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True, blatant fake reviews aren't really anything special for indie devs. Nor is the devs attempt to censor people complaining about the reviews. Nor is the censorship triggering the Streisand effect.

When I think of video game marketing, AAA publishers can pull some pretty scummy moves, but those moves at least make sense. The probably work.
But when I think of indie devs who pull scummy moves, they are often really stupid moves. Either ones that make no sense, or ones that have failed so many times that they have their own names. Eg, the Streisand effect

Mind blowing

+1, you must be a great screenwriter...

Wow , my brain hurts now , thx nerd ;_;

Plot twist by M. Night Shamalamadingdong

1+

You have a point

Buts its looks and smells like trash

Kata

Half the new releases open with sales lately.

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:'D

Nope, but it gives a +1 for my E-unit. And seeing all those E-mails about enlarging one's E-unit I think I did well.

They actually released the keys, just in a piss poor manner that meant that anyone and not just group members could get them so they ran out of the initial batch.

Now the dev is bitching about it.
Plus all the posts in the forums are that of the dev.

Subbed to Jim fucking Sterling son! lol, that was just too funny.

And that's exactly why Valve should change their ToS as far as greenlight is concerned. We all know they don't plan on keeping it for too long, but at least have the decency of fixing the mess.

well, i gave your review an obligatory thumbs up

keep it alive :)

edit: damn deletion :(

Tom's ban notice

OMG death threats? This is unacceptable and never happens on the internet!

Does he have a Patreon I can donate to?

FREE MONEY IS GOOD MONEY

I agree with you on that one and all honestly we shouldnt be more forgiving from that regards with devs, indie or not

Its almost ridiculous what somne devs permit themselves to do and by that, I mean things that no devs with a sane mind should ever do

Indie is a genre. Not even a gameplay genre, just a publishing one. It only means: no big publisher behind my game. Even though I love older styled games: platformers, puzzle games, point and click games, hidden object games, pixelgraphics, pixalated grapics ; I could say I love indie games. But some a$$holes started using "indie" as an excuse to dish out unfinished games, poorly optimised games, copy-paste old ones (Why should I play with a new version of an older one if they are almost the exact same?). There are some great, fresh ideas about older game types (Retro-Grade: shmup to rhythm game, excellen one) and some not so good new ideas (Gone Home. Game's solid. It's absolutely worth a movie ticket's price, but not 20€ like in the store, this made price-content unbalanced)
In the end: Some great game could made it to the stores without publisher, and the indie genre was born. They were indie games, and great ones - therefore people started believeing, that every indie will be good. Lots of money into in, crowdfunding started, and more and more lesser (and in lots of cases, money-hungry) devs jumped onto the hpyewagon without any good idea. There are still great and good "mainstream" and "not mainstream" indie games, but there is no such general rule that states "indie = good". Because of this it's meaningless to say I love/hate indie games. Quality differs in the group, the only common thing (indie) is a payment option that doesn't affect the game's quality.

He kicked me from the group, and I didn't even say anything (this time)...

:/