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Cybuster

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Funny when you mention Japan, when they're the first country to send an anti-trust action towards these credit cards companies, at least with Visa, which is basically the reason why we're in this fiasco in the first place, actually
Don't rely on Japan for anything on this topic, Fantia and Fanbox, Dlsite and DMM are on survival mode because of Visa and Mastercard, Japanese politicians can't even save their own, let alone stand any chance to massive American corporations and influence them enough to benefit us.
 

Carryon

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Like, I'm a person of a not insignificant degree of anticapitalist inclination (I will not get into the specifics on f95zone dot to I would rather rip my eyes from my still living skull), and even I haven't brought this up in my circles, because the discussion would be something like:

"Isn't it fucked how your ability to pay for things is subject to the whims of parasitic payment processor middlemen? Steam just banned whole categories of games not because of their own volition but because Visa/Mastercard, who themselves were likely influenced by Australian puritanical nonprofits."

"Oh, I didn't hear about that. Which categories?"

"...Well, it was porn, but the basic fact that they have this power to begin with is kinda disagreeable, no?"

"Steam banned all porn?"

"Uhhh..."

Hell, maybe if they do actually go for 'all the LGBTQ+ stuff' that the fearmonger talking points insist are going to be next, we might have some shot for proper public discourse over this, but for that exact reason I feel like the perps here are going to stay on their lane (as they have for a long time, even if they have only started cracking down on enforcement in the last couple of years). They might have an agenda, but as shown here, they have been pretty apt at getting their agenda written into policy, which means they probably aren't moron.
 
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DuniX

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SIGH. Not enough "normies" fap to what you hope they fap to. And the "normies" that do - far fewer will fight for it in the public. They won't call their elected officials. They won't answer the call to action. Then they are no longer "normies," are they?

"Normies" have jobs to answer to.
"Normies" have parents and spouses and partners and children to answer to.
"Normies" have bills to pay and put food on the table.
"Normies" are not going to be pointed to by other "normies" and no longer be considered a "normie."
Is that why Trump is in office?

If you keep pissing people off, don't be surprised when they fuck with you given the opportunity.
The Woke learned that the hard way with the AIs that are now replacing them.

I think there is already plenty of "Will" to fuck with the payment processors in some way, it is not the first offense, and peoples identity in Steam isn't trivial.
 

Artemissu

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I guess this will return the era of internet piracy, but in these days there will be torrents with custom wallets with for 'donations'. Maybe telegramm channels with ability to pay for content with crypto will come as a substitute.

I will not be surprised if there will be a bunch of devs and artists that will drop their work.
Piracy is the least of our concerns - at least for places like Brazil. What is really concerning about this whole mess of a situation is that, unless something changes, this essentially marks the death of Western hentai gaming as a whole... Unless people are willing to make hentai games entirely for free, that is.

In a way, we are essentially going back to the 2000's era where the only prevalent H-games you could find were all japanese in origin, and the few Western ones were very small browser-based flash games like Creambee's Collection, or MUGEN H-Characters, Stages and Screenpacks... Unlike the 2000's however, we thankfully have Machine Translation, which although isn't perfect, in the very least we won't need to download and play japanese smut without understanding jackshit lol.

And if you're okay with pirating some stuff, we'll still have access to amazing games like MUGEN's H-scene, BetterRepack's Koikatsu and Honey Select 2, as well as sex mods for Skyrim, Fallout, The Sims, Starbound, etc... So long Collective Shout or whatever it's called doesn't decide to go after pirated games too . Otherwise, we will be TRULY fucked...
 
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Fluffy_Kaeloky

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It's... sad.

I'm not sure what to do right now. Our game most likely won't get banned (for now) as it doesn't contain any extreme content, but just with the shadowban, looking at the sources of visits on the last 30 days, that's about 50% of our traffic gone in an instant. Right as it was doing really well with updates too...

Even if our game isn't affected (Meaning permanently banned), I've always been someone that thinks that no matter the fetish, even the most obscure or immoral ones should always be free to exist. I think the internet should always be an uncensored place. It might be a bit idealistic of me, but I believe in most humans to be able to differentiate fiction from reality.

Extreme fetishes exists because of how the human psyche works. What happens in a decade or so when no fictional content like that exists anymore, and yet the human psyche still looks for it ? I'd rather have that content exist for the people who needs it.

I really hope Itch can solve things out quickly.
 
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Count Morado

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Is that why Trump is in office?

