divingmedic

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Everybody knows that's bullshit, but my page has been closed for 3 days. Let's say I lost 10% of my monthly income if they extend every suscription for those 3 days. A small income dev can't file in court for that 10%, even less in another country. I wouldn't even do that if they closed the page indefinitely because I'm sure I would need years of lost income to pay for a decent lawyer in the US.
That's their main weapon. They can close pages with impunity because no one will denounce them.
I am still trying to wrap my head around when Patreon went full moral authority. I used to use Patreon several years ago for a two content creators that I once followed on IdiotTube ( You Tube) but Patreon booted them off for being right of a center. They were not even far right, they are actually classical liberals. Now Patreon has gone full fascist!
 

Mommysbuttslut

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I am still trying to wrap my head around when Patreon went full moral authority. I used to use Patreon several years ago for a two content creators that I once followed on IdiotTube ( You Tube) but Patreon booted them off for being right of a center. They were not even far right, they are actually classical liberals. Now Patreon has gone full fascist!
If I remember right it was either Parental Love or Dating my Daughter that precipitated all of this. Pretty sure it was PL though, that game was fucking deranged. Could rob the 12 year old daughters boyfriend of all his lunch money and make him suck MC's cock to "turn him gay" so he'd leave MC's daughter alone.
 

JoeTheMC84

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Everybody knows that's bullshit, but my page has been closed for 3 days. Let's say I lost 10% of my monthly income if they extend every suscription for those 3 days. A small income dev can't file in court for that 10%, even less in another country. I wouldn't even do that if they closed the page indefinitely because I'm sure I would need years of lost income to pay for a decent lawyer in the US.
That's their main weapon. They can close pages with impunity because no one will denounce them.
It makes me wonder how feasible a class action lawsuit could be? A bunch of creators, of a bunch of types of content, sharing attorney fees and taking them to court. The line about “where traffic comes from” should be problematic at least. Because you, as a creator, can’t have any real control over that. But I’m not a lawyer.
 

Satou Pendragon

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If I remember right it was either Parental Love or Dating my Daughter that precipitated all of this. Pretty sure it was PL though, that game was fucking deranged. Could rob the 12 year old daughters boyfriend of all his lunch money and make him suck MC's cock to "turn him gay" so he'd leave MC's daughter alone.
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hysepReC

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Good news, Patreon page is back online.
Bad news, they now justify their witch hunt.
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Joseph McCarthy would be proud.
Maybe it's time to look into getting this game onto Steam. It's probably less of a pain than Patreon these days. As far as I know, the only things they don't allow are school settings and underage characters.
 

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As far as I know, the only things they don't allow are ... underage characters.
Winter Memories is on Steam. Steam gives no fucks about what's in your game as long as you put the lewd content behind a patch.
Also Trope's been working on getting part 1 ready for a Steam release.
 

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Maybe it's time to look into getting this game onto Steam. It's probably less of a pain than Patreon these days. As far as I know, the only things they don't allow are school settings and underage characters.
Well depends on the school setting. A university like in
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is fine but a lot of the games with "colleges" wouldn't pass muster. (Seriously, if your college consists of a single building with an athletic field and a gym as well as being run by a principal with a PTA instead of Deans overseen by a President and a board of trustees You're not a college.) As I said before though I do think you should put this on Steam.
 

MarsUltor

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Good news, Patreon page is back online.
Bad news, they now justify their witch hunt.
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Joseph McCarthy would be proud.
Totally a Self Justification Non-apology Apology...
("Doh! We'll put everything back, sorry...but we were totally NOT WRONG, so...we're keeping an eye on you!!")

CyberNazis gotta CyberNazi...

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Everybody knows that's bullshit, but my page has been closed for 3 days. Let's say I lost 10% of my monthly income if they extend every suscription for those 3 days. A small income dev can't file in court for that 10%, even less in another country. I wouldn't even do that if they closed the page indefinitely because I'm sure I would need years of lost income to pay for a decent lawyer in the US.
That's their main weapon. They can close pages with impunity because no one will denounce them.
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo:cry:
 

xapican

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Trope95 : Zaton from DS, had even to cut out the Discord Patreon link about 8 months ago, and I think that gwalc suggestion is a good one , since outsourcing is so popular..
anyway just happy that it got solved so fast !
Congratz !
 
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Trope95

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Trope95 : Zaton from DS, had even to cut out the Discord Patreon link about 8 months ago, and I think that gwalc suggestion is a good one , since outsourcing is so popular..
anyway just happy that it got solved so fast !
Congratz !
I cut the link to Discord too at that same time. They said that things posted on a dev's Discord by players could get the page banned if the Discord was linked to Patreon. Total madness.

I used gwalc post for the OP.
 

divingmedic

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I know it's a "pirate" site but, I would love to see F95 provide a simple "contribution" option. I've never been a fan of "solicitor" sites like patreon or even Steam and I use them as seldom as possible.
I see some devs have "Buy me a coffee" think that is a one time donation site, not sure though.
 
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