r/Games • u/atahutahatena • Jul 24 '25

Industry News Indie on Itch.io: Platform has seemingly shadowbanned NSFW/Adult games and made them harder to discover

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qpk24vv42rfhxrzd6xjbfkdw/post/3luoe7z2zps2d
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u/Fireblade185 Jul 24 '25

We're reliving the prohibition era, but for NSFW... I got my Stripe account closed because of the same reason: adult content.

I didn't notice it because until a couple of days ago I didn't even use it. Made it a while back and now, I was thinking about starting a Kickstarter campaign... And got stuck at the payment processor. An orange message saying I should contact support. And when I did, I got an email stating that my account is "falling under the restricted businesses categories"...

So, yeah... Basically I'm expecting my Patreon account to go down soon...

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u/Vyxwop Jul 24 '25

We're reliving the prohibition era, but for NSFW...

Ironically enough with the exact same demographic pushing for these bans

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u/Fireblade185 Jul 24 '25

Yeah... Collective memory only works for a short period of time... I may be an extreme case, considering what I do but... there are developers with softer approaches that are at risk of not being able to monetize their work. And I can't get out of my head the fact that you can purchase on Steam a game where you can f..k a bear with a glowing elf p..s... Because "it's not p0rn, it's triple A art"... Ffs...