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Itch.io posts: The number of game pages being created per-day has doubled in the past 2 months
Tommy's Homemade Games reaponds: Do you know why?
Itch.io posts: take a guess ๐ญ ๐ค
Itch.io posts: The number of downloads and purchases has not doubled ๐ฅฒ
Yes, but they've been getting pounded with malware that's packaged as games. I think in the near future they'll either increase the prices or pivot to some other method.
that'll be expensive for an indie dev, but no matter how high you raise it, it'll still be a bargain for your malware distributor.