{"id":1965,"date":"2012-06-22T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T14:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2012-06-22T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T14:45:12","slug":"unity-spamming-game-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/22\/unity-spamming-game-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Unity: spamming game-developers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far this week, from Unity3d, I&#8217;ve received:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A &#8220;personal&#8221; email asking me to respond if I want to know more about Unity4.\n<ul>\n<li>When I replied, I got an auto-responder saying &#8220;I&#8217;m away for two weeks and will not be responding to email&#8221;; which reminded me this account manager had told me they&#8217;d be leaving a few days *before* I received the email &#8220;From&#8221; them\n<li>So, I re-forwarded my email to the named &#8220;in my absence, speak to&#8221; contact &#8211; no response\n<\/ul>\n<li>A few days later: a new &#8220;personal&#8221; email, again asking me to respond to their marketing push for Unity4, but this time from the &#8220;in my absence&#8221; contact\n<ul>\n<li>This despite no response to my email I&#8217;d already sent about the last such email from Unity\n<li>And, again &#8230; when I replied &#8230; no response\n<\/ul>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If someone&#8217;s on holiday &#8211; no problem there, of course!<\/p>\n<p>If someone&#8217;s ignoring your emails *responding to their marketing* &#8230; and then &#8220;personally&#8221; sending you marketing emails days later &#8230; that&#8217;s mildly offensive.<\/p>\n<p>If the company is sending out fake emails that pretend to come from people who &#8211; by the sounds of the auto-responder &#8211; were already out of the office and not responding to email &#8230; that&#8217;s definitely offensive.<\/p>\n<p>I think Unity needs to do some a bit of work re-thinking their spamvertising &#8211; sorry, I mean &#8211; their marketing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far this week, from Unity3d, I&#8217;ve received: A &#8220;personal&#8221; email asking me to respond if I want to know more about Unity4. When I replied, I got an auto-responder saying &#8220;I&#8217;m away for two weeks and will not be responding to email&#8221;; which reminded me this account manager had told me they&#8217;d be leaving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}