MartiusR: As suggested, for info purpose, I've created this thread.

One of admins mentioned on official Zoom channel , that they are willing to add Devotion to their offer (if dev will be interested), but rather not in this year, quoting (by "Zoom_Jordan"):

if Red Candle Games wants to host Devotion here, that's fine. We're just slammed at the moment. I can reach out to them early next year and see what they say. However, we really need to catch up on our current backlog first. We need to deliver what we already have in the queue.

Time4Tea: Imo, anyone making a serious accusation like that needs to provide some evidence to back it up. If they were really selling warez, I would expect them to have a much larger catalogue than they have.

Ancient-Red-Dragon: The allegations that Zoom may be selling warez got me curious to get to the bottom of this matter.

That search led me to this link:

https://www.gog.com/upload/forum/2020/05/bc6cc244ee90d9677304f51738db36aaaffc13c6.png

Ancient-Red-Dragon: If the sort of issue that the Zoom employee there is talking about is what led to the warez allegations arising, then it seems to me that those allegations are unfounded.

The Zoom guy is correct with what he said there: it's the publishers fault if they are telling Zoom that they have the legal right to sell a game even if they actually don't.

Should that situation occur, then that's not Zoom's fault.

samuraigaiden: They are selling Race Driver: GRID, a game that was removed from sale from Steam and GOG (and everywhere else) because of expiring licenses.

De Ravenna: Doing some research, there are many red flags about this company and I suspect it may be part of a larger scam. I may post a thread if I discover enough evidence.

GamezRanker: That said, I agree with Post 60 here: People should contact the various IP holders if they want to know the truth of the situation and to verify if zoom's games are on the up and up.
(until then, it'd be nice if all users didn't spread baseless rumors about zoom being scam/etc without proof to back such claims up)

Time4Tea: I agree. They should be considered innocent until proven guilty. All I am seeing in this thread so far are rumors without any evidence.

Time4Tea: Again, if they were trying to sell games illegally, I would expect them to have a much bigger catalogue.

Ancient-Red-Dragon: The allegations that Zoom may be selling warez got me curious to get to the bottom of this matter.

That search led me to this link:

https://www.gog.com/upload/forum/2020/05/bc6cc244ee90d9677304f51738db36aaaffc13c6.png

If the sort of issue that the Zoom employee there is talking about is what led to the warez allegations arising, then it seems to me that those allegations are unfounded.

The Zoom guy is correct with what he said there: it's the publisher's fault if they are telling Zoom that they have the legal right to sell a game even if they actually don't.

Should that situation occur, then that's not Zoom's fault.

Some of the posts in this thread make it sound like Zoom just randomly puts up any game that they feel like onto their store, without having first had any contact with the IP holders of that game.

But that scenario would be an untrue twisting of reality, in the event that it was fabricated as an offshoot of the quotation cited in the link above.

Time4Tea: Please do provide evidence, if you have it. Otherwise, it's really nothing but unfounded rumors.

De Ravenna: The CEO Jordan Freeman has/had 7 companies registered at the address of a $625,000 house in Scottsdale (Jordan Freeman Group, Jordan Freeman Productions, Jordan Freeman Enterprises, Zoom Platform Media, Zoom LLC, Stolar and Freeman opportunity fund). The owner of the real estate according to the Maricopa County Accessors Office is Sebastian Richard, an owner of an art gallery. Jordan's address as statutory agent is at a luxury condo in Scottsdale, but on an instagram post from a year ago he reveals that he lives in LA.

That's the only evidence I have that something is fishy, but there is a lot of circumstantial evidence as well. Frankly I don't care to do any more digging beyond that.

kohlrak: Is this your first time digging up on a CEO?

kohlrak: That's the best you have?

De Ravenna: Yes. I am not a professional investigator, and was only looking into it because I don't want any GOG users being scammed.

De Ravenna: I don't want to make accusations that I can't 100% verify. At the very least, the address fuckery proves that they are not running a serious organized business.

De Ravenna: It's common to list your business address as some random dude's house?

Ancient-Red-Dragon: The allegations that Zoom may be selling warez got me curious to get to the bottom of this matter.

That search led me to this link:

https://www.gog.com/upload/forum/2020/05/bc6cc244ee90d9677304f51738db36aaaffc13c6.png

If the sort of issue that the Zoom employee there is talking about is what led to the warez allegations arising, then it seems to me that those allegations are unfounded.

The Zoom guy is correct with what he said there: it's the publisher's fault if they are telling Zoom that they have the legal right to sell a game even if they actually don't.

Should that situation occur, then that's not Zoom's fault.

Some of the posts in this thread make it sound like Zoom just randomly puts up any game that they feel like onto their store, without having first had any contact with the IP holders of that game.

But that scenario would be an untrue twisting of reality, in the event that it was fabricated as an offshoot of the quotation cited in the link above.

kohlrak: Actually, Zoom would be wrong on that from my understanding from other topics ("Selling stolen property" for example). However, Zoom might be in the clear, but they might have to remove copies from peoples' libraries. Most courts, even if they're in the wrong, would end up only allowing an injunction (to remove game from downloads/accounts) unless the copyright holders could prove they knew the licenses expired, which is a tough case to prove.