Even if you manage to sidestep the issues with payment processors mentioned elsewhere, you don’t end up as a “popular platform that just happens to take a principled stance and also hosts some controversial material.”

Instead, you become the hub for that kind of material — and that reputation drives away more mainstream creators who won’t want their work associated with it. See also: Kick, Parlor, etc.

Rather than building a principled broad competitor to something like Steam, you end up cornering yourself into a narrow, highly specific market segment.

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gs17 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

One thing that might be a possibility for attracting developers of non-banned games is focusing on having lower fees than Steam's 30% or Epic's 12%, but Itch.io already does that (you can choose the split from 0 to 100%).

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magicmicah85 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>Rather than building a principled broad competitor to something like Steam, you end up cornering yourself into a narrow, highly specific market segment.

Yes, that's the point. Not everyone cares about financial censorship, but the few that do will be your customers.

	▲	BoxFour 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		when you start talking about a business for serving “the few”, you’ve already removed the incentive for most entrepreneurs (unless those “few” are the extremely wealthy and you can charge them exorbitantly).

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hyghjiyhu 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I've watched hikaru on kick and the only offensive thing about his stream is how he repeats himself. I don't really like how he says the same thing over and over. Chat, it's kinda starting to bother me how he repeats himself. Yeah I'm starting to think he repeats himself a bit too much for my taste.

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topato 7 days ago | parent [-]

After the third sentence, I was like, what's wrong with this guy? After the fourth, I was like, Oh. Lol.

	▲	hyghjiyhu 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		I guess from the down votes I'm getting that people don't have the full context here and won't seek it out on their own - something I should have foreseen. I'm speaking of Hikaru Nakamura, who is one of the best chess players in the world. He is also a streamer on kick, and actually talks in the way I demonstrated. It's not an exaggeration, he actually repeats the same thought ~5 times in the regular. He is the only kick streamer I know, so that's what I think of when I hear kick.