Itch credit is a credit system used to purchase products on itch.io. this credit is used in place of USD, euro, yen or any other currency. To purchase an itch credit just use your credit/debit/PayPal (whatever) with our credit system to get your itch credit. Then use your itch credits to purchase any product we have for sale.

What do we tell those pesky payment processors? The truth that the money was used to get itch credit. What do we tell them when they asked what that was used for? Well that is none of their business as that has nothing to do with their services and would breach the privacy of our customers.

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But in all seriousness insert something between the processors so that they have no say over it. They can't complain if all their processing is a store credit that they have no say over how it's being used. They are not processing a payment for the game big booty b*****es or whatever they are processing a payment of 10$ for 10 itch credits or whatever you use.

On a different side from the view of payment processors. They don't want their name attached to the purchase of those products and this does that. If anyone asks them if they were used to purchase them they can officially claim that at no point were they used to purchase that product as they never did. They only processed a payment for store credit.

I don’t really know how all this works behind the scenes, but I wonder if that is still a problem. I imagine if payment processors don’t want to support sales of certain content, they might also not want to support credits for a site that hosts such content.

Having said that, I like the idea of Itch credits in general. I don’t know how complex it is to implement, but I feel like it would make user’s experience much better.

Right now, something like this really doesn't seem feasible, not since Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Stripe are the ones who jumped on the bangwagon fiasco to try and fuck everyone over.