Also the Super Meat Boy devs were promised specific promotional considerations, were told that they wouldn't have a chance of success without them, put themselv

Also the Super Meat Boy devs were promised specific promotional considerations, were told that they wouldn't have a chance of success without them, put themselves through incredible agony to meet the corresponding deadline only to find that the promised promotional placement never came. A bit of this is covered in Indie Game the Movie, more on various blogs and postmortems afterwards.