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gravelblock5 years ago

I think you're clinging too much to the interest a person gives when it downloads your work. If they don't decide to keep tabs on you after downloading, then I think it's better to let go. From what I gather, you want to employ an "aggressive" marketing strategy I disagree with and find kind of disrespectful.

I don't mind Itch having my email, because I trust them to handle it carefully. Allowing the feature you're asking for would at least damage that trust. I've played a lot of games here. I don't want every dev to have a direct line to my private email.

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Ludonauta5 years ago (1 edit)

You can disagree with whatever you want, that's your opinion, this doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to do just because you have that opinion. But to make this clear, that's not what I'm trying to implement, this is already implemented by itch.io, so they already have what you so called "aggressive" marketing strategy built-in and already being used, if you disagree with that, there is an option on your profile to turn this off, and if I remember correctly, will turn off the emails from that feature I pointed as well, simple like that, actually I think you can even turn Itch emails on and updates from games off...

See, I think you are just putting your bias without actually thinking, just to be that "ohh I praise so much my internet privacy" standard. What I mean by that is: this tool that I pointed is a tool from Itch they are in power of deciding what this tool does or not, for instance, we can't send more than 1 email/week per project, they can turn this down to 1/mo for free downloads if they want. This is all already controlled by Itch, which you claim to trust, and thus this is not a "direct line to your private email", Itch is under all the control of this tool, if I send something using this tool I am almost sure they have access to that content, so if you trust Itch, you are already trusting what I'm proposing here, this is already available, this is already being used, I guess that never annoyed you, so why bother now? At the very worse scenario you can have a "player email" that you never look at, and tell itchio to use this email for updates 🤷🏻

I mean, all I want is to include free download to that feature.

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gravelblock5 years ago

Contrary to what you seem to believe, my replies were well thought out and I still think they stand.

I guess I wouldn't mind it being implemented if I could disable the feature for all games. A bad feature you can disable is still a bad feature though.

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Ludonauta5 years ago

It can be good or bad, depend on the perspective, for me it is good :)

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firecat5 years ago

This is really bad, not only the creator could use it to mass market like steam but the emails can be faked. there are too many programs and websites that can create fake emails. So this won't work as a customer or a creator.

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Ludonauta5 years ago

What do you mean by email can be faked? That doesn't make sense, as I say, people can turn off this feature and is not a prerequisite to download the game to have an email, please read the whole thread.

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firecat5 years ago

It doesn't mean scammers wont use it to take emails and as email can be faked, all anyone needs is a free domain that can be thrown away, its very common thing to do.

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Ludonauta5 years ago

Please read the thread, we don't have access to the email, is all on itch.io's server.

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