Anyway, sorry for the long ramble. Just close up by saying again that I appreciate you documenting the whole process for other people. I hope you find a solution for your troubles and can just create content again, instead of suffering through all this bureaucratic nonsense.

I'm currently setting up a storefront with a cryptocurrency checkout for my own content, but I'm fully aware this is not an ideal way to pay for most customers. It's mostly a backup, as there are still a couple of storefronts available for game developers. More than for written content, it seems.

The ridiculous annual credit card fees you mention here: bsky.app/profile/dark... are standard for high-risk processors, I believe. And this in addition to the rolling reserve requirements and the overall higher rates adult creators have to pony up in order to even sell something.

Guns are not in any way used to incite sexual arousal, nor are characters forced to perform sexual acts at any point in the game. But CCBill has a blanket-ban on guns (and other topics like watersports), regardless of context. Those rules are a requirement by Visa and Mastercard, according to them.

I ultimately got through the website review at CCBill and they were very thorough. I'm currently developing an erotic space opera visual novel, so basically an action story with sex interspersed. In order to pass review I had to remove any mention and all imagery of guns from my content.

Thank you for that extensive write-up. I went through a similar process with CCBill last year. Like Paykings and other processors they require a large amount of personal documentation (SSN, various business documents). But the lengths Paykings went to are just bizarre. I mean, photos of your home?!

The GOG release now also supports several new languages, including Simplified and Traditional Chinese and French.

I'm afraid that ship has sailed. The wording in their message explicitly forbids any resubmissions with modifications or renamed apps with the same content.

No, they didn't give me much to go on. I'm really at a loss at what caused this. Could be a character or maybe certain wording, I'm not sure. Spooked enough to do a rethink on how I'm going to develop my projects in the future. I've been working on TFTUV since 2019...

Thanks for the support! Going to reconsider my options... again...

Always happy to hear my crummy old game was a sort of gateway for new adult creatives! Good luck with developing your own games. Especially Neuro/Splice tickles my fancy based on the description, setting and screenshots.

Yes of course, I've just forwarded the entire message chain.

I will. It might be a while though, the last reply took them over two weeks.

From the last itchio support email:

While adult content is still permitted on the platform, there are new restrictions that were imposed by our payment providers. Among these items is that we can no longer host content depicting incest. You can find the updated policy here:

itch.io/docs/creator...