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All pay-what-you-want-games from this dev are gone from my library.

A topic by MiaQc created Dec 01, 2021 Views: 484 Replies: 5
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I had given a donation to all CureLovelyWarriors' games a while ago, but now none of the games appears in my library and the developer seem to be gone from itch.io. What can be done about it? Nothing?

 Now this makes me relucent to give money to support indie devs in their pay-what-you-want games/books/what-have-you if they can just delete everything and I would lose the products.

The games I remember were “Lovely Warrior of Friendship”, “Hikaru Imagination Rebellion”, “Cagliostro on the Water”, ”Sakurako in Nightmare School”.

 I also send an email to the support since I don't know which is the preferable method for this situation.

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Devs are generally discouraged from taking their work off the site, but at times it can happen. Itch.io is giving each dev a lot of control, which is what makes the platform so easy to use, but that might come with some downsides.

A good advice in general is, when you purchase a game, you can download a local copy of it, which you can keep forever.

Donating extra money is always an amazing gesture, but comes without any guarantees, as the dev does not have to keep working on a game.

I’m not sure what can be done in cases like these, but contacting support would be the best bet. They’ll be able to give you more details and next steps, if any.

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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. 

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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.

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OK, the situation is different for fangames, since you know that they can be taken down at any time by the original rights holder.  Making backups is basically all you can do.

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