dev killed the game, locked it behind a paywall like alot of other devs did with itch ios new rules. sad as it was looking good bur like others they had to turn to the money.
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A number of platforms, including Itch, have had to choose between being able to take payments (and pay for servers), and refusing to accept Mastercard and Visa's prejudices about content. That crackdown, driven by the payment duopoly, means some content has to be paywalled, some content gets shadow-banned (there are a bunch of games on Itch that don't show up in searches), and some gets outright purged. Even Steam doesn't have the muscle to stand up to this non-government censorship, so blaming individual creators, or even Itch, for this is blaming the wrong people.
you are wrong there are ways but the problem is greed plain and simple. one dev for example had second season free on multiple places but you could not play season 2 without season 1 which is all well and good until you find season 1 locked behind paywall. now what makes it even more curious is for season one they give the same excuses as to was given here, but the season 2 is listed on the site that it is claimed season 2 is blocked from ( see what im getting at herw?). in the other case how can season 2 be ok on itch but season 1 not? similar things happening all over itch. i think if a dev wants to use patreon and subscribestar fine limit the games to those platforms and dont even mention them on sites like itch at all that way the dev can rely on patreon and subscribestar for peopel wanting to play and or try their games. no need to use itch if people are just going to be forced to go to patreon or subscribestar anyway.
as soon as i see i have to go to patreon or subscribestar i just go to another devs game and it has led me to finding a lot of great games on itch that i can download and play without being forced into subscribing to patreon or subscribestar and for the record i use to sub for a few devs on patreon but i often found myself paying for nothing as devs were not releasng content regularly, one dev didnt deliver anything for a year and when he did next say anything it was to say he had abanndoned the game we were paying the sub for. so no i will NOT sub to patreon or subscribestar anymore after losing so much money supporting devs.
Enforcement is inconsistent on several sites - being largely driven by third-party reporting and AI scans rather than the site spending money to filter themselves properly. A given project surviving so far is just evidence that it hasn't been noticed yet, not that it's actually acceptable. Or, in some cases, it's a sign of which manual reviewer it landed in front of (and possibly what mood they were in that day).
Also, in the case you mention, season 2 is not season 1, and the precise content of the two will differ - depending on precisely how the line is crossed, something in season 1 that isn't in season 2 may be the difference.
When it comes to Patreon, it's not a shop, and it's up to individuals to decide whether they want to support an individual creator, in the hopes of enabling them to produce more of what they like. Use it with that in mind, and you'll avoid a lot of disappointments.