Showing opposition is good, if they find the community is so against this maybe they’ll not grin and bear the nonsense of the payment processors. They could move to new payment processors, or use crypto to pay.
Why are you assuming they are grinning about it? They were hosting this all before in a very laissez fair approach. Unbelievable. It’s not “bearing” the payment processors, it’s existential. Either they do as they say or they go offline, how hard is this to understand?
My bad, thanks for the headsup. Missed that because of the negation. So yeah my original reply is a mess but that doesn’t change that this is existential and the community opposing itch doesn’t make any sense.
The most the payment processors can do is refuse to work for them. All the free games will still be available and they’ll have to find new payment processors.
This is way harder than you can imagine… You can’t just swap out a payment provider overnight, and even then moving to less popular providers on such a big website is risky.
Moving away would seriously hurt bottom line as not everyone will bother setting up accounts.
Moving to crypto would shut them down, the amount of people I know that pay with crypto for anything is almost zero despite having a tech-savvy friends group.
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Showing opposition is good, if they find the community is so against this maybe they’ll not grin and bear the nonsense of the payment processors. They could move to new payment processors, or use crypto to pay.
Why are you assuming they are grinning about it? They were hosting this all before in a very laissez fair approach. Unbelievable. It’s not “bearing” the payment processors, it’s existential. Either they do as they say or they go offline, how hard is this to understand?
“grin and bear it” is not literal.
My bad, thanks for the headsup. Missed that because of the negation. So yeah my original reply is a mess but that doesn’t change that this is existential and the community opposing itch doesn’t make any sense.
The community taking it out on itch is definitely misplaced blame and a lack of understanding how much power the payment processors have.
The most the payment processors can do is refuse to work for them. All the free games will still be available and they’ll have to find new payment processors.
Like who? You realize there’s only a handful and they operate as a single entity, right?
This is way harder than you can imagine… You can’t just swap out a payment provider overnight, and even then moving to less popular providers on such a big website is risky.
Imagine a version of the game launchers/sites where you could pay with monero and be anonymous.
Moving away would seriously hurt bottom line as not everyone will bother setting up accounts. Moving to crypto would shut them down, the amount of people I know that pay with crypto for anything is almost zero despite having a tech-savvy friends group.