I'm Selling Out
On the evening of Wednesday July 23rd 2025, unannounced yet clear as rolling thunder, NSFW games as well as games with queer and LGBTQ+ themes began to disappear. My day job's work-week involves being on my feet and with the public Thursday to Sunday, so the last thing I wanted to do that Wednesday was scrub my index and move all my content somewhere new. The rest is history . Some people (like me) got lucky and just had their games de-indexed. Others had their games completely de-listed, accounts frozen and worse. It was a complete slap in the face to creators across the platform (especially in how poorly itchio communicated everything) and a huge reason my % to them will be sitting at a cool zero for a good while to come. To me the only power, the only voice I felt I had to contribute to this was pull the plug on my storefront completely, cut all traffic, etc, etc. I thought alternatives would crop up, that calling payment processors would get this resolved within weeks instead...
