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Do you equate havin a game on itch with distributing it to that place  ? 

Of course there are severl good reasons to boycot each and everything possible related to them. They are closed, you can not become acitizen. Not even by marriage.  They have substandard environment protection and undercut world market prices with knockoffs, monopolizing where they can . It is not a free country, where you can speak your mind, get indipendent information - or play any game you want.  Putting money there by purchasing stuff made there    supports all those things. Including the censorhship.

They banned Winnie the pooh, exposing their unfittness for global community.  Lets hope the young people  there grow up as decent , making the country decent as well. (and that goes for many countries, even the us. especially the us.)

If i were you, i would be more worried that you get picketed by westboro  baptist church for desecrating christian imagery by putting it in some ungodly computer game. Because, you know, usually you do offend some christians by having christian "references" in games. Not people that are indifferent or even against the source material. 

A bit derailing from what I want, though.

I just simply want the itch admins to implement a geoblocking feature in order to have devs opt out certain regions in publishing their games, especially if their game (s)'s content are offensive / illegal in the regions they wanna opt out.

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That feature might be usefull for some cases. But it is mostly used for regional pricing. You do not even need an account to buy stuff on itch, i highly doubt they will ever implement such a feature. If they were, then a dev could release one project for asia with one price and one project for other region with other price. Also it would be possible to discriminate against people based on their location. By not giving them your free game at all or giving them your paid game for much higher price.

Have a game that is a tad bigger . Go to steam. Have your geo blocking.

Delist your game. Only link to it    on sites geoblocked from your unwanted audience.

Do not put language of unwanted area in game.

Have the download link point to a geoblocked hoster.

Do the reasonable thing and have a disclaimer stating the obvious, that it is fiction, characters are not minors and no celestial beings were harmed during the production. And that people offended or agitated by religous topics should not play it.

Well, actually, to submit a game to Steam requires a very steep fee which I cannot afford.


Plus, preparing more assets for Steam pages is simply tedious for me though...


And please, itch.io REALLY needs to add a geoblocking feature for game developers, in order to keep them safe from regions where the content of their game (s) are considered illegal / offensive.