The "compliance measures" is censorship, that IS the problem being raised here.  They are kowtowing to fascism, and attacking LGBTQIA+ content, and sexuality generally.  This is an evil move in response to an evil move.  To fight fascism, you never concede to their demands.  Concession will never appease fascists, only teach them they can get away with their violence and hatred.  They will then try more violence and hatred.  It will never stop until everyone who isn't inside their politically advantageous in-group at the time is dead.

First: Thank you for taking the time of digging out and sharing that video, ThrallZ. Due to my very agressive privacy setting I cannot access any Google servives while on itch.io, so I have not watched it at the time of writing.

I came across this article that teaches you how to shout back if you are using any of the services involved. That being said, said article is mostly aimed at people from the US and Canada. https://stop-paypros.neocities.org/

Itchio was given no warning and immediate ultimatum. Steam has just added a policy that games must comply with payment processor policy.

This situation isn't fascism this isn't the government, it's an unregulated monopoly payment processor market, what we need is regulation. Regulation isn't made by some storefronts going under for standing in solidarity, it's a lengthy process through law.

Holy false equivalence batman

A better example would be "If Jeffrey Epstein forced your father to sell you to him, by threatening to murder your entire family, which man are you more angry at?" and that would still be false equivalence since we're not talking about slavery, SA or murder at all. And I would still go with Epstein, btw.

If itch took down their entire site, way more creators would be affected by this. Changing payment processors would probably not be a great solution either, since it would probably mean higher fees which would be less revenue for itch or the creators.
And then we're not even talking about loss of sales due to people not having their preferred checkout-method. And the very high probability that Collective Shout will also go after these new payment processors.

Yes, itch could've acquiesced with the demand and still spoken out about it firmly, and pointing people in a direction for action against this BS. But Collective Shout are still ultimately to blame, together with our current systems allowing this loophole they've found. We need to make our politicians aware that we find this unacceptable, and that payment processors should not be allowed to dictate stuff like this. Start local initiatives where you live, and spread the word.
If in the US, I've heard you can look up the "Fair Access to Banking Act", also called "Bill s.401". That's a good start.
There's also a petition, https://www.change.org/p/tell-mastercard-visa-activist-groups-stop-controlling-w...

Why do you want us to care about what fascist fucks think?

Grow a backbone. If some must suffer, we all suffer together. Take the entire site down.

What squirtlel said. As of right now a few internet people who play games for adults/“perverts” do not have the power to do anything other than watch their favorite game devs struggle to make a living somehow.

I would also make the wild claim that the average itch.io-user (just like the average “gamer”) has little to no awareness of the important things that are going on in the world around them until and unless actively informed by a well-worded individual in a visible position who can convey what happened and why this is a bad omen for consumers.

Case in point: I heard about this on Newgrounds before I had a look at the itch.io-forums. ( I have a backlog of hundreds of video games. What do you want from me…? :/ )

Its not like this is the first time that they removed games without refunding users, Its not misinformation if i speak from experience. Its just now on a larger scale so more complains which might result in different actions from itch.io to save some face.

One of the games that group is targeting is Detroit: Become Human apparently, i don’t like that game at all but i think that says everything about what they want.