I do not understand.
But the game has been suspended. Again.
Itch should make up their mind. Be a happy home for indie devs or listen to harrassment and fake reports.
At this point I conclude that they do not work on this, but let an poorly trained AI handle it and staff does not actually have a look at cases. Just pressing ban, suspend, deindex and such, so there be less reports coming in.
Or how do they explain the continuation of real malicous profiles that post stolen games/malware, that are indexed within hours and are still indexed after months. Despite them being reported with links to original work. I explain it, that there was not enough reports, so their AI did not take action. Because no human with any kind of experience had a look at those. Same with poor harrassed mofu. A flat chest chibi pixel figurine is not a minor, it is pixels, in poor resolution. But if someone mass fake reports it as a minor, they apparantly listen.
R-59565, up for 3 months, quarantined, still downloadable. "Creator" is indexed.
R-71648, the account has 4 stolen things uploaded and now is almost 3 months old. The ticket is about the newest game that is up for two weeks now. Not quarantiend, regularly downloadable. One of the 4 items is in quarantine. This one is indexed, while legit devs cry in community for waiting months to get indexed, or because they were deindexed.
R-69768, reported a month ago. 3 stolen games on the fake account and it even has name your own price active now. They link to a patreon of the same name that does different games. Only one of the games is qurantined, the rest downloadable, and one even pay-able.
R-72021, also with name your own price active wich is very worrying. They do link to the original creator, where the game costs 13 bucks. It is here for "free"? The AI/itch staff must be quite gullible.
R-72354, that one is new, but they post games of two different creators and have payment active.
R-72351, one of the best attempts I have seen so far. But it is not the creator. It just does not fit. I had a look at their patreon. Also payment active. I see evolution, but also similarities to the other reported scam attempts. And with the payments active, the scammed one seems to be itch as well. Or maybe they just use the direct payout method. Giving control away has it's drawbacks. You can't freeze the moeny.
I have bad news for you itch. Your security screening has been thoroughly breached. The evil guys now can activate payments for their pirated games (or malware, whatever it is, it is not the original creators doing this). And of course the "righteous" can fake report games into oblivion.
You do not react to genuine reports, but act on spamming of harassers. Shame on you! Maybe I need to fake report those illict pages for minor content? You do seem to listen to this, regardless of accuracy.
Even if you do not like it, require a money deposit already for adult games and harden those games against harassments. And consider non optional revenue sharing for adult games. Better to have a stable but securly financed environment, than no environment at all. It is ridiculous. There are a dozen money collection companies, but itch can't replicate what they do. Instead of making cash from the business, they drive the business away, alienate players, make developers live in fear, while not being able to deal with people abusing the system.
You do allow considerable strife and anguish to hit developers, instead of giving those indie devs a home. This makes me sad.