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How are you doing? And where is YOUR donation button?

A topic by Charlie Vermin created 33 days ago Views: 142 Replies: 7
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Greetings!

itch.io is a wonderful thing and there is very little I feel the need to ask for. There may be some features I would really like, but I don't need any of them. Everything is just fine as it is. There is, however, one feature I require from itch.io - existence. I would like to be sure that itch.io will exist, preferably for the rest of eternity, but another decade or a few would be fine too.

Hence why I would like to know how itch.io is doing economically. Searching the web for a while I was unable to find any information about it since (understandably?) every single search query just sent me to posts/articles about how much the game developers are making. Similarly utopian Cohost seemed to be fine, and now it's dead dead dead - I imagine you're doing better thanks to the high quantity of popular commercial content on your website, but you do also host an immense amount of files for free, so I really have no clue.

If you're doing well, then that would explain the fact that I can't find any way to directly support itch.io, instead of revenue-sharing. But that doesn't make sense. You can never have too much money. I want you to grow big enough to buy out Steam. And Google. Maybe you just really want to make sure that every $ you make is accompanied by several $ for the gamedevs you host? But in that case, the big [Support itch.io] button you're lacking should just link to a random person's game and say "pay for this game to support us" ;)

On a semi-related note, what happened to the team page? Who even are you people? I'm obviously not entitled to every single detail, but more clarity would be nice. Right now you just have a dead link on the press kit page.

I hope you have a good day!

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 I agree with you about the support itch.io button.

Itch.io was started by Leaf who is still running the show. 

That's about as much as I figured! Between him and notimetoplay, I can confirm that itch.io has at least two employees.

My understanding is that Notimetoplay is a volunteer community moderator, not an employee and not paid.

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That is correct. But itch.io has at least one other admin, and support staff.

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I would like to see a button with similiar functionality to what I saw done on humble bundle years ago.

Ability to influence the share that the platform gets.

Itch has this revenue sharing where the publisher can set the ratio. But what about the users? We do not even see, how much share the publisher set. So we do not see, if it is a generous dev or a cheapskate.

So, there could be a button like, add extra tip for Itch, along with the buttons under  "Support the developer by paying above the minimum price". So when overpaying, you could make sure that the revenue share would inlcude at least your extra tip.

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The current system is good enough, but giving sellers an option to disclose how much they're sharing with itch.io would be a nice option. A dedicated [support itch.io] button would not even be necessary then - people could just add a small purchasable file to their game page and send itch.io 100% of the profits!

Uhmm. Isn't your thread asking for a donate button, like literally? ;-)

I suggest putting it at the place where people are reaching for their wallet anyways.