Indeed, would it really have been so hard to explain how I'm allegedly wrong here? I can accept the notion that I didn't understand the promo, but as it stands, all they've done is sullied their reputation. I had forgotten about the post, it would have been buried in the search rankings before too long anyways. And for a shop this size,

A short note explaining why I was allegedly wrong would have fixed any alleged damages.

There you go. You accuse them of having required spam invitations. Call them what you will, but they're still unsolicited commercial messages. Hopefully people had the sense to only send them to people that might be interested, but they still fit the usual definition of spam.

New Bundle Stars bundle is up.. best one they've had in a while. Has a lot of repeats though.

http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/indie-capsule-bundle/

$3.49 for:

Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Blood of the Werewolf
Slender: The Arrival
And Yet it Moves
Plain Sight
Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time
Snuggle Truck

What are the chances of these games appearing on a Groupees bundle?

I have no idea. I will say that the dev isn't very smart if they bundle BotW again soon. Its a VERY recent release on Steam.. Came out on Oct 28th. I can't remember if BotW was on Groupees Greenlight Collection page, but it might've been. They removed all the greenlit games from the page.

I'm not even sure they have released the DRM-free version of the game yet. I actually sent them an e-mail about it. I found the Humble widget, but it still lists the game as "coming soon" in the description.

Yeah, you're right... thank you.
But hopefully, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet will be again... and soon.

they have been known for their repeats from their initial release

presuming you mean they created an account to specifically thank skeletonbow, they did.
I know this as I alerted them to the content of his post and linked it, and also got a reply thanking me for doing so.

This passage is hilarious if you imagine it being spoken in the voice of GLaDOS.

I should note that I had written them a message privately a few hours prior in the day to let them know about the problem and give a heads up before posting here. I wanted to let people know how to work around it to protect their game libraries, but to give bundlestars a bit of a heads up too. :) Not sure if they found out first via my support submission or via you copying them from here but either way it got fixed really quick which is great. In my experience of reporting such issues to other companies you are lucky if they ever even respond to you let alone fix the problem and let alone thank you for it, so it is nice to get a speedy fix and expression of gratitude for sure. :)

What is more normal is for a website to not respond, or if they do, to downplay a security issue or sweep it under the carpet or claim their security "experts" are highly skilled blah blah and discount such reports because it "creates more work" and whatnot. :) Companies that respond promptly to fix such things are unfortunately rare so I am always happy to see when one takes such issues seriously and fixes things right away. Now if we could get the rest of the Internet to catch on... :)

If anyone else is interested at all in just how secure "secure" websites are these days, about half of them have one or more known SSL related security vulnerabilities or issues in their web server configurations or are just using outdated insecure software. Check out SSL Pulse at https://www.trustworthyinternet.org/ssl-pulse/ and punch in your bank's secure online banking site, or various online retailers or other services that claim to be "secure". The results are often shocking to find out they're really Swiss cheese. :) If you try to report the problems to most of them, you'll be given a line read out of a manual trumpeting their use of encryption and blah blah to protect customers yada yada and not be taken seriously. :o)

It's a rather sad state of affairs alas, but it's nice when someone takes you seriously and fixes things too! :)

Oho!

Of course we should hold people accountable for what they do. The web has a very long memory and it's rather naive to think that information just disappears.

Anyways, I've edited the remaining posts even though they didn't bother to demand you take your allegation down. A politely worded note would have seen this thread finished a week or so ago.