Fragsworth Wrote:Hey reddit. Short background: several people, along with myself, started a small company, Playsaurus. We spent the past ~2 years without pay working to create [1] this game. It's called Cloudstone. It's kind of like Diablo, but with brighter colors, and in Flash. It hasn't made much money yet, and we're still working on it to try to improve things and to bring it to more audiences.
About a week ago, we discovered our game was [2] on a Chinese network. You need an account on that site play it. But don't give those assholes any money!
[3] Here are some screenshots to show the similarities. The images on the left are from our game, and the images on the right are from "their" game. [4] Here is their translated application page.
It's pretty clear that they blatantly, seriously ripped us off. They took our files, reverse-engineered the server, and hosted the game themselves with Chinese translations. They stole years of our hard work. We have no idea how many users they have or how much money they're making, but they have a pretty high rating on that site and they might be profiting off the stolen game more than we are.
Needless to say, we're a bit peeved. We're talking to lawyers, so this situation might get resolved eventually, but who knows how long it will take or if anything will even happen or how much it might cost. It's pretty frustrating to have your work stolen and there's not a whole hell of a lot you can do about it.

Takebacker Wrote:What does nexon have to do with this again?

Untradeable Wrote:Nexon is the publisher of Cloudstone.

Takebacker Wrote:All i see are four users of whom one of them HAPPENS to have the word nexon in it.

I see no legitimate ties to the Nexon we know...

Takebacker Wrote:All i see are four users of whom one of them HAPPENS to have the word nexon in it.

I see no legitimate ties to the Nexon we know...

Tristan Wrote:I hope Nexon get's sued, and I hope Nexon wins.