Third-party content doesn't affect jackShade is going to remain untouched for the time being.
But with regards to mods, its a hard no. And I'm guessing its so that Fen can have a degree of safety. If a patch or a mod was released and Patreon caught wind of it, even if Fen didn't know about it, they could probably use it as justification to shut down his account.
This isn't guesswork. It's already happened to a creator that make (more or less) as much money a month as Fen does. Drastic measures were taken to get his account back.
IIRC, change the name of the game, remove all mention of familial connections to MC in all text in game, remove any links to patches that restore previous content on their official website and on their official discordDid the drastic measures involve sucking Patreon’s dick? XD
Fen is currently making $32,000/month on Patreon.Did the drastic measures involve sucking Patreon’s dick? XD
IIRC, change the name of the game, remove all mention of familial connections to MC in all text in game, remove any links to patches that restore previous content on their official website and on their official discord
Now granted, incest was the primary focus of his game so drastic measures were the only kind he could take. he basically had to change the entire game in a week or so
Fen is currently making $32,000/month on Patreon.
For that kind of money, I'd let you raw-dog fuck my ass, and I can't imagine there's a lot a person wouldn't do for that kind of money. Be thankful that removing questionable material is all Patreon wants us to do.
Lol! Plus Damn that’s a lot of money!
That's the same logic as "they couldn't have shot you if you hadn't left your house that day," and not something they would do. They won't (and can't) do that any more than Microsoft would fire somebody because their wife ran Linux.Do you really think Patreon would care about that? Third party content or not, it would still be adding something to the game that they have been cracking down on the last few months.
Even if Fen had no idea about it or did not condone it, someone at Patreon could still say "Yes, but its your game and they couldn't have made it without access to it, therefore we're banning you".
As you yourself said, that guy's game was based on incest ("Perverted" Hotel, right?), so he quite understandably went overboard in his panic. Realistically, scrubbing any mention from forums, discord, etc. is unreasonable, not just excessive. As long as it's not something that's officially endorsed or acknowledged, Patreon has no ammunition. Same reason Skyrim is rated M because of blood, drugs, and language, not AO because people make sex mods.Wouldn't be able to talk about it nor link to it on any official forums or anything officially associated with the brand. I remember one guy went as far as to scrub any mentions of it on his discord as well when he got hit.
This isn't guesswork. It's already happened to a creator that make (more or less) as much money a month as Fen does. Drastic measures were taken to get his account back.
That's not going to solve anything. If anything, it would only delay the problem.In all honesty, the smart thing to do would be to find some method other than Patreon to support everything.
Nice virtue signaling there.Hell I'm not even someone who likes shit like this and I'm standing up for it or trying to find a compromise.
There are a ton of different sites like pateron. Like go fund me, fundable, fund anything (yes that's it's name), Rocket hub, small knot
I mean jesus christ stop trying to give Fen business advice. I like you guys and all but I wouldn't take business advice from any of you.
Nice virtue signaling there.
All use the same payment processors and have different and in some cases more restrictive ToS's than Patreon. Don't get me wrong, I'd love for Fen & Co to move to a platform that takes gift cards as a form of payment again but not really worth it.
I mean jesus christ stop trying to give Fen business advice. I like you guys and all but I wouldn't take business advice from any of you.
Its not even about it being difficult to go to another website. If that would have solved the problem, I'm sure Fen would've jumped the ship months ago. The website is not the problem, its the credit card companies and financial institutions they work with.despite how hard it would be to find another website.
B's excellent with those as well, seeing what he did with Paige! Maybe he can help with that too!Why is that so difficult for people to understand? Do I need to make diagrams? Because I will feckin' make diagrams.
Yup just gotta yell out what I don't like.
But I still think that this is a pretty easy thing to fix despite how hard it would be to find another website.
I will virtue signal once again and say, I feel that this was kind of a both fans and fenco thing that started this, because wasn't there a thing a long while back where it was mentioned before that nothing could happen with the cousin sexually and that was before the whole thing with the ice dragon and the incest some people are crying about, I'm just curious how that got coded and passed by Fen and co at the time.
From a purely technical standpoint, all the content that ever made it into a public release is buried somewhere in the public github of tits. So yes, you could make a modded version with incest patched in.
The whole situation is a damn shame and I'm worried what patreon or their business partners might axe next. I doubt it's going to be a slippery slope where all porn gets axed as that's a major part of their business.
EDIT: I would like to draw attention to TiTS's (lack of a) license here: github dotcom /OXOIndustries/TiTS-Public/blob/master/LICENSE.md
To paraphrase, the source code is available but it is not free and open source software. It is expressly (and would be implicitly anyways) copyright infringement to make and distribute a TiTS mod unless you get permission from Fenoxo and friends. So when I said "from a purely technical standpoint," I meant it. Pressure from the financial side of things could lead them to shuttering the public github and potentially never allow mods and that would be a really big damn shame.
EDIT2: Edit Harder. Having the github link made the forum flag the edit as having spam-like content.