Hello,

So, I used to run a mod, that has since ended production.

I however update it from time to time with updates about the company and personnel or misc things I want to share.

This has seemingly pissed off some people, who are still following the page. and they threatened to report or unfollow me and the page, as these updates are technically about the people, not the project.

I feel the need to correct them when they claim the project is “dead” and feel a sense of responsibility over the page. And I feel pissed by the attitude they are displaying.

I consider it “concluded” not “dead.” As dead usually means abandoned before release.

I choose to update this community, as this is where most of our community is and was.

Any thoughts and advice on how to handle?

If you want to see the specific comments:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/tiberium-secrets​

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I feel I spend way more effort in the updates than they are worth anymore… IDK.

I feel frustrated, because they mostly seem to feel entitled to the free content I and we produce.

To answer your topic question - yes.

Once the project is concluded, the FINAL patch/update is deployed, the community should not expect indefinite news and such from the project. It is also good to do some final words after the project - do a summary, write down where you are going from now on, and if the community wishes to follow your path, point them there. After that point any updates on the project should stop (this is not a commercial product you need to support "indefinitely").

Coming to this a bit late, but I think it's important. Your updates are definitely not that useful or interesting to most people who follow, and your comments are random and unrelated YouTube videos, like music or whatever. That is not what these people are subscribed to see. They don't care about your musical taste, or even about you. It's the mod they care about, and causing them all to get notifications about something not relevant to them is understandably going to annoy people.

This isn't the first time you've shown that you don't think you get enough respect for who you are and what you've achieved, but in reality it's just a mod and to them you're “just some guy”. If you want to continue with independent gamedev or modding you might benefit from finding someone to help you with community management, someone who has more experience of dealing with the general public, who knows what needs sharing and what doesn't, and who won't take it personally when people are only interested in the product and not the people.