I will say Mr Creeps dose need to be commended to some point. Seemed like the type that would double down on his bullshit. Its a good thing he apologized and being honest.
However... still taking the moral high ground is gross. I never seen anyone break rules and step on people more than this dev.
Comes in with the audacity to complain about people who pirate his game and also about people reviewing his game if they weren't his target audience.
Its fine to bump everyone else's games to be leaked as long as he hides his game. Which i guess is supposed to be 'better' than asking for leaks himself.
Now lets look at his lovely manipulative screenshot..
yep, so to put it accurately lets half those extra days he was doing heavy advertising outside F95... which is not that much of a massive jump when leaked on f95 compared to the "marketing" you were doing
It should be: 6days (12 pledges) - 6days (5 pledges F95) - 6 days (8 pledges)
And i have unfortunately had to witness your marketing on many occasions. Completely vile and against all sites policies where its been done on.
Guess what, he didn't pay for any of his marketing...
technically it was all pirated 'marketing' by making his shitload of accounts (that kept getting banned) to spam his renders. He literally would make 20 - 30 posts / threads in space of 3 - 4 hours also had a bunch of spare accounts to like those threads/posts to push his ads.
So you cant come in saying your above everyone that has pirated your game. Ya filthy fucker.
Besides that you were advertising it so much you probably managed to pick up people that didn't even know porn games existed and were just happy to find one.
That and the posting consistency.
You get one post/update on f95 per release, not the 1000's of posts you spam on other sites where competition doesn't even exist since there rules in places on those sites.
So i think getting 5 pledges for your shit game is actually massively successful, specially when there is so much better games on this site compared to advertising to the masses that probably don't know about porn games.
I do think Mr Creeps was right initially saying games shouldn't be leaked straight after an update to give more incentive to pledge. But really shouldn't be an issue when it gets to lowest tier to leak.
That and the horrendous selling practises... you want people to pledge 6 months in a row to get your full game. So someone needs pay 300$ if they were a 50$ pledge for that lol. 50$ pledge is batshit insane too not even the top 5 games would try pull that shit, for sure no localized pricing found here.
And, never seen before on itch.io... pay full game price for every early access update... every time a update comes out... wtf??? lol
I cant think of someone more deserving of this shit show.
Also now that your fake reviews are gone, look at the reviews. They all say the same thing... even one of the 5stars. Hopefully you can actually take that advice in for your next game or..... just keep double downing making another shit game.
Sorry long post, but fuck me do i hate someone standing in their ivory tower doing what the rest are doing but actually worse in some cases in my opinion.