"you do not even have an option"
That's surprising. I have comments enabled on all my games.
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Well ... somehow all those malicious games had comments disabled ... I am no creator nor did I ever published for one ... I do not know if comments can be disabled ...
As I said before ... the suspicious part is the lack of an opportunity to leave comments ... not that there not yet comments on a project ...
Yes.
With minimum price and with pay what you want. With sale and without sale. If it will make people trust the page, the scammers will try to fake it, so there is no single indicator that vouches for a game's safety. Hmm. Maybe the verification checkmark. But those are very rare. You will see some of those accounts on the top rated pages. But this will only say that the account was verified. It will not guarantee that the account is unhacked.
They are reluctant to enter the fake into a jam. But I have seen that too.
It's a combination of indicators either way.