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I guess you are right, we can't count those 60k$ as a money stolen from us, its more like "lost profits", and 30% of those money is Apple fee. I keep trying to force apple at least shutdown thiefs account, and I already accepted that someone just earned profit from our work without permission or any right to do so.
Thanks for your support!
We consulted a couple of lawyers already, and here what we have:
We can go to court and we would win. The problem is that we will never find a person, who is responsible for that, because Apple don't check developers documents, and it's very easy to register Apple account with fake ID (I checked it myself yesterday when I submitted their form, they don't ask any documents at all, also my old friend who is working at Apple now and helping me with that case told me the same).
So, we will spent big amount of money for the lawyer, sue and so on. We will win. But no one will pay us compensation and no one will cover our legal service spendings. And as a result, thief will run with 60k$, and we will lose 5-10k+$ more for legal service in the UK (which is very expensive). If you have another opinion on that, I would like to hear it.
Thanks for kind words! Currently difficulty system works like this: generates two absolutely random parents, than makes a baby based on those parens, than generates random babies, and for each random baby game checks that at least one parameter will be different from correct one. You suggested adjustement to it is totally correct, I guess I will do like that in the future development.
If you can download game build (and you can even for web games) you can decompile it with one tool (in our case its GDRE Tools) and than you have all the code, all game assets, everything.
I didn't know that it's soo easy before our game was stolen, when I started to dig into that theme, I tried to rebuild our game from web page, and I was able to do it in 7 minutes. So if thief do this regulary, he can rebuild our game even faster.
Yep, the thief has deleted both stolen games from his account after we raised some noise about situation, and now his tries to run out with money. According ArsTechnica article, he made about 60.000$ on our game before he removed it from store.
Hi there! I just wanted to let you know that your game "Kiosk" has been stolen and uploaded to the App Store without permission. Here's the link to the stolen version: https://apps.apple.com/my/app/kiosk-food-night-shift/id6633431705
I’m dealing with the same issue with my own game — it looks like this person is targeting itch.io projects. Just wanted to give you a heads-up in case you want to file a DMCA takedown. You can send report to Apple here.