What Mayak said, Crisis point and Erogi have been the two major ones I have had to unsub because of huge lack of interest after being censored. Don't be surprised if Grimhelm is next as his page is under review despite the fact that he deactivated it. Next on the chopping block is likely Future Fragments, Anthophobia, Atelier Tia, Mithos56's game, Hdoom. All feature "Banned" content.
Just to point out here, none of these games mentioned above have banned content.
From the Patreon Community Guidelines;
"We understand that some topics on this list such as incest or non-con are a little bit more complicated because these situations are, unfortunately, part of real life. As a result, when reviewing this type of content, the Trust and Safety team will take into consideration context including personal, historical or educational narrative. For example, survivor stories or fiction such as Game of Thrones or Lolita are allowed on Patreon."
We've already had multiple Patreon staff check over our games, as well as other people's games, and they have been clarified as being survivor stories per the above because all the games you mentioned allow the protagonists to fight back against any of the enemies in the game, nor are they portrayed as weak or helpless.
Additionally, while I'm fairly sure all of the following is the case for the above games also, speaking about our game specifically, the main character is;
- Never physically harmed at any point during the game
- (Her mana shield protects her from any physical injury, and none of the sex animations or actions injure her in any way either)
- Never called derogatory names or degraded at any point during the game; most of the sex situations are actually fairly light or comedic
- Never used for glorification of sex in any way, nor does the game glorify sex
- (In fact, it denigrates it; anyone having sex with your character for any reason in the world of the game is exiled permanently from the WORM, left to a pretty harsh fate, and this is shown visually multiple times)
- Outfitted with a huge assortment of weapons and defensive abilities that allow her a wide range of attacks and mobility to combat any enemy in the game or any situation
- Going on her mission knowing full well that the enemies she combats are sex-crazed and knowing full well the consequences of being bested by them in battle
- Repeatedly shown to say during cutscenes and game over sequences that she enjoys the sex that's going on
- (She actually initiates it herself quite a few times for various reasons)
- Never shown to be traumatized, scared, or upset over any of the sexual acts going on
- (At worst, she's just annoyed at worst because that eats up time she could be using to get on with her mission)
Finally, there's no beastiality, underage characters, guro/sex combined with violence, or incestual scenarios or enemies in the game.
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While we're also at it, PayPal is not the prime issue here, the credit card companies are, but that said, the REAL culprit behind ANY of the censorship is
the culture of the country you live in.
The credit card companies have to play by the rules of what the mainstream person in the society you're living in considers "okay" lest they get dragged through the streets about their "values" and what they allow and don't allow, and this is specifically
why there is an exception for incest/non-con scenarios above; because in western culture, the number of incestual situations in books over the centuries as well as forced sex/dubious consent/non consent in books, movies, games, media in general has been fairly high, especially in modern times with things like Game of Thrones as noted above, as well as stuff like 50 Shades of Grey riding the line there too.
This cultural thing though is why in the east, on DLSite, you can use Visa and Mastercard to purchase bestiality, loli, scat, hardcore stuff, and no one cares because culturally those things are seen as much taboo over there; conversely, violence is seen as the great taboo over there, so they are much more stringent on violent scenarios than they are here, and the same goes for political and religious mockery as well.
(DLSite even has a clause that outright says if your game mocks political or religious things, they won't even allow it on the site.)
Patreon has repeatedly given people chances to fix their pages, and they have repeatedly reinstated people the minute they clear up their front page and make it safe for work, a policy that has been on the site since day one, and they are completely fine with hentai; it's not getting banned off the site, they're just enforcing policies that have been on the site for years and people weren't complying with.
What Patreon IS against though, and what all the news sites seem to be reporting on, is that Patreon IS against real life pornography with real people, and as before, it's been against that since day one; the difference is in the wording. In the west, "pornography" is generally explicitly referring to real life actors in real life video clips or pictures. What a lot of us are making on Patreon with our illustrated games is considered "adult illustrated content" or "erotica" and therefore does not fall under the same guidelines, and again most websites in the west make this distinction.
So hopefully that's got people a little less worried, and hopefully this all clears up some things too.
