"Wow, I just discovered your game on Steam (even though it's been out on itch.io for much longer) and it's so amazing! I can help you find more customers if you would just give me a key for free so I can-"
Enough is enough. We've spent too much time hunched over our keyboards glaring holes into lines and lines of code, art, audio, UI, writing, and Steam's GODAWFUL backend to just give our games and even more budget away to complete random strangers who managed to find our emails.
Seriously Valve, fix your fucking spam problems.
You too, mobile app stores.
If you're in the same boat as me and tons of other developers, let's just say fuck it.
Add them all to your mailing lists for your next game sale or release.
YOU WANT OUR GAMES SO BAD? WELCOME TO MY NEWSLETTER. COME AND BUY MY GAMES SO WE CAN PAY OUR BILLS AND MAKE MORE GAMES seriously this is the only logical conclusion why did we let consumers become so entitled
anyways, i'm adding these bitches to my newsletter from now on