Comment by x0x0
4 years ago
Nobody is arguing whether Google killed their account.
We're saying they trip tons of shady heuristics, and we're skeptical there wasn't a solid reason. Particularly when the majority of games were free -- there's tons of very shady monetization strategies out there, particularly for games involving gambling.
Plus, for example, a twitter account that either started May 9, or was scrubbed. For a company with claimed millions of users.
Bundle ids against a domain -- sixace.com -- which they don't appear to own.
No company information that I can find on the internet or LinkedIn.
Fake testimonials on their website with stolen images from the internet.
No company information in the UK company database for either 6ace or sixace, despite a claimed address of "61,hallwicks road,Luton,Bedfordshire,London-LU2 9BG".
etc etc. All this screams sketchy.
> No company information in the UK company database for either 6ace or sixace, despite a claimed address of "61,hallwicks road,Luton,Bedfordshire,London-LU2 9BG".
To be fair it is common for a UK company to have a generic name and for various activities run under it to trade under different names.
Usually however when the company is legitimate the footer of the website will say "Brand Name is a trading name for Actual Company Name Limited" where the company name will be registered at Companies House.
Not the case here, cannot see any info on the actual company, couldn't actually find a mention of that address anywhere on the site either where did you get it from?
That's a residential address for a random house in Luton. Not uncommon for a small company to be registered to a residential property, but the address doesn't seem to be in Companies House records.
Anyway I do agree this is sending off all sorts of red flags for me too, I think the post is telling a very one sided story and Google in this specific case has legitimate reason to ban that dodgy developer account.
The address was prominently displayed on their play store pages.
eg https://ibb.co/mFTpzCC
Thanks. Since no company is registered under that address I'd bet there simply is no company and the guy is just a sole trader under the name Six Ace Games. No official registration needed for that, you just have to report the income to HMRC (taxman) and that's it.
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Hello there,
First of all sorry for my bad emglish. It is not my first language so.
It's my bad i should have mentioned more stuff to our medium post so that it won't leave users with any confusions. Please pardon me as this was my first post. I've never had written anything before.
You might got some questions like
Q: Who are we? A: We are simply a india based gaming startup. We had 8-10 games published on our playstore account.
Q:Why do we mentions address of UK on our tweeter handle? A:. 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!
Q: Where can i find your games incase i want to see them? A: You can find it on apk pure. let me provide you links - https://m.apkpure.com/developer/6Ace%20Games
Q:How me monetized our games? A: Through admob and in-app products. Nothing shady!
Q:Our games was providing gambling? A: No, It's just simulations. You can't win money or bet money, Not at all!
Q: what about your domain 6acegames.com? A: Yes, our domain 6acegames.com is new. The reason behind it is very silly you may find it funny but still let me tell you!, at first we have bought domain sixacegames.com(you can check reg. details) thinking it will help in seo and all because we didn't want to include a number "6" in our domain. But later after our games got popular user started searching for 6Acegames that's why we bought this domain as well in may 2021 just to build the presence on google search.
Q:Why no presence on linkedin? A: Try searching "Whyphy Infotech". 6Acegames is just business name we use!
Q: What about social media? A:we are not very active in social media. As you can see in our tweeter handle we have 0 followers. The reason is simple we never promoted it to our users. Although we have some followers on our instagram handle, but they follow us because we provide free perks occestionally to our audience.
If you're being honest, I'd encourage you to use your name everywhere.
Put the company name on the website, terms and conditions page, play storage page, etc. Put the CEO's name on medium posts.
As it stands, it sure looks like you've gone to lengths to make it nearly impossible to figure out who you are. Which does not scream trustworthy.