? Upcoming changes | Hint at the big announcement ? (Patreon)
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Hello there everybody.
This Post will contain the last information regarding the site review & decisions that the safety team came to, and also a hint at the "big announcement" that I mentioned in the previous post. (This should also be the final post regarding this matter hopefully)
Before starting with the bad news, let get to a good one.
Ai-Syoujyo can stay on the platform, to be more precise, will come back. After a more in-depth review, the game was deemed safe an I will bring it back once I'll put out a new update.
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Now the not so great news, Koikatsu and EmotionCreators is now indexed/blacklisted by Patreon and releasing any kind of content for it will not be possible. I know that the main work-around was to say "Just release it somewhere else or send it out via pm". After asking about this, I got a somewhat clear "no".
Down below is a small excerpt from one of the mails.
"To clarify on your question from yesterday, the main reason why the game Koikatsu is not supportable on Patreon is because it contains depictions of sexualized minors.
Here is that snippet from our guidelines:
Per our guidelines, we have zero tolerance for the glorification of sexual violence, and this includes depictions of sexualized minors, non-consensual sex, incest, and bestiality. This extends to any shota or loli content, since this type of content exclusively references characters who are minors.
Content glorifying sexual violence cannot be funded by or linked to or from your creator page in any way.
You can offer modifications to this game on your own site, but then you wouldn't be able to link your own site to Patreon. Violative content can't be linked to or from Patreon."
This means putting out anything Koikatsu related, out anywhere with a link to patreon would be seen as an offense, making sharing extremly hard.
I'm aware that a lot of people are here only because of Koikatsu / only found me because of it.
For now I can't tell you much more, other than to stay put and await further announcements and how Patreon actually enacts this exactly.
As so far, I'm the only one that received a site review/request to delete specific content.
To prevent misconception about this, the safety team employee already took a deep dive at all the mentioned games and came to this conclusion, it wasn't just made by a single look at a few images.
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Before the questions comes up. No, this is not the end for me or anything like that.
It's an unhappy change, but I will not stop creating stuff.
Regarding that, the Sims 4 Pack (Testers searched) will be released soon and all the new COM3D2 content has been collected as well.
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Now to get back to the "big announcement" I mentioned in the last post (This will receive a dedicated post in the next days, as feedback on this post will most likely be more koikatsu related)
To sum up a bit of info, thanks to the increasing support the last few months, I was able to put a bigger focus on a project that has been lingering around for a bit now.
Thanks to that, it's now getting traction and work on it will start full-time soon.
It will not be modpack, but something even better and everlasting, with a experienced dedicated team working on it.
More info about that in the "Announcement post" in the next few days.