DylansMoM_001
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this game was having like a lot of "up comming" options, suddenly... game was over and completed. They deleted alternative options
So the last patch that was "just missing few text lines" isn't coming out? That's sad.
MagicDragon3D
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Sorry for my ignorance, but the compressed version you referred is the Joiplay or the game?
DylansMoM_001
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When are you making an android port of this game?I am the creator of this game. I don't know if I posted in the right section
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I won't blame the dev, they got practically deplatformed everywhere and had to withstand a massive hate campaign and a petition with over 70k signatures to get their game removed from steam. Combine that with the recent debanking of hgame devs you can imagine that the future looks pretty shitty.
what about subscribestar or patreon? Can't they go back there instead of trying on steam?
My guess is that the plan was to take a month long vacation and then do exactly what you said. They didn't realize they would be the 'Franz Ferdinand' in a global debate over speech on the internet. If you haven't been following this stuff, you might not appreciate how big and complex it's gotten.
The irony is that there's massive risks and incentives both ways. Steam ownership of the game went from something like several dozen to 100k. A lot of that's just from people buying the game out of protest. So this could be Zerat's lottery ticket. But they also have such a massive target on their back, that the hammer will come down on any platform that hosts them. So you have to ask how long it will take for 'anti's' to stop caring, and whether or not Zerat still wants to come back after all that time.
And that's not even touching all the legal and legal-adjacent issues implicated. How will they (and now hundreds of other adult creators) get payment processing? Will new infrastructure actually be created with the help of crypto, Valve, or Elon Musk? Will the 'Fair access to banking' act be passed, and how will it and Trump's recent stopgap executive order be enforced? Will the US congress pass porn ID laws federally? (There are already bills and precedent to do so). While the content of this game can generally be regarded as protected speech in the US via precedent, so was Roe. vs. Wade, and obscenity laws are actually an 80-year old grey area. That's on top of the fact that this game has 0 such protections in Canada, Australia, the U.K., and really most of the "free" world.
Finally, you have personal issues. The anti's most certainly have been trying to doxx Zerat and co-contributors. How has this been affecting their personal relationships? Have they received stalking and threats (most probably), and are they working with law enforcement to do something about that? Do Zerat and co. even all live in the US, which is the only Anglophone country they can expect to even get such protections?
If you've been following this stuff as long as I have, it's nothing new, and a lot of really talented artists have gone the way of the dodo. In fact, one of the major reasons fictional adult entertainment is so low quality, is that usually only people from very poor countries can afford to make it full-time, being patronized by people from richer countries. Realistically, the only way the cycle of de-platforming ever ends is under two-conditions:
1) The US government reasserts the free speech rights of adult content creators. -(Doable, but dubiously likely under the current supreme court).
2) Ultimately, the US government enforces some kind of financial protection for internet commerce. That could go as far as regulating the credit card companies as utilities, but it doesn't strictly have to. For example, Valve could partner with Coinbase to create a crypto-based payment processor, and gradually add adult content companies into their network. But they would still need federal protection to keep Visa, Mastercard, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. from freezing them out of the market (which they will try to do).
There is some hope, but it's looking pretty grim.
RudeyKelly
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funny thing is that it isn't even that bad. If they only knew the other shit out there...
Well... "land of the free" my ass. How we came to such a narrow place in just a decade will never stop to amaze me. First the censorship from the woke, now the censorship from the religious. If there are Americans reading this, or anglophones, you really need to sort out your internal struggles, and this is coming from a fellow European. Thank you for your answer, I'm honoured your first message was spent on me.
This is nothing new here in America. We've seen censorship from both sides whenever they think they can get away with it, be it books, music, games, movies, etc. It's been going on since we were colonies. The more polarized the political situation, the worse it gets.
Ruse1985
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You know your country better than me, but it seems to me it's getting worse the more "corporate" you've becoming, the more your giant companies grow. Problem is the've grown so much, that their hysterical policies now hit not only your country, but the whole "free world". This has the effect of discrediting your country at the eyes of your allies as well. I do not think it's an issue you (as American people) should take lightly. I hope my words make sense, I do not want to levy criticism, just some food for thought.
not sure where he would be posting now if all his pages are down but he did say he would be returning to work after August 31st and he clearly didn't keep his word for the v1.05 update coming before his return
He still has his website, zeratgames.com. The only problem is, that it is barely maintained and still says 'back soon'. So he could post if he intended to do so - he just chose not to.