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by novok 1141 days ago
I'm trying to think where any of this is explicitly banned. You can do subscriptions with various tiers, various one time consumable purchases and various one time permanent purchases. And things like games make this a bit easier with the ability to buy generic in game currency that you can spend within the internal game store. On top of that, if the service is not 'digital' you can use your own payment infra and skip the %30 cut. Like Uber or buying physical goods from an e-commerce store.

Like video fundraisers, paid messages, creator subscriptions, tips, interactive paid streams and tiered subscriptions can be covered by consumable credit purchases and credit subscriptions. What are the explicit rules or history of rejections banning this?