Just block the emails addresses.

Edit: Glad to see it got released after the last thread.

I also got a lot of these emails and it took about five years of ignoring them for them to stop begging for Steam keys for a free game.

Presumably they want to resell them and scam someone.

Yeah there is a practice where resellers on grey market sites acquire free keys from publishers for the purpose of review and presentation, but in reality all they do is to sell them on.
I guess they don't pay much attantion to how much a new game costs or they even attempt to sell free games.

Thanks for the help!

Oprindeligt skrevet af ezraaslan10:

I recently released my first free game on Steam, Gravity (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3955270/Gravity/). I suddenly received 2 emails today from supposed game promoters asking me for some copies of my game so they can review it. I am unsure as to why they need copies of the game because it is free anyways. The emails were from BlaBlaReviews and DimmioTeam. They are written in poor English. Are these legit?

Just some advice:

Don't put ( ) around a link, at least not with out a space, as it breaks the link. I keep getting a "potentially malicious" warning when I click on it.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Ben Lubar:

I also got a lot of these emails and it took about five years of ignoring them for them to stop begging for Steam keys for a free game.

Presumably they want to resell them and scam someone.

You hit the nail on the head. Not only that, the Sentinals of the Store actually found this happened before with a indie developer that made BROCK: Investigator. Basically the developer tricked people by releasing locked keys that only demo'd the first level. Basically, then people were selling these keys, but because they were unaware they were only a demo, the started review bombing the game. In fact many curators were involved too. They were all reported by SOTS and many were disabled. So yea, it can and has happened before. If you want to release keys, make them only limited to a certain section of the game, then when they start review bombing you with their fake accounts and fake curators, report them. Doing this is like telling off those people who try to sell you game keys for demos like a middle finger to them..lol. You should do this.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Spawn of Totoro:

Oprindeligt skrevet af ezraaslan10:

I recently released my first free game on Steam, Gravity (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3955270/Gravity/). I suddenly received 2 emails today from supposed game promoters asking me for some copies of my game so they can review it. I am unsure as to why they need copies of the game because it is free anyways. The emails were from BlaBlaReviews and DimmioTeam. They are written in poor English. Are these legit?

Just some advice:

Don't put ( ) around a link, at least not with out a space, as it breaks the link. I keep getting a "potentially malicious" warning when I click on it.

Sorry, I didn't realize. The link is just to the landing page of my game.