I am not sure about rules but I am yet to see a download that wasn't the publicly available version of a game. At least on the games I follow here.
My whole watched list is full of titles which get released here earlier than public release. A number of the games do not have their devs as a member here & a number do not even have free public releases.
A large portion of the content available here, is pirated. This very much is a pirate site.
The fact that a number of devs do choose to have accounts here & engage with their fans, doesn't make it something which is generically applied.
As said, I don't agree with what he said or how he said it. But you just came off as frankly dismissive and rude in reply. And I've
The reason he became dismissive in his reply, is because the complaint had no grounds for validity, so was not a genuine one.
It was merely an example, found in just about every thread, of entitled behaviour.
I didn't get the girl I want (despite her having the 2nd most content already!), so the game sucks, dev is milking, etc.
Blah, blah, waah.
There is zero evidence to support any accusation that the dev is milking. Quite the opposite, in fact.
People should not be accepting of these entitled, invalid complaints that are contrary to facts.
They should be dismissed as the nonsense that they are. It's the appropriate response.