Comment by ricardobeat
4 years ago
Looks pretty sketchy indeed.
The post says 15 developers, their website 65+. The reviews are written in the same broken English as their website.
Their flagship game, “Tonk”, is nowhere to be found in the Apple App Store, but there are two other games with a very similar logo, published by other India-based companies. The same on Play store, where a bunch of identical looking games, with different publisher names, share similar logos [1].
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tonk.board.car...
If that’s the case it really seems like some scammers got their just deserts. Ironically, an example of Google’s policies working well.
But what would scammers gain for complaining about Google? It isn't like they can pressure Google to reinstate their account in that case, worst case for Google they would have to make a public statement saying these people are scammers. I mean, yeah as long as Google doesn't answer they can get some minimal public support, but what would they gain from that?
>But what would scammers gain for complaining about Google?
Well, it is probably more what do they have to lose? Plenty of internet hate mobs have formed backing a cause that later came out to be misleading, if not outright fraudulent. Even assuming they are scammers, it is quite possible they think they are in the right (there are cultures that have... different views about business ethics), but they could also just be rolling the dice.
They've gained free SEO, traffic, and publicity from this HN thread alone.
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No Michael, First of all you may find my english broken, Because it is not my first language. Thanks for reading our story
We're not scammers. Whom we're scamming google? Users? How we're scamming?
It's my fault i should have added the background info of ours in the medium post. But i've never written any post of anything so i was inexperienced,
But let me clear something about us,
We're india based gaming company. All our games are just simulations it is not real gambling. If it was real gambling then google wouldn't have allowed us to publish it on play store for 2 years.
now this will arise some more questions in your mind,
>>Why do we mentions address of UK on our tweeter handle? 1. According to google policy we have to provide a physical address if we want to use in-app-purchases. This physical address is visible publicly on our games pages.
Reason providing our uk address is we have a representative living there who can reply to any type of physical communications such as letters on behalf of us. He also can reply to various other stuffs like GDPR and different other policies. For ex. You can send a latter to the given address to get in touch with us!
>> Where can i find your games incase i want to see them? You can find it on apk pure. let me provide you links - https://m.apkpure.com/developer/6Ace%20Games
lol secure your own shady office network first before putting Android users at risk.
Hi there,
First of all, You may find my english broken but it is not my first language. We're india based startup.
Thanks reading our story. Let me answer some of your doubts. the numbers are not right on website. We've team of only 15 devs.
Our games are not on app store because it is developed for android only in java.
You may find identical games with similar logos because of copy cats. Once they know that your games are doing good they'll start copying.
Tonk is a traditional card game popular in united states , we just made it more fun bringing it in mobile phones. So other devs also can make tonk games. It is not our pattern or anything like that.
this will arise a new question in you mind:
>>Why do we mentions address of UK on our tweeter handle? 1. According to google policy we have to provide a physical address if we want to use in-app-purchases. This physical address is visible publicly on our games pages.
Reason providing our uk address is we have a representative living there who can reply to any type of physical communications such as letters on behalf of us. He also can reply to various other stuffs like GDPR and different other policies. For ex. You can send a later to the given address to get in touch with us!
>> Where can i find your games incase i want to see them? You can find it on apk pure. let me provide you links - https://m.apkpure.com/developer/6Ace%20Games
Isn’t this those copycats that they mention in their article? They talk about copying ad ids, but maybe it’s just the whole game?
The lookalike in the App Store was first published 3 years ago.