Well that beats the shit out of going through copyright law. What is his payment processor?
You realize he's stealing our content, profiting off of it, claiming it as his own, then contacting Patreon trying to get our games shut down, right? This is also my only source of income.
Don't DDOS anyone. What he's doing is illegal, and he knows it's illegal. What we're doing is not illegal. If we begin to fight fire with fire, we're both going to be in the wrong, and right now, we aren't.
Did I say anything that would make you think I am not aware he is stealing and profiting? These kind of issues have been around since inception of software, this is absolutely nothing new id say it was even expected to happen sooner or later as supply and demand grow. Like others said there is not much you can do, except serious legal action and perhaps reporting to payment processor.
Patreon did send me an email telling me they were going to remove my page (ban me) if I didn't remove all content sexualizing under aged girls (Which isn't something I'm doing). So it does look like Patreon is wanting to remove my page based on his report.
This would be a bad move that could complicate the issue, and the stealer/troll in this case is im betting actually hoping some developers do that. Developers should hire translators(i am sure its not extremely expensive nowadays). This is the only way to be sure you wont complicate the issue.How did I manage to miss this hilarious thread is beyond my comprehension.
Now this is kind of a tough situation since it is difficult to send the whole matter to court (which court by the way, the European one?).
So that made me think: what about one of you guys with money to lose pays for a subscription, downloads the games and then send it back to their respective devs, which in turn will put the thoroughly translated (and presumably correct) version to their patreon page? This is the easiest, most effortless thing that can be done imho and, in a way, it's sort of a win-win situation, or to better say, a steal-steal situation. >
Just my 2 cents.
If you don't have any content that is against their TOS then you don't have to worry. I am sure they manually review content before they do anything drastic. Even then I think this only applies for stuff you have directly posted/uploaded to patreon itself.
I think the steps above will do, IMO isn't renp'y easy to be hack? i use notepad and i easily see the code with some googling i can find vulnerabilities
They actually don't manually review content. They will never personally play my game to find out if I'm telling the truth. They always go off of reports. They do take a look at Patreon pages though, and well, a small chested girl in college wearing a college uniform could easily look like a young girl.
That would be hilariousHow did I manage to miss this hilarious thread is beyond my comprehension.
Now this is kind of a tough situation since it is difficult to send the whole matter to court (which court by the way, the European one?).
So that made me think: what about one of you guys with money to lose pays for a subscription, downloads the games and then send it back to their respective devs, which in turn will put the thoroughly translated (and presumably correct) version to their patreon page? This is the easiest, most effortless thing that can be done imho and, in a way, it's sort of a win-win situation, or to better say, a steal-steal situation. >
Just my 2 cents.
Anything can be hacked especially games where you can read/edit the code, but you can make it more difficult for those who try. So if you make it difficult enough to the point you would need to be a half decent programmer to crack it you would effectively solve the problem since anyone who knows anything of value usually doesn't waste time directly stealing other's work.
So they just ban people randomly based of random reports not bothering to check if reports are true or false? Do you know if this ever happened in practice(someone getting falsely and permanently banned based of false report/s)?
Not only do they apparently not even check, they'll just go off of only one report.
so that mean you have to remodeling ashley character to be more like 18 year's old gal?
Re modelling Ashley will not be possible for me. There's just way too much CGs in the game, it would take me a whole month or two to do. The easiest solution (if Patreon does say all sexual content with Ashley needs to be out of the game) would be to skip over all sexual content with Ashley, but keep her story.
That just doesn't make any sense, anyone could get anyone banned then and patreon wouldnt be making any money. Like you said they probably dont play the game, but they probably review the resource files themselves since the resources can be unpacked and quickly analysed. Srsly pulling 10k a month and they gonna ban you off 1 report, cmmon
Hah my registration timing does seem coincidental with the start of this thread but I hope you are joking since if you are serious your accusation would be founded in prejudice, which is not very nice - you know. Also it doesn't make sense since I never defended or justified the actions of the stealer/troll, all I said was some making too much fuss about it which I believe to be true and then made some points which I am not sure if you got.
Unfortunately, the kids in this pic are high schoolers, not university students. In Australia, “secondary college” is just our fancy way of saying high school. So these three are probably 16-17 year olds.
