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ITCH.IO Frozen.
Well, it's here. The payment processors are pushing for their next purge, and this is a big one. Itch.io has made it impossible to find our games via search. Visa and Mastercard have forced them to do this. All NSFW games and content is frozen on their site.
None of this affects CriticalBliss's finances. ReDaze should still come out - but it does affect mine. I was living off of steam and itch.io's money so I could put all of this into Ginger's Paradise. I'm still on steam and wasn't caught in that purge, and hopefully should stay so. Also the itch.io situation should hopefully be temporary. Still, that is where I made my living, and while I have savings, they were supposed to be for the VA fund. I will have to go low power on this for a while and decide what I want to do soon. Also Ginger's Paradise is doing pretty well - we have most of the tutorial level set up and some music being made. However, I'm not sure I'll have the finances to continue with anything in the long run.
If Redaze's demo comes out this year I'll be fine. I was willing to sell my house if I had to in order to put out my game, but if the money is completely turned off there's no point in even making anything. I won't be able to pay my staff. If the purge also hits subscribestar, I'll be solely dependent on steam revenue to survive. If that's gone, I just am not allowed to make money because two credit card companies say so.
You can still find all our games here:
https://outbreakgames.itch.io/
This is hitting everyone in the NSFW space right now. Please be kind to everyone. Supporting me on subscribestar right now means I'm not draining the money I've reserved for the VA's, so every bit of support is important. I will have to decide how I want to cut back on expenses. Hopefully this will all blow over soon.
Well, it's here. The payment processors are pushing for their next purge, and this is a big one. Itch.io has made it impossible to find our games via search. Visa and Mastercard have forced them to do this. All NSFW games and content is frozen on their site.
None of this affects CriticalBliss's finances. ReDaze should still come out - but it does affect mine. I was living off of steam and itch.io's money so I could put all of this into Ginger's Paradise. I'm still on steam and wasn't caught in that purge, and hopefully should stay so. Also the itch.io situation should hopefully be temporary. Still, that is where I made my living, and while I have savings, they were supposed to be for the VA fund. I will have to go low power on this for a while and decide what I want to do soon. Also Ginger's Paradise is doing pretty well - we have most of the tutorial level set up and some music being made. However, I'm not sure I'll have the finances to continue with anything in the long run.
If Redaze's demo comes out this year I'll be fine. I was willing to sell my house if I had to in order to put out my game, but if the money is completely turned off there's no point in even making anything. I won't be able to pay my staff. If the purge also hits subscribestar, I'll be solely dependent on steam revenue to survive. If that's gone, I just am not allowed to make money because two credit card companies say so.
You can still find all our games here:
https://outbreakgames.itch.io/
This is hitting everyone in the NSFW space right now. Please be kind to everyone. Supporting me on subscribestar right now means I'm not draining the money I've reserved for the VA's, so every bit of support is important. I will have to decide how I want to cut back on expenses. Hopefully this will all blow over soon.
I bumped up my SubscribeStar tier in case that helps.
Thank you! I appreciate it.
They really need to be prohibited from doing this kind of "We've decided we don't like x content" stuff. But, that would likely take an entity larger than the payment processors to do. Maybe steam could push back but, I'm not even sure they can.
Steam is proving that's not the case. That said, they haven't gone after my content there.
Firstly, no payment processor should have any power over how the people spent their money. This includes content that are questionable at best but not illegal under law. Secondly, there is a bill in congress being reviewed right now that could hopefully remedy this situation.
We'll see how it goes.
Hopefully its just a small blip and a temporary problem that gets overturned. Best of luck to you and yours dude.
If anyone here would like to petition the payment processors to change their decision, this is a good place to start:
https://stop-paypros.neocities.org/
I support this!