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No? I'm not your servant. Here's what you do, sort games by abandoned then pick a random 10-20 games and look up the devs on graphtreon. Happy to help.Show me five games where the Abandoned tag of F95 had an effect on games who aren't really abandoned. We had plenty games where the tag appeared and the dev's where active on their Discord and fundraising sites. After a while a new update came out, as the dev's always promised, and their backers were fine with it.
There's one case where F95 ignored their own rules: Bare Witness. By rules it had to get the tag but since one of the F95 higher ups is friends with the devs they let it slide. Everyone knew AlterWorlds worked on this project, but by the rules of F95 that doesn't care. In other cases many players and the backers knew too the certain devs were working on their project and the release takes more time as they get by F95 tag rules. The tag appeared but that doesn't change anything. In one case there was even a Patreon message when a new update comes out. The date was literally three days after the "F95 deadline". Said game had this tag for a week until it was leaked here.
In short: the Abandoned tag is a good thing, I don't question it. But F95 doesn't have the impact on devs that the pirate bubble believes. I think five years ago it might be a powerful site for this genre. But by now it's more the Discord bubble, the Steam buyers, Reddit (I know it's a shit place), and the backer crowd. There's a reason why so many devs left this place. Mostly because of the toxicity towards them, but also because they learned there're better ways to promote their game.
And with all that knowing, I'm sure Naughty Fox Games doesn't give a shit about the whining here. Don't get me wrong, I too think this update is a disappointment. But look at their Discord. There's no discussion. Some Guests who're obviously not backers of them are complaining, but it's just a hand full, and the very most backers disagree.
You're saying this on a page where someone has already listed several examples of backers complaining btw, just wanted to point that out because you must have missed it.The only audience who matters to devs is the audience who pays them. As long as the backers don't complain, it's all good.
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