That's terrible.
I can see where it would be necessary to remove a game from itch. Maybe the game contains contains illegal material, or maybe the developer just really wants to distance themselves from a past shame. However, this should always result in a refund to everyone who purchased the game, paid out of the developer's own pocket. Selling perpetual access to a game and then taking it away is fraud.
Well, most of the games were fangames with copyrighted characters, and they were free. I choose to donate since I wanted them to show up in my library because free games don't. Now, I didn't give away a lot of money, and that not the issue for me. The issue is that the games are gone, but then I guess I should had backed them up.
For what it's worth: if you paid for those games, there must have been good reasons for removing them; the creator would have needed to contact support and make a convincing case for it. So it was either that, or a takedown request (which is also not taken lightly on itch.io). I realize this doesn't help now. Just trying to point out that whatever happened, it wasn't done on a whim.
