Overview
- GOG’s new site FreedomToBuy.games offers 13 legally produced NSFW titles for free ownership over 48 hours to protest their mass removal from major storefronts.
- Hundreds of games were removed from Steam and more than 20,000 adult titles were delisted from Itch.io following a Collective Shout open letter to payment processors.
- Mastercard and Visa have said they do not impose moral judgments on legal transactions and follow standards based on the rule of law.
- Itch.io has re-listed free NSFW games at developers’ discretion while it continues talks with payment partners about restoring paid adult content.
- The International Game Developers Association is calling for transparent content rules, advance warnings and formal appeal rights to prevent future silent erasures.