Just for some "closure" I guess on this thread, I made a post near the start of the month discussing that Zonitron had been removed from the Epic Games Store. It is still unknown if this was Epic's doing or Zonitron's own.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/Sentinels_of_the_Store/announcements/detail/3694695704121633623

Tim Sweeney gave a shit response too https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1693395231763222533

Thanks for sharing dude!

Think I'll come out of retirement!

Heya!

Yes, apologies for the lack of curator updates. Like Ratchet mentioned, we're both incredibly busy with our jobs on a day-to-day basis so time we get to work on the group is becoming limited, but we still try and update it as and when we can. There's a big backlog I'll have to get through and I'll get to them when I can.

We actually have updated it since, just earlier this month in fact, but the games we added got banned from Steam and as per our process, we remove any games that have that happen to them to free up slots on the curator for future games, so we have in fact been active on the curator just this very month, we just retroactively removed some of the banned titles which just so happened to be a wave of titles we added.

While I'm also aware your question was posed about the curator, I have made an announcement just this month as well, and like Ratchet said, we are active in our Discord server, so it is still very much alive and our community discussion boards have also been active.

Even if a time comes the group doesn't get updated anymore, I'd still recommend following the page as all of our previous asset flip and other tags will remain on store pages while you're casually browsing.

Originally posted by Madnesis:

By the way, is there anything the community could help with other than reporting the game? I understand why you might not want others to mess around with the curator so I'm wondering if we could make it easier for you to start "reviewing" (adding to the curator) games again.

I'd probably say the best method of helping us would be if you have any games you want tagged to put them in the pinned Steam Game Sharing thread as this keeps all the links and games in one single place for us to easily add to the curator when we can get the time to do it.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/Sentinels_of_the_Store/discussions/0/1699417068298155104/

Many thanks!

Originally posted by Pixel Game Makers (PGMMV):

The publisher is really a clown. Who removes a guide you worked so hard to do????

I hope the publisher gets what he deserves

You do know criticising yourself under an alt account is kinda a weird move to pull?

Hi Aydaylin,

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I have altered the curator review to reflect Red Shell's removal.

I will mention though I think the term "misleading" is inaccurate. Misleading has a connotation towards it as if the curation remained up to deceive people which it wasn't. We have over 500 curations on our page and we unfortunately can't stay up to date with them all 24/7, which is why we do appreciatie posts like these alerting us when we should update a curation to more properly reflect on current events. I think describing the original curation as "currently inaccurate" would have been more appropriate as there was no attempt to deceive.

Many thanks

Hi W1nker90

MMOFallout ran an article on this story and it seems the matter has been resolved with the developer publicly apologising and offering to replace the keys to people who email them, so I highly encourage you to do so!

Details can be found in MMOFallout's article! https://mmofallout.com/steam-scams-zeiva-incs-key-fraud/

Originally posted by aquatorrent:

Yes, i got a key for free. For review purposes. You can see the disclaimer in my review.

It's from reviewers' paradise group. Now, i'm not the right person to prove where the actual key comes from, but you can direct it to the admin in that group. I'm sure they are willing to provide more info on it.

If you don't want to pursue it further and believe my response, the key comes from the publisher themselves.

I spoke with Reviewers Paradise and the developer himself emailed them a key directly and provided evidence of this.

An 8th report just got filed by the developer.

To the developer, your reports on this forum aren't going to Valve, they're coming to me cause I own this forum. Reporting these people aren't doing anything.

I would just add him to tell him this, but he's blocked me

Developer, please stop reporting people on this thread, we have overturned all of the reports you've filed on here as none of them violate any rules. Please see our post here, thanks: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/Sentinels_of_the_Store/announcements/detail/3068620431825472882