Comments for Game Tycoon

Comment on Bucking Convention with RotMG by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:20:35 +0000

Don’t you mean “average revenue per paying user” (ARPPU), or is there some timeframe for your ARPU?

Comment on Standing up for ourselves by Ant

Ant — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:29:09 +0000

I saw Yettie Town by 6L and immediately knew you had disclosed your information with them while negotiating a publishing deal. This is ugly. Justice needs to be done!

Comment on Announcing Steambirds Survival for iOS by Henrik

Henrik — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:59:42 +0000

Hey!
Steambirds Survival is great on iOS, really dig it! Great work!
I’m also a developer and exploring the possibility for micro transactions and IAP. So I was wondering if you have any public numbers of how the free version is doing in terms of sales. Or if you have any numbers on the flash versions that you can reveal?
Thanks!

Comment on Standing up for ourselves by Michael Kelley

Michael Kelley — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:03:11 +0000

I’m an indie developer who has created some potentially revolutionary “hardware” technology at SUNY Fredonia’s tech incubator. I had been in the process of feeling 6Waves out as a potential investor when they asked me to sign their NDA on the 23rd of January and reveal to them the particulars of the new tech.

I’m so glad that I put it off and that I’m now aware of their thieving ways!

Comment on Standing up for ourselves by Astrology

Astrology — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:07:36 +0000

best of luck for future

Comment on Standing up for ourselves by Bil Simser

Bil Simser — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:27:52 +0000

IANAL but frankly this crosses the line between inspiration and stealing. In fact IMHO it’s nowhere near the line. I tried out Yeti Town as it looked interesting then a few minutes later I was scratching my head saying “Wait a minute…” and began looking for the SpryFox logo, thinking this was licensed from them or something.

There are a lot of comments on the various Gamasutra articles about people saying “Well, you can’t fight innovation” and that “everyone with a match 3 game should be suing Bejeweled”. C’mon people, just look at the two products. This is not “Oh hey, TT is a pretty cool twist on match 3, I think I’ll build something like it”. This was “Triple Town: Screen One, Yeti Town + DevTools: Screen Two”. When it gets down to matching the exact monetary details and game mechanics it’s pure and blatant plagurism.

I agree you guys should be making games but this kind of thing cannot go without reprise (and the fact that they blatantly paraded their product on Gamasutra and try to defend it as “natural process” is a slap in the face). 6waves Sethi went on to say “a lot of other match-three games out there that are similar” but frankly there isn’t. I think TT has turned the match-three principle on it’s head and been very successful with it. Similar games? I haven’t seen any that work on the concept of “building” rather than “collecting” or “destroying” (but then I haven’t seen *every* game out there).

Good for you guys and hope everything works out in the end however knowing the legal system I imagine this will be in courts for a long time with potentially little result.

Please keep us updated. Your transparency is your asset.

Comment on Standing up for ourselves by Trapdaar

Trapdaar — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:39:18 +0000

Lolapps must be an incredibly horrible company. They should be renamed to Loserapps. Best of luck to you Spry Fox. We hope you continue making great games.

Comment on Standing up for ourselves by Sam

Sam — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:37:03 +0000

Someone I know works at Lolapps and I questioned him/her about the matter. (Sorry, can’t disclose said person’s identity), he/she is forbidden from discussing the matter outside the office and can’t comment. But I can tell that said person isn’t happy about the situation either because it hurts every single one of their employee’s reputation in the long run, even when they weren’t directly involved in Yeti Town.

It’s also frustrating because if they can do this to you guys, what else to their own employee? And given the economy situation, a good job is hard to find these days and surface to say, Lolapps do treat their workers well with benefits and decent pay.

They have proven themselves to be extremely untrustworthy in the way they have handled this case. Legally, they might be able to get away with this due to the loophole they discovered, but morally, this is just despicable and simply disgusting and everyone of us knows it. In a way, anyone who comes up with a name LOL apps can’t be taken seriously and can’t be trusted. “LOL seriously?”

I wish you guys all the best. Those who are knowledgeable about the social gaming industry will know this and support you guys all the way, I’m sure.

Comment on Who is a bad customer? by Frank Gilson

Frank Gilson — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:25:23 +0000

Luke’s final point is valid. You can use certain software and a very good internet connection (speed + bandwidth) to send a tremendous number of transaction requests to a web game all at once. Very often you’ll find that you are able to make spurious purchases. That particular case can be fixed by anticipating it, but Free To Play does not entirely avoid bad actors.

Comment on Standing up for ourselves by Pharna

Pharna — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:19:37 +0000

Is there an Indie Legal Defense Fund? If not, this sounds like the time to start one.