Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects

• MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why did they chose to cave in, when they were fine with things before ??

  source

  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You’d have to ask them.

    source

    • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      😂😂 So one cannot speculate that they might’ve infiltrated Payment Processors

      source

      • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Infiltrated? Who said anything about infiltrated? Are you just making shit up now?

        What happened is incredibly simple.

        1. Some regressive organisations with no power other than persuasive power told payment processors to stop supporting NSFW content.
        2. Payment processors caved in to this pressure and told Steam and Itch that their current NSFW content is not allowed and to remove it.
        3. Steam and Itch, wanting to be able to keep making revenue at all, responded to this demand by removing NSFW content.

        Anyone can do 1. I could go to Visa and say “stop promoting cats, tell Steam to stop selling Stray and Little Kitty, Big City.” It’s up to Visa whether or not they consider my pressure worth responding to. If they do, Steam has to stop selling Stray and LKBC if they want to stay in business. The blame here lies with Visa for choosing to listen to me even though, in this scenario, I’m being a total fuckwit. In reality, Visa would turn around to me and say “lol no, fuck off”. (Or, more likely, ignore me entirely.)

        3 is an inevitable result if 2 occurs. If they can’t take in any money, they can’t continue selling any games. They can’t afford to pay the bills for their servers, or pay their employees, or anything. The only option is to give in.

        That leaves 2 as the variable. They decide whether to respond to the pressure or not. And they deserve the blame any time they do.

        source

        • -> View More Comments