Warning - Do not download suspicious C.T.-related files elsewhere
Unfortunately it has come to our attention that someone is attempting to spread a virus, claiming to be part of our dev. team and linking to a false demo file.
Please be safe and only download files here on the official game Patreon. If you see someone claiming to be part of the team and spreading suspicious files, please let us know here or on the Changeling Tale Discord channel.
Originally we had planned to make the demo available to Patrons only for a few weeks as an exclusive reward to everyone who has supported the project. However, in light of these events, we are now considering making the demo public early so that people don't accidentally download the false file.
We don't want our supporters to feel shortchanged, though, so let us know in the quick poll below how you feel!
Comments (16)
Dang, I had no idea this was a problem, and I hadn't even made time to play the demo, yet @.@;;
Thank 20yp for that...
I've been lurking for a while -- as much as I want to play it, I don't want to pledge without playing the demo first!
Totally understand! We were going to make it public after a time, it just looks like that time is sooner than later ^^;
If you do see any suspicious links, do be sure to report those to the hosting service in question. Most companies aren't fans of being used to spread malware.
Great point!
I sorta feel like you should have made this a patreon-only poll thing since of course everyone that isn't a patreon is going to vote to have it out early (Myself included), but regardless, it does seem like the best course of action so no one gets screwed by getting desperate. Viruses suck :/
That was my fault, I wanted to let everyone know about this troublemaker, and probably should have made the poll as a separate post... but I'd already posted thrice and didn't want to further spam people's emails @_@
Releasing the demo hopefully = more patreons and more money for you guys hence longer and more beautiful game. Everybody wins.
Except for the Detroit Lions, usually.
I'll be honest, I'm not concerned with getting "short changed". I donated because I love your art, and think your game concept looked interesting. I was glad to contribute(even though I admit it wasn't that much), and was just interested in helping getting it made. I wish I could have done more to help. Do whatever you think is prudent.
Thank you so much for your support! We're really thankful that for every one of these troublemakers, there seem to be hundreds of honest and supportive people such as yourself.
I say go ahead and make it public. With the official release here the probability of anyone falling for the fake link will be reduced.
That was our thinking, too.
Keep it Patron-exclusive for a little while longer in order to reduce the possibility of these attacks. Maybe it's just me, but I think that if the real file was available publicly, that might make it easier for whoever is doing this to snatch it up, modify it, and pass it off as a more legitimate version. That could just be my paranoia talking, but I think it's plausible.
I definitely agree that that's plausible, but I'm also hopeful that once the demo is public, this page will be the only place people will go to download it. It's amazing we have to be worried about this sort of thing, this day and age @_@