I’m sorry to hear that you’ve had a negative experience releasing a game on Game Distribution. I have reached out to our contact at Game Distribution to share the feedback on long review and response times.
I also wanted to let you know that we have shared a new blog post on how to create and release games on Game Distribution:
In order to experience the full development and publishing experience first hand me and @JCash partnered with @benjames171 to release his awesome Metroidvania game Sector 781 on Game Distribution.
It’s hard to judge the review times as we also tweaked the Game Distribution SDK and wrote some of the documentation while also integrated the SDK in the game. I do recognise some delay in reviews but I’ve been told that a review should be completed in no longer than 5 days.
I’d also like to take this opportunity to point out that the game was published by Refold AB and not the Defold Foundation. The Defold Foundation will never act as a publisher or game developer as this isn’t within the objectives of the foundation (except for development of samples and tutorials). Refold is a Swedish company owned by the Defold team. It acts as the “executive branch” of Defold, working together with a few other contractors on behalf of the Defold Foundation on the day to day operations of Defold. More about this can be found under the Operations heading on the About page of the Defold website.