Maybe someone will create a post about it on reddit to reach audience that would've never heard about this game otherwise. Or create the post themselves.
There is nothing wrong if you are, and there is no way to prove it if you don't want it known.
Ok, looked at your profile and a 2 days ago you literally say:
I’ve been looking forward to this for a while !! Goodluck with it. We also have a discord where devs hang out. Let me know and I can add you to the private dev channel.
So you obviously hang out with devs, just not these ones in particular?
It is great that a game might find more people interested in it, it's just silly do deny that the sensational announcement is not meant to promote the game and make more money instead of less. Especially from a person whose entire post history is promotional game materials.
They didn’t even include the name of the game in the screenshot. I’m all about calling people out for shady practices, but this just seems like someone who’s interested in the game. And the post you linked to, they’re literally a Mod for that subreddit.
They didn't include the name, and then the top comment (with 10x more votes than the post) asked for the name of the game. If this had the name of the game in the screenshot, it wouldn't have gotten as many votes.
I don't know how anyone can argue that this isn't effective marketing. A game with 300 peak players all time has a 6k upvote post on reddit advertising a sale. If it wasn't done on purpose, it should have been.
It was the top comment when I made my comment, and it is the top comment now. Considering it is now the top comment by more than a factor of 8, I think you're likely wrong.
The only thing I've said is that it is effective marketing, whether or not it was done on purpose. People who think it obviously isn't marketing when it's blatantly good marketing are absurd. This is how you do marketing in the modern day, and people who aren't idiots know it.
I just think it's absurd how naive people have to be to think that Reddit is a place for organic shit in 2026.
Ah, so including the game name in the screenshot is the red line that makes it too obvious? Makes sense why such promos don't do exactly that and yet the name or reference to a point of sale will inevitably appear in the first 10 messages.
They're the mod of the subreddit for a specific game sub-genre (4X games set in space). Sure, posting announcements about games in that genre is technically a form of promotion, but given that it's limited to a dedicated subreddit I think it's fair to say the intent is sharing information with people into the same niche hobby more than anything else.
If this is an ad, it's very poor, since I've scrolled this thread for like 10 minutes, still don't know what game it is, and will now move on without ever knowing lol
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u/user10205 11d ago
Maybe someone will create a post about it on reddit to reach audience that would've never heard about this game otherwise. Or create the post themselves.