Guess I am still making daily posts for now.

I enabled download for the game for half of yesterday and through the night. Before downloads were disabled, on the night of the shadowban GT was downloaded 100 times. In the middle of the night, on a week night. After I re-enabled it, it was downloaded two hundred more. The period download was disabled doesn't even show up on the traffic graph.  I'm glad I was able to help people get their copies up to date.

In the half-a-day-and-a-night that download was enabled, the game also sold five times. This happened despite the game being unlisted, despite a total lack of any network effect (at least on Itch), and despite the bold warning on the main page not to buy it. I'm not mad, this is just an observation. There are positive implications to this. And also worth noting that a lot of those (possibly all) were probably archival attempts from people who had always wanted the game but never got around to buying it off their "buy later" collection or whatever.

To state the obvious, we are on day 3 now and the game is still up. Due to continued demand and continued...non-nuking of me by Itch, I am tentatively removing my request to not buy the game, and the warning on the main page. If you want to buy it here, buy it.

This does not mean things are back to normal. Far from it. This is me putting my hat on a stick and poking it over the waist-high cover to see if it get riddled with bullets. The way I see it, if I continue on here, there is a 50% chance that if I get banned I won't see the money from say, the next month. That might sound bad, but if I keep downloads off there is a 100% chance I won't. The best way to support me is still via SubscribeStar, but I understand that's just not going to happen for many people. And some people just can't be bothered with all this nonsense, and just want to buy horni gaeme. I can't hate them for that. 

So we'll see. We'll roll the dice and we'll see.

I anticipate there may be some sentiment of "Well what was the point of the SubscribeStar push then?!" which is understandable, but again, we're not back to normal. All this could still very well collapse tomorrow, or a week from now. But it's been three days, with no further news. A handful of games have been fully banned, but that number doesn't seem to be climbing much. All the big titles I think of when I think Itch NSFW are still up. We're in a holding pattern, and there's no telling how long it lasts. A week? A month? Indefinitely? 

I braced for impact and there...wasn't one. Yet. I can still sell the game on Itch. So I'm going to continue to do so.

I would also say that while sales are, amazingly, still good, I don't expect this to last. My pages here have had HUGE traffic right now, understandably. That will eventually drop off again, and when it does, with zero search or recommendation visibility, I expect sales to drop to zero. No way of knowing though, we'll have to see.

In other news, I am probably going to eventually make a Patreon, for those totally unable to support on SubscribeStar. The chances of said patreon running into trouble are high, so once it's up I still urge everyone who wants to support to try SubscribeStar first, and only go over to P if they're denied. It's also less than ideal because I'll probably be doing it with a linked discord like many do, which will make it effectively inaccessible to those in the UK. But they probably wouldn't be able to view the Patreon in the first place.

In other other news, the SubscribeStar is now within 10 subs of hitting the extra 100 goal!Thank you all, and hopefully we can nail that soon.