From troll developer CreaTeam.
Here at MMO Fallout one of the things I do is to document Steam developers and their endless desire to be banned from the platform. We’ve seen several developers terminated from the Steam store over the past year or so for hosting shady giveaways to people who buy their game and it looks like developer CreaTeam is the next to try and push their luck.
The game is Depth Stranding, an idle horror title that is set to launch on July 17. CreaTeam is promising $20,000 to the first person to complete the game before August 31 and if you’re thinking that this giveaway sounds suspicious you have every right to. A shady indie Russian developer promising five figures for beating a game built with pre-made assets? Sounds about as legitimate as the guy selling TVs in the Home Depot parking lot that “fell off the back of a truck”.
Am I saying that Depth Stranding’s $20,000 contest is definitely a scam? Well I’m not a precog so legally I can’t make such a declarative statement. All I’m going to say is that it sounds too good to be true, and that there is absolutely zero leverage of accountability or transparency to show that the contest is legitimate and the winner is genuine, or that the money is actually paid out. If CreaTeam takes whatever money they make from Depth Stranding and walks away at the end of August, they walk away.
This isn’t the first time CreaTeam has come to our attention, the first being their use of a racist slur in their Steam trailer for Code Brown along with the date “22/8” which could be interpreted a reference to August 22, the day that Black Panther founder Huey P. Newton was murdered. CreaTeam also updated the game Coronavirus Battlegrounds in June to add a caricature of George Floyd.
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