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Devs removing games after commenting

A topic by Ofihombre created Jul 25, 2024 Views: 301 Replies: 8
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I'm having a moment that leaves me lost, I don't know if I can feel guilty or not for my actions.

In the last days I made my comments on two games from two users about what I thought after seeing or playing them, but after they responded to me they deleted them and the worst thing is that they didn't even give me time to read their replies.

I don't know why delete their games after giving feedback? Is it that they found my comments about their games offensive, even though I didn't mean to? If that were the case, I could have sincerely apologized, but I guess some of you might have heard of cases of games being deleted because of the slightest negative comment.

You are a horrible person and should delete your games as penance. It is all your faul! Disheartening new developers by your mean and unasked for "opinions" wrapped around your destructive comments. Seriously, what were you thinking? Voicing your so called opinion on a public comment section where the owner of that account would have full control and could delete your comment and ban you.

No wonder you were banned from those games. Oh, wait. That's not what happened and I am just exaggarating for comical effect and to illustrate a point (mostly that you probably did not make any such barbed destroyer comment, no matter how "negative" you think your comment was.)

Joking aside, there are many explanations. But some are indeed, that your "negative" comments were taken to heart and consequentially the project was removed. Maybe the devs were younger children, not ready to face the internet. But that you managed to do that twice with different accounts makes this rather unlikely.

If this was jam related, maybe it had jam reasons. Many such games are specifically made for the jam. Also, the deletion of the games could be totally unrelated to your comments. It could even be, that someone wanted to delete the project, forgot about it, and was reminded that it exists by your comment.

I did see people remove their projects, but this was not because of negative comments. Not directly. It was unfinished or low effort projects. What usually happens is, that the bad comment gets purged, or even the comment section closed. But that takes more than one comment. And some people re-do their project for one reason or another. That can include bad ratings or comments. So instead of updating it, they delete it to publish it later again.

What also happens, accounts get hacked and stuff is published on them. Sometimes those fake games get comments.

But yeah, would be interesting if there really are developers out their losing motivation after a single "bad" comment. 80% of the games here are utter crap. By standards of gaming. But by standards of amateur games most of them do have their merit. There is still some really bad stuff among this of course. But people uploading this usually know about the quality of their work.

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I just hope that no one is left alone with the first thing you said, because otherwise the consequences would be serious for me.

And you will be right about why games are deleted it won't always have to do with comments, but those who deleted the games after answering me left me cut off.

The first thing I said was a hyperbole of a bad comment.

It is frustrating to know someone answered to a comment of your's, but the answer is gone. This also happens in community threads, if the authors delete the thread.

The very fact that this happened twice with different developers in a short time frame is quite interesting. That you encountered one quitter, ok, might happen. But two in a row? No need for details or name calling, but did those two have anything in common?

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To a certain extent, both did have something in common because of the way they were eliminated.

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I took a look at your comment history and I don't see anything that would reasonably offend a developer. Most of your comments are just pointing out errors that the average dev would be happy to know about so they can fix them. Either the devs who deleted their games need thicker skin, or the deletions are unrelated to your comments 

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Normally when I see a game that catches my attention I'm like that, I give feedback to motivate them to create a better version of what they made. The same goes for me, I improve the parts where the feedback was more than sufficient and viable for my development experience.

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I've noticed that some developers release a game. Then delete it. Then release it again a few days or even the same day later. I think they do that because they want their game to appear on "new releases" again.  If they didn't like your comment, they would've deleted your comment - not the game.

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They could have done that, deleted my comments, but deleting the game just because of the comments is a bit much. 

And regarding deleting games to re-upload them to gain more visibility, the same thing happens on YouTube, they delete and re-upload videos desperately to gain visibility, but they achieve the opposite, because according to YouTube and its algorithms it is not practically recommended except if it is for the purpose of editing them.