The Future of this Project

Hello everyone. This may be my final message to you all.

Itch.io is currently on a mass ban wave banning any and all NSFW and LGBT content off the site by the request of Paypal and MasterCard, who were pressured by a far-right pedophile hate cult called "collective shout" to mass ban NSFW and LGBT+ content off the entire internet. People behind the scenes are working to counter this hate campaign against freedom and creative expression through various laws, petitions, and mass protests, but that will take time. In the meantime, itch.io is currently going on a mass ban wave/purge of all LGBT+ and NSFW content. This puts my game into jeopardy, as my game contains heavy LGBT+ content and is intended for mature audiences. (though it is not pornographic or NSFW) In the next few days my game may be banned from itch.io entirely, as well as this entire account. While my games and account have not been banned YET or even de-indexed, that is a very likely possibility if something is not done to fight this wave of hate and puritan censorship.

In the coming days I will be setting up a personal blog to archive my games as well as the ability to purchase my games via mail-order. Basically you send me money via Zelle or Venmo and then I send you the game files in return, like people used to do with shareware like the original DOOM back in the day. Older games pre-Chronicles Meteorfall will be free to download off the site on a Google Drive.

Here is my new website: https://sites.google.com/view/krimsonkatt/home

Updates will be posted periodically on the website as well as itch.io for the remainder that I am on this site before potentially being banned.

Do you want to stop this mass wave of unconstitutional, puritan censorship? Well, I have some resources:

Sign this petition: https://www.change.org/p/tell-mastercard-visa-activist-groups-stop-controlling-w...

If you live in the US, UK, EU, or Australia, contact your local senator!

Here is the website to local your local senator if you live in the US: https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

Doesn't matter if they're republican or democrat, labour or torrie, we need everyone's support on this! Being against censorship should be non-partisan! Contact your local politician as well!

You should also contact PayPal and Mastercard/Visa directly via a formal complaint. They're doing what they're doing right now because they got a petition with only 1000 signature. We can get millions! Message PayPal and MasterCard/Visa with this pre-written response: 
 

Customer Complain Dept,

This message is to lodge an official complaint about the ongoing rampant restrictions your company has placed on legal sales by legitimate businesses.

These restrictions are not only counter to the very concepts of freedom of speech and expression, but they also harm consumers, businesses, and your company's bottom line.

The following actions are absolutely necessary to protect the freedoms of your client base and the sustainability of legitimate business practices:

1. Remove from your terms of service any mention barring the use of your services for the purchasing and/or selling of legal goods and services.
2. Contact Steam (Valve), itch.io, and any other company you had previously put pressure on to retract your content restrictions.
3. Put in place protections and guidelines to prevent such restrictions from being put in place in the future without ample warning and time to contest them.

If these changes aren't made I and many others will be forced to seek other options for processing payments.

Sincerely, a Concerned Customer

Here is the website to file a complain against PayPal. Choose "discrimination" as the option: https://www.paypal.com/uk/cshelp/complaints

Here is the website to file a complaint against Mastercard/Visa: https://usa.visa.com/Forms/contact-us-form.html

Make your voices heard! Stop the mass censorship and deletion of countless games, including my game Chronicles Meteorfall!

Even if you morally disagree with pornography, this issue is less so about "porn is bad", and more so that we don't want these payment processors stopping legal payments from legitimate buisnesses! Americans should make their own choices as long as it's legal, not be told what to do by these payment processors who are being hounded by these far-right pedophillic feminist LARPers who want to ban all art from existance. We must stop this! Stand against censorship! Contact your local politicians, sign the petition, and file complains with PayPal and Mastercard/Visa! We can win this if we work together! Don't let LGBT+ games be banned from the internet! We can do this!

Sincerely,

-KrimsonKatt