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Anybody else get "Tachyon" spam out of this?

A topic by Damon L. Wakes created May 14, 2021 Views: 107 Replies: 4
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Submitted

I'm not sure if anyone will actually see this as I picked the email up very late, but I got an extremely generic message from someone claiming to be the Managing Director of Tachyon. It mentions me and my game by name so is somewhat targeted, but is otherwise super clumsy (to the extent that I hesitate to assume it's from a real business). Anyone who'd actually identified an "interesting project" would be able to offer some explanation as to how their product would fit into it, rather than simply begging for a 15-minute meeting to find out what the thing even is.

Did anybody else get one of these? Also, any idea how they even got hold of my email address? The whole thing seems pretty scummy.

Submitted

I'm not sure how they got my email. I simply replied saying mine has nothing to do with web3 and got a handwritten reply. It does seem scummy.

Host(+1)

Yeah, I mentioned their accelerator in my message to all (sine Tachyon is connected to Protocol Labs, one of the main partners), and I could imagine the Decentralized category participants could be interested, but them messaging everyone who submitted any game (no matter if it had anything to do with Web 3 or not) wasn't the best approach...

Submitted

Thanks for the response. I did wonder if Tachyon had some connection with the event, but if they weren't listed anywhere on the Jam page when I ticked the box to hear from partners then I don't see why I should be getting spam from them now. It does kind of put me off taking part in future.

Host(+1)

Sorry to hear that, it's my fault actually. They contacted us late (after the Jam started) and decided to be part of the Protocol Labs sponsorship instead of becoming separate partners. This could've been coordinated better instead of blasting emails at everybody.

I do hope you had fun participating and this flaw won't change it, so you can consider doing it again next year. If not, then sorry for the troubles.