The recommended approach is to use devlogs: if people have their email notifications enabled for itch.io then they will receive an email with a link to your post. It’s unlikely we will let you ever email followers directly since that’s tricky to manage permissions for with GDPR requirements, but in the future we may have a more opt-in general purpose mailing list for developers. No timeline on that.
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Sorry, for privacy reasons we will not reveal who has downloaded your game, unless there is a specific reason, like they paid for it. In the future we may have a mailing list option for people to opt-into but we will never add people to lists just for downloading something.
My recommendation from above is that you encourage people to follow your account if they want to stay up to date on development and participate in any surveys you’re running.
