Depends

Clannad? Valid

After-Story?

The name was used casually before, but he officially changed it in 2021

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58965500

I suppose it’s to stop a critical mass of promoters commenting “and my axe” among themselves? I agree though it doesn’t really feel right to encourage more low effort posts

Yup. If Steam wasn’t around I’d have the joy of choosing between Epic, Origin, GOG (actually not bad but no official Linux client can be annoying), or GFWL (which would probably still be around in this situation)

Probably operates closer to corporate software licensing deals, i.e. “we might not catch you but if we do it’s over”