Absolutely. Fuck payment processors

Credit cards companies forced itch.io to remove these games, otherwise they would stop processing their transactions, effectively bankrupting itch.io.

Without payments processors, they can’t sell games.

Having a federated platform wouldn’t mean much if the payments processors blanket ban the platform.

The Excel Spreadsheet is sacrosanct. A bean counter predicted that you should make more money than last year, and if you don’t, you are worthless.

Games as a service could work. The issue is that making money isn’t enough. You need to be making more money every year and bean counters have hijacked games as a way to squeeze as much money as possible from players.

With how many games are released on Steam, how can AI be quantified and enforced?