Comment on 17k+ indexed adult games from itch.io on goony.dev
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So how exactly do we buy them if the payment process doesn’t allow this. Also the one game I pic said I get Sream key. So is the games still available on said platforms just not searchable, or can we still download stand alone.
HilichurlJack@lemmynsfw.com 2 days ago
They don’t even see the games behind the transactions they’re processing, so you can just buy as usual. Steam and Itch reacted differently to the complains they got: Steam deleted only content corresponding to particular tags (incest, noncon, etc), while Itch simply hidden all NSFW games from their catalogue. It is speculated the reason behind this is that Steam has very thorough curation and moderation and thus they know exactly what they have on their platform and they can take down exactly the games corresponding to complains while Itch largely relies on self-tagging by developers which is quite arbitrary and doesn’t necessary contain certain tags even if those things are present in game. So Itch would need to perform full review of all NSFW games by moderators to filter out those that are disliked by payment processors. Anyway, few days ago Trump signed executive order to prohibit unlawful debanking, so it is very likely that all delisted/banned games on both Itch and Steam will get back to normal within 180 days.