Itch.io has begun reindexing some NSFW games, specifically those that don’t charge to play, while it begins talks with alternative payment processors that don’t mind not safe for work games.
As shared by Itch, if developers want games listed ASAP, it’ll have to forego payment and add content warnings to the page, which includes warnings such as “porn” and “fetish.”
Additionally, we already know Stripe is out of the count for payment processors due to restrictions placed on it by banking partners.
This hullabaloo all comes after Collective Shout targeted payment processors to pull support from Steam due to specific games, leading to the game seller to pull tons of NSFW games and include a policy surrounding its payment processors’ standards. The organization originally reached out to Steam itself, but was ignored. Not long after, Itch had deindexed all NSFW content due to threats from payment processors.
A petition with over 200K signatures has been shared around to encourage Visa and MasterCard to reverse its NSFW stances and not let groups like Collective Shout influence what transactions it will process.