If you keep pissing people off, don't be surprised when they fuck with you given the opportunity.
The Woke learned that the hard way with the AIs that are now replacing them.

I think there is already plenty of "Will" to fuck with the payment processors in some way, it is not the first offense, and peoples identity in Steam isn't trivial.
You do know that the person you mention is FOR restricting your access to adult content, right? His party and many in his administration? The three picks he made for SCOTUS are FOR restricting access to porn and adult content -- as shown in their decision with the texas law to make sites have age verification that actually works - which allowed the other 17 or so states (all but 1 controlled by the same conservative party) to keep their laws on age verification.
 

Ezekiel Jones

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Some of the titles that have been removed:

Office Perks
Artifice
The Sin Within
Hypnosis
Zero End
Bound by Lust
Hearts on Parole
Lost Daughter
Valenza Family
The Way Love Goes Chapter
Sinful Summer
Jessica's Choices - Forced
Jessica's Choices - Origins
The Cabin - Summer Vacation
Sisterly Sin
project ATMOSPHERE
Luna Reloaded
The Builder
Dragon of Calon Valley
Artifice
 

DuniX

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You do know that the person you mention is FOR restricting your access to adult content, right?
You think a large part of the MAGA base that voted for him wasn't precisily because of the Culture War?
What are they all now Christian? It's not the 2000's anymore.
They fucked with Games and found out.
That Lesson can be learned as many times as they want.
 

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Mark my words, they are coming for patreon next.
Only a matter of time.
Subscribestar too. It definitely isn't as safe as people think it is.

Sorry for sounding doomer-ish but we're only seeing the beginning of the wave that is coming imo. Dark times ahead.
Especially if the media picks up on it more and the soccer moms get involved.
 

curseofthesky

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Only a matter of time.
Subscribestar too. It definitely isn't as safe as people think it is.

Sorry for sounding doomer-ish but we're only seeing the beginning of the wave that is coming imo. Dark times ahead.
Especially if the media picks up on it more and the soccer moms get involved.
You're not doomer-ish and it's not exactly the media, it's fucking christian evangelists masquerading as feminist trying to ban things that doesn't fit into their view.
 

Count Morado

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You think a large part of the MAGA base that voted for him wasn't precisily because of the Culture War?
What are they all now Christian? It's not the 2000's anymore.
They fucked with Games and found out.
That Lesson can be learned as many times as they want.
They chose the side of what you call the "culture war" that wants to restrict civil liberties and human rights. This includes your access to porn and adult games.

I never said they were.

No, no one found out. The "games" you think a "culture war" was about are still being made, sold. But the ability to access adult content and porn is being restricted because people chose the wrong side.

I think you are mistaken on who "learned" the lesson.
They've essentially killed their website now. 90% of traffic was for NSFW games.
No, no it wasn't.
Mark my words, they are coming for patreon next.
Patreon already banned the content 7 years ago and has actively followed up on reports of games in violation of their TOS. This includes at least a few top 20 adult games being banned in the recent couple of years.
 

EETPMC

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You do know that the person you mention is FOR restricting your access to adult content, right? His party and many in his administration? The three picks he made for SCOTUS are FOR restricting access to porn and adult content -- as shown in their decision with the texas law to make sites have age verification that actually works - which allowed the other 17 or so states (all but 1 controlled by the same conservative party) to keep their laws on age verification.
You do realize Itch literally named the organization that told them to ban AVNs, and that org is not right wing, it's left wing. lol
 

EquinoxGG

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They chose the side of what you call the "culture war" that wants to restrict civil liberties and human rights. This includes your access to porn and adult games.

I never said they were.

No, no one found out. The "games" you think a "culture war" was about are still being made, sold. But the ability to access adult content and porn is being restricted because people chose the wrong side.

I think you are mistaken on who "learned" the lesson.

No, no it wasn't.

Patreon already banned the content 7 years ago and has actively followed up on reports of games in violation of their TOS. This includes at least a few top 20 adult games being banned in the recent couple of years.
Yes it was, stop being pro-censorship you weird fuck
 

Count Morado

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You do realize Itch literally named the organization that told them to ban AVNs, and that org is not right wing, it's left wing. lol
No. No it's not. Go look again.
Yes it was, stop being pro-censorship you weird fuck
No it wasn't -- you're making up numbers. Not on Patreon. Not on Subscribestar. Not on Steam. Not on Itch.

Adult games have never been a majority revenue source on any of those sites.