their r18 games have been removed from the site with no warning

So itch.io/games/nsfw still shows a few thousand titles, but using traditional adult tags to search within there shows 'no titles'. (src)

And @itch.io is now denying payouts to the creators affected by the takedowns with no notice

"Accounts that are in violation of our terms are not elligible for payouts" (src)

There's quite a lot of examples of these in various threads now.

It seems to get a bit weird though with some games still appearing on steam.

Also worth noting: Jenny Jiao Hsia's autobiographical opus Consume Me, which won the Grand Prize at this year's Independent Games Festival along with a few other awards, is also delisted in itch search (but also has a searchable Steam listing) (src)

itch.io has been pretty open and transparent for their entire existence afaik and dropping all this without warning feels pretty bad

ETA: Here's the official announcement

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[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 10 points 1 week ago

Been hearing rumors that the stuff didn't just get delisted, some got removed entirely from the site, including from customer libraries that had paid for it with no refunds

And of course, there's LGBTQ+ stuff getting flagged as porn because that's the ultimate goal of each and every one of these attacks...

Itch.io had been very good for many, many years, and with their handling of this, in a single day they're killing any good will they had accumulated all this time....