What makes me sad is:
1) There are people here that genuinely enjoy Something Unlimited.
2) There are a number of helpful people in this thread that help others out when people get stuck or otherwise have questions.
3) Yes, there are a few people trolling in this thread, but it seems like
Gunsmoke Games thinks everyone is a troll here, when in fact it's actually less than 1% of the F95Zone members that engage in trolling. Sure, only a tiny fraction of the 6,696,287 current F95Zone members (as of this post) participate in this particular thread, but with something close to 7 million pairs of eyeballs (minus bots of course) scanning this forum for info (& downloads) regarding various games, yeah I think that it might behoove a developer to play nice here.
There's a lot of good eggs on this forum, some of which might want to support your game at some point, and how a participating developer chooses to approach this community may affect community member interest in supporting said developer.
Yes, this IS a buccaneer forum, but there are people here that DO support developers when they can. I'm a cheap bastard of course, but I support various games in other positive ways (modding, reference sheets, helping others out with questions and such if I can, etc), as a way of paying it forward to to others and to encourage interest in my favorite games.
Those are my thoughts anyways, but of course it's up to each individual developer to either embrace the 'good' in this community, ignore this community, or piss on us as they see fit. The latter options just seem a bit short-sighted to me if you are tying to increase your bottom line long term.