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Most likely a misunderstanding on their part. Shit happens.

Calling it "spreading misinformation" is a wee bit melodramatic don't you think?
Really not understanding the conspiracy theory flavour this comment branch was going down?

those were historical lows and highly rated games of the same series, they were featured on the top of the best deals on Ggdeals as well when the scream sale started. Just a good find overall.

However, if you have your doubts, the games are developed and published by Harvester Games, a small studio by two brothers with occasional freelance artists working on individual projects. Both have websites with affiliated projects and there doesn't seem to be any connection between the two:
https://harvester-games.com/about-us/
http://sashadarko.com/

5) To denote they are a game developer. However they are still able to interact on the forums, which includes deal alerts, bundle notifications, recommendations, etc.

3) Being accused without a compelling reason makes people prickly. The reply being deleted can simply means they realise they flew off the handle.

2) Or a mistake. A thing people are prone to doing, yes, even to strange degrees. In this case anybody looking at the games could easily see they were part of the sale, so that 'agenda' would be massively self-defeating at the very first step and more than likely evoke an opposite reaction, making it very unlikely, coupled with the fact it only makes sense if you also first assume they gain from doing so.

I can see the line you drew to reach your conclusion, but it skipped a vital step where it defaulted to assuming bad intentions before taking a moment to acknowledge how blatant and nonsensical the execution of those supposed bad intentions would have had to be, as opposed to giving the benefit of the doubt, y'know?

It was a real reach, which is why I can get why they apparently responded badly before deleting their own remarks.