Quoting: maodzedunI'm sorry but I'll have to disagree with the author. While it's an obvious inconvenience for the small developers this is a matter that goes way beyond gaming and aims to solve a much more important problem. You know how big companies operating in the states sell their production in America but pay taxes elsewhere? That hurts the national budget. So it does in Europe. Getting this rule means more fair taxation could be in place and more money would go to public services like health care and eduction or even subsidies for small, medium and large businesses. As much as I feel for indie developers this is one of these cases where the need of the many outweigh the need of the few. Plus, I'm sure they'll find a way. Worst case scenario - they'll use Skrill and PayPal for checkout and let them handle at least part of the administrative bullcrap.

Quoting: DrMcCoyHmm, well, Patreon does the billing and administrative things. You probably don't even know where the people giving you money live, right?

So yeah, this is something Patreon will have to handle. They will have to react to that before long. This is something concerning nearly all people getting money through Patreon.

Quoting: DrMcCoy

This basically means that any small developer who is too small to get onto a store that properly implements these rules will have to be VAT registered in the UK

Not quite. You have to be registered at one "Mini One Stop Shop" (MOSS), not necessarily the UK. Every EU member should have one, so if you're already living in the EU, you should probably register at your local MOSS.

In Germany, for example, this thing is called the "Kleine einzige Anmeldestelle" (KEA) and it's part of the Bundeszentralamt für Steuern.

Quoting: adolsonAs if! Some sites actually reported that??

Quoting: wolfyrionheh there a lot of games that are on Linux that you didnt notice yet :D

Quoting: HyeronWasn't there a native port done by Runesoft waaaaaay back then? Is it the same or a RE-port? :p