Developers LIED About Access to Early Game for Free Marketing

[Ithy]

I was in the Zeal Discord server back in 2018, and there was promises of Supporter "role" for when game comes along, and access to playtesting, early alpha, alpha and maybe early beta, on the condition that you share their pre-alpha gameplay teaser on another Discord server with enough users. I was Discord friends with the head of that server, developer of the game.

Well, I did share the pre-alpha teaser video on a big server where I had lots of credibility, and another one which was a bit smaller aswell. I went to tell the dev in PM to where I linked this with screenshots, and asked about the supporter role and access to testing/alpha etc.

Next thing you know, I'm no longer a friend of his on Discord, and he does not accept friend requests. The server has also vanished from my Discord servers list, mysteriously. It was a few months apart until I went back to the PMs due to not having had a reply until I discovered this.

I just had to mention this, since there is no real way to share this kind of behavior with the end-customers other than straight up write a review and discussion. I shared their teaser on a big server where I had credibility, for nothing, and I've since gone back and told people about this, and people are understandably furious.

It's been a while, but it's been on my mind once in a while, and today I came across the private chat in Discord while pruning old chats, and I decided to write about it, because why not. Nothing to gain, nothing to lose.