Paid version cancelled due to itch.io policy changes


Rather sad news today. itch.io has effectively ended the sale of adult games on their platform.

The past few weeks, an email has been sent informing adult content creators that they can only sell their games on itch.io by enabling "direct payments", instead of bulk payments through itch.io, from now on. They did so without prior warning and with only a 30-day period for developers to cease payments or switching to direct payments. As all major payment processors available on itch.io (Paypal, Stripe) have clauses preventing the sale of adult content, this is not a viable option and will only result in getting my merchant account banned.

Payments are now disabled here and only the free version of the game should be available. I've delisted the paid versions of the game and I do hope the game can still be downloaded by anyone who've purchased it in the past. Updates for the paid version of the game will be available on Steam, Patreon and SubscribeStar. I will of course continue to update the free version of the game as before.

If you have any questions just let me know in the comments below and I'll try to answer them to the best of my abilities.


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in the process of starting a petition, itch need to wake up to themselves.

https://petitions.eko.org/petitions/stop-itch-io-from-punishing-adult-content-cr...

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That's a massive dick move on itch's part, it sucks that theyre doing this in general but the short and suddeness of kt adds to it. Kind kf sucks too given how much adult games are a solid and noticable section of the sites content.

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Today was the first time I've heard of this. I'm surprised there's been no official announcement by itchio about these changes. But this is big news, and it's very bad for a lot of us. 

I've posted in the community about it, to see if anyone has any good solutions: https://itch.io/t/2809361/will-adult-games-be-forced-into-direct-payments-instea...

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For those of us that paid for it, are we going to have to repurchase elsewhere like steam for example?

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I'm not sure if there's an automated way of doing this via itch.io. Could you send an email to perverteergames@gmail.com. I'll probably be able to help you further.

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Smh thanks for the update but u still post updates here when u drop new content on Patreon tho right? If not that cool i get it 

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I'll continue updating the free version of the game, including publishing devlogs about it here.

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okay thanks 

so need to support on Patreon for full version? Jw because game so awesome don't miss anything