New Email From Ceres Games - Is it Legit?

[Arkady]

Ceres Games just emailed me with a link (using BackerKit) saying I have rewards to collect. I will need to login. I wasn't expecting this as I thought this project was defunct. Is this email legit or is it a phishing scam? Is your project getting back on track?

This isn't a comment about the speed bumps and challenges Ceres has faced. I genuinely want to know if it's safe to click the link and claim the crowd-funded backer rewards? The email is a "no reply" address or I would have asked more discretely to the company directly.

Thanks. Signed a KS Backers.

[VoidEngineer]

The email is legit and the key I received worked.

[Greygore]

It worked for me. I just activated the combat beta.

[Arkady]

Thanks to you both. I appreciate the response. I'm a bit cautious I guess maybe because I work in a sensitive data field.

[Touvez]

hello, any of you managed to get back an unconscious character ? my cant get my cleric back up after the fight ...

[VoidEngineer]

Originally posted by Arkady:

Thanks to you both. I appreciate the response. I'm a bit cautious I guess maybe because I work in a sensitive data field.

You are right to be cautious. I have also worked in infosec and I definitely gave it a hard look before extracting that URL and ultimately visiting it.

[Friendly Fire]

Yeah I was quite cagey when I got that email, but it checked out.
Its a bit random for a game that is essentially,...dead?

[morq-BN]

Nice they did give the beta to all backers...
even if its over a year old.
what i missed most, was a select all/move alone button - but maybe i just didn´t find it.
PC creation looked nice.
and saving even in the combat demo would have been nice

[Marcos_DS]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ceresgames/realms-beyond-ashes-of-the-fallen/comments?comment=Q29tbWVudC0zMzk5MTgwNg%3D%3D

Relevant part:

FYI Sept. 2nd Message from the Programmer:

"Please give us a few more weeks, if the situation won't have changed then, I'll provide keys for the combat beta to backers of the regular version as well."

Basically, while getting the combat beta is nice it means the funding situation didn't improve in any way so the programmer at least released the combat beta to all backers. Unfortunately thats (very likely) the END.

[avantre]

Someone posted a month ago in the comments of the kickstarter quoting a dev as saying if the situation (of the company basically heading towards insolvency) didn't change in 'the next few weeks', then they'd release the beta keys to everyone.

So this might be a last 'at least I can give you guys something before I close the office door behind me for the last time' gift, considering it came without any accompanying communication.

[Berserkr]

They said on Discord backers were going to get something sent to them

[RJM]

Ah well, nice of them even if it means this prologue is the final chapter.

[Ceres Games]

Emails sent from backerKit are legit and links to any URL hosted by backerKit.com as well.
We decided to give any backer access to the Combat Beta, because after more than one year exclusivity, backer of the tier Combat Beta should not be unhappy with that move.
But, giving something playable to all backers doesn't mean anything else - the future of the company and the project is still unclear.