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This is absolutely fine for someone to request on their personal blog to a group of followers who may well be interested in the game and support the author. People have used their blogs for this sort of thing for decades.

It wasn't posted by the developer.

I didn't realize that this wasn't posted by the dev, and that it was only meant for his normal subscribers. So my criticism is a little harsh here.

> Here is the link to where you can download it, and also maybe, you know... PAY FOR IT?

Why criticize someone for hosting their in-progress game on itch.io? That's... a completely normal thing to do.