Re: Steamy, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!
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io is used for a lot of tech things.Seems like a pretty ambitious project. Interestingly it has the .io domain name, which after looking it up is the domain for the British Indian Ocean territory which is kind of interesting. Something to keep an eye on.
They made another thread. Free negative rep if you post anything that isn't "wow awesome"What's been going on with this?
Forums were dead for a while. And this thread used to be sticky, but now it's not?
Actually, Patreon is insanely fair/cheap; almost every other adult service provider (DLSite, Offbeatr, etc.) will nail you for 30%+ of your profits at a minimum, usually it's more like 40%.And yes, credit card processing for adult things is a pain. I need to take to some merchant services providers this week myself to get payments implemented for LEWD. I was thinking of extending that as something for other game devs since Patreon provides a very poor (non-existent) API and such for those things, and their fee is like 9-12% which is super high for what they offer.
In this case, the original complaint was due to lack of a billing API. Technically true, but to be fair it is outside of the scope of Patreon.tl;dr; Patreon is insanely good fees-wise, not sure why people complain about it
To also be fair, if you use the PM system or email people, and only do so after pledges go through, no one can steal anything on Patreon any better than they could normally pirating stuff.The 2% less is not worth the completely lack of developer tools, how people can steal what is "Patreon only" by pledging but not paying, etc.
So you punish your supporters by making them wait up to 35 days to get what they want to pay for because of Patreon's broken system and those that abuse it. That's not fair, either.To also be fair, if you use the PM system or email people, and only do so after pledges go through, no one can steal anything on Patreon any better than they could normally pirating stuff.
Not gonna deny that sucks, but it's still the best thing out there financially/legally/etc. for westernersSo you punish your supporters by making them wait up to 35 days to get what they want to pay for because of Patreon's broken system and those that abuse it. That's not fair, either.
That wasn't the main part of my point though.Security honestly wasn't something that crossed my mind with regards to this, but it certainly could be an issue. I suppose it depends on the circumstances in which the forum went down. Although depending on payment processor, card details might not need to be stored.