Loot Toot Games

[DjGus]

We all know them as digital homicide.
Reason i'm posting this is because there has been increasing activity from their side, doing giveaways, but not from their old "games"...

They're either acting as a publisher or sponsor of sorts, or in the worst case, if they are THAT stupid, coming back with alts.

Anyways, the intent with posting this is just to raise an eyebrow or two eheh....

Latest DH giveaways:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeGameFindings/comments/828psp/steamgame_psychiatrist_simulator/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/791590/Psychiatrist_Simulator/

https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeGameFindings/comments/825kav/steamgame_dice_unique_rules/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/708930/Dice_unique_rules/

https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeGameFindings/comments/8221hb/steam_game_cowboy_escape/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/801280/Cowboy_Escape/

First post here, be gentle, plis!

[DjGus]

Yeah, i think they have that site from since they got the boot off steam...
They've been using it to peddle google play store apps or some sort of crap, but it's the first time i've seen them actively promoting other "devs" crap.

And judging by the quality of those "games"? They didn't wise up.

[Mellow_Online1]

Loot Toot is nothing new, it's simply Digital Homicide hosting giveaways. They aren't a publisher, they're mainly just getting keys off of devs and then distributing them hoping to make some pennies off the ads of the site.

Also, James has nothing to do with Loot Toot, apparently Loot Toot is run entirely by Robert. But frankly, I'm not concerned, they've been using the Loot Toot name to do giveaways since they were booted.

[Mellow_Online1]

Also @OccularMalice, please don't post personally identifiable info, their address alongside a lot of other personal info was present in that link. I've edited the quote from Gus' comment as well.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Sentinels_of_the_Store/discussions/0/1699417068298144897/

[Occular Malice]

@Mellow_Online1 apologies. I do disagree as it's evidence and while I'm not directly posting that information it's available to the world. Evidence as to who someone's email belongs to or where a source of information is coming from IMHO needs to be present for situations like this, otherwise it's just people saying stuff which is, at best, accusation and heresay. IANAL but this is your house so I'll follow the rules, I just think that in some cases when information is public (e.g. a tweet) then direction people to that tweet shouldn't be an issue, regardless of the content. Again, my apologies, I thought I was just contributing to the cause but understand your reservations.

[Mellow_Online1]

Better piece of evidence would be to show that https://www.digitalhomicide.ninja now redirects to loot Toot, but personally disagree with your statements. Everyone's personal info is out there on the Internet just waiting to be discovered. I can see you had no bad intentions with linking it, just we don't want the group to be about making things too personal with developers on our forums by openly linking and showing addresses and phone numbers.

[Occular Malice]

Fair enough and I do respect that. We'll just agree to disagree and I'll refrain from doing that in the future here. Thanks.

[Mutant Overlord]

>sponsor
I bet its their own work

[DjGus]

All good, the idea of running it through you guys popped up immediately in my mind...

Thanks for your time, guise!

[¥aeko]

Actually, i find it disgusting that Digital Homicide tried to get keys for my games from me -.-

No, I am not joking, they asked for 1.000 - 10.000 keys in a Mail which is 2 days old now, but I did not knew it was DH until i saw this topic.

Quote from the Mail:

Here's what is needed to connect you with a massive audience:

Choose 1 from the following and provide the appropriate link:
- Follow you on twitter(provide your Twitter link)
- Visit you on Facebook (provide your Facebook page link)
- Subscribe to your Youtube channel (provide your Youtube channel link)
- Send traffic to another website/game page (provide your website/game link)

Send between 1,000 to 10,000 Steam keys for the giveaway, along with the Option/Link you've chosen above.

Lets see how long it takes until they try to sue me for writing this post >.<...

[Mellow_Online1]

Originally posted by ¥aeko:

Actually, i find it disgusting that Digital Homicide tried to get keys for my games from me -.-

No, I am not joking, they asked for 1.000 - 10.000 keys in a Mail which is 2 days old now, but I did not knew it was DH until i saw this topic.

Quote from the Mail:

Here's what is needed to connect you with a massive audience:

Choose 1 from the following and provide the appropriate link:
- Follow you on twitter(provide your Twitter link)
- Visit you on Facebook (provide your Facebook page link)
- Subscribe to your Youtube channel (provide your Youtube channel link)
- Send traffic to another website/game page (provide your website/game link)

Send between 1,000 to 10,000 Steam keys for the giveaway, along with the Option/Link you've chosen above.

Lets see how long it takes until they try to sue me for writing this post >.<...

Yeah, lol. Had a Dev forward me one of the emails that they received from them, but yeah, if dwvs areally aware if their reputatin (which seems a lot do) then they shouldn't be much of a problem. Talked with devs that weren't aware they were Loot Toot and even they declined their service cause they were demanding too much.

[Ryuu]

Originally posted by DjGus:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeGameFindings/comments/825kav/steamgame_dice_unique_rules/

If anyone wonders - the dev has a Russian name and even made a typical translation error in game title: "dices" in Russian also means bones. And store page is full of badly translated text.

[DjGus]

They deffo seems to have shifted tactics over to scamming developers out of keys to run their GA's...

In fact a new GA from them popped up over at reddit...

http://store.steampowered.com/app/707870/HooBoy/

https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeGamesOnSteam/comments/82lvd6/hoo_boy/

Even people who usually collect games from GA's are almost afraid of taking a key. Hilarious

Edit: Make that 2

https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeGameFindings/comments/82rmdo/steamgame_the_haunting_of_billy/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/796950/The_Haunting_of_Billy/

lol, and someone posted this there:

https://imgur.com/Hp6CmYG

Wich seems to be their... "contact approach" to devs

[Mutant Overlord]

Originally posted by 2dengine:

Just recieved the "free marketing opportunity" email from Loot Toot.
I feel bad for the poor devs who have fallen for this.

PS.
Must admit I was quite tempted to send a few keys from:
http://www.irrlicht3d.org/pivot/entry.php?id=1527
Nah, probably not worth it stooping that low!

http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2012/09/Billy-D_Approves.gif
kudos for you

[DjGus]

Originally posted by 2dengine:

Just recieved the "free marketing opportunity" email from Loot Toot.
I feel bad for the poor devs who have fallen for this.

But did you look at the quality of the titles their promoting?
It almost feels as a deliberate effort to push yet even more garbage onto the storefront...
And at the rate they are doing giveaways lately, the flow doesn't seem to want to stop.
Anyhow, i wonder if those guys are aware of steam's "confidence metric" and it's relation to card drops...

[Dude13]

Originally posted by 2dengine:

Originally posted by DjGus:

But did you look at the quality of the titles their promoting?
It almost feels as a deliberate effort to push yet even more garbage onto the storefront...
And at the rate they are doing giveaways lately, the flow doesn't seem to want to stop.

True, but we have to assume that at least some of these giveaway games are from innocent/unaware developers.
Also, what is LootToot's benefit in all of this? Perhaps a portion of the keys are going in their own pockets?

how does that make them money? It's not like the games drop cards anymore...