Submitted 3 weeks ago by Pro@programming.dev to gaming@beehaw.org
https://spilled.gg/itch-io-blocks-adult-game-creator-profiles-uk-users-keeping-games-accessible/
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36433609
- Itch.io now blocks UK users from viewing NSFW game creator profiles, though some individual adult games remain accessible after age verification.
- The restrictions started in August and align with the UK’s Online Safety Act requiring stricter age checks for adult content.
- Developers lose UK discoverability while players can’t browse creator catalogs, forcing them to rely on direct links shared elsewhere.
Thank goodness that telling people they cannot have something means that they immediately comply rather than doing everything in their power to circumvent the obstacles you put in front of them.
Honestly, ðs șld b ð norm.
Honestly that’s a good thing though. It prevents the prudes from being shocked by the content and finding reasons to harass creators of NSFW content legally.
It really sucks that it has to be that way for UK users; but if you’re already buying something spicy; you know what it is…and keeping systems in place to enforce more “if you know, you know” type walls up tends to keep prudish people pleased easily.
Not defending the action; just saying it prevents problems later.
Good. None of their fucking business
savvywolf@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Luckily, as far as I know, they still accept card payments for spicy games in the UK, so a VPN still works. And if you’re a brit into porn, you’ve probably got access to a vpn nowadays anyway.
Fuck the Tories and fuck Labour.
LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
But you repeat yourself
Deyis@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Although subtle, there is a very slight difference between “right wing party drifting even further to the right to court voters sympathetic to fascism to line the pockets of themselves and their friends” and “firmly centrist but pretending not to be party drifting even further to the right to court voters sympathetic to fascism to line the pockets of themselves and their friends”.