Crooks will just change their name and pull the same crap all over again....then repeat.

its also free advertising/publicity.. (whether good or bad)
how else to get people to talk about your game or company?
I mean if this didnt happen would your attention not have been on something else? Instead you like other contribute to it with a forum post etc. with nobody even having to pay you for your time. Most people would not even have known or paid any attention to the developer name Pera Games but thanks to your post it now has more publicity.

Originally posted by Lord Rian:

its also free advertising..
how else to get people to talk about your game or company?
I mean if this didnt happen would your attention not have been on something else?

It's not free advertising when there are people who follow these fraudsters like bloodhounds and pay the price for it, like linking The first men discord here, thus proving that they are scammers.

This does not do any favors to their NPCs whom they convinced that they did nothing wrong. Hell, they are sending their shills here to pat their oh so benevolent developers

Originally posted by Lord Rian:

its also free advertising/publicity.. (whether good or bad)
how else to get people to talk about your game or company?
I mean if this didnt happen would your attention not have been on something else? Instead you like other contribute to it with a forum post etc. with nobody even having to pay you for your time. Most people would not even have known or paid any attention to the developer name Pera Games but thanks to your post it now has more publicity.

Bad advertising is not free advertising. It charges a very high price.

Originally posted by Pedro-NF:

Originally posted by cibram:

I am right now working at Gathering Tree, after Pera, 3 of us from the Overfall team moved on and we continue making games.

At least one of the scamdevs is now working under the name Gathering Tree. Make sure you add all of their games to your ignore list:

https://store.steampowered.com/developer/gatheringtree

Done. Thank you.

Originally posted by up2zero:

Crooks will just change their name and pull the same crap all over again....then repeat.

That's why you also try to get the real names of the crooks. If you dig deeper, you will find some of them.

"Pera Games", if you poke around Linked In, for example, has been effectively defunct since mid-2019. All of the people involved have gone on to other things by or in June 2019; 3 (including one of the founders) had moved on to start Gathering Tree earlier that year, and the various others, including the two other founders of Pera Games (based on the gbatemp.net blub[gbatemp.net]), are elsewhere.

Presumably the people who formed Gathering Tree bought out the other owners, since they became listed as the Developer for Overfall[steamdb.info] (but not the publisher, presumably because the game was shipped and contractual payment/royalty obligations existed), and also took over as both Developer and Publisher for the unpublished games Battle Commanders[steamdb.info] and The First Men[steamdb.info].