Kingshot?

[Logistical_Nightmare]

I hope the game called Kingshot is you guys, because they are using your game-play to advertise their game. I love your game and wanted to say something just in case!

[Inky]

They are also using their music. Hope it gets taken down

[1010Jan1010]

Just saw this ad aswell, even the music sounds similar to thronefall

[scorch1324]

i hope its a easy legal thing, Ive seen ads with the exact music. music is a bit of a easier copyright to push on than gameplay but its never easy and such companies are great at scamming

[Verac]

That plagiarism is just down right disgusting

[Bingus]

Just came here to raise awareness about the same thing. I found their email address and wrote to them as well. It's such scummy behaviour.

[akaplan1]

The ads are only getting more frequent. There is a huge marketing push behind Kingshot, at least on YouTube. Tons of ads with fake streamers playing and reacting to the game. The ads are super obnoxious, even ignoring how blatant of a ripoff the game is. I hate it.

[A Stupendous Confectionery]

Escrito originalmente por Firedorn:

Came here to say this too - such abhorrent behavior! Screw those guys.

The blatant plagiarism in their advertisement (even on their social media page, yes they made a page just for the game) I genuinely don't get how the person making the mobile copycat doesn't feel like scum

at this point is seems we the players care more about this plagiarism more than the devs of Thronefall do based on how many posts we the players made compared to the radio silence from the devs

[Sdaan]

Hey hey everybody!

Sorry if it feels we haven't been very vocal about this situation; it's indeed something we've addressed on Discord much more than on the Steam forums.

I'll answer here hoping this'll clarify our stance on the matter.

We're thankful to see so many of you messaging us and posting here to report those, but as you might or might not have seen, we got overwhelmed by how many messages about this we got already. It must be in the hundreds by now.

Something worth noting is that, though they're clearly using Thronefall's systems (with some differences, I guess, maybe?) they've copied assets and music, not used our own, so it's technically not stealing. (As far as we're aware, at least.) It's what a lot of these games do; flirting with legality so they don't get in trouble, while heavily "taking inspiration" from already existing games.

In the past, in Thronefall's Early Access, we sent a report to the Google Playstore for one such game, and they didn't do anything.

It's annoying, but it is what it is for now and it doesn't really bother us all that much, honestly. Being a small 2-man dev team + me as the CM, there's really only so much we can do, and the devs much prefer to focus their energy on working on a new game rather than trying to chase down those guys, which I can understand.

We appreciate the initiative and the intention, but since we're slowly moving on from Thronefall, (as we stated in multiple News post, namely the 2.11 and 2.06 update news post) and copycats / ripoffs are really like weeds, we've just given up on investing any time and energy into doing anything.

I hope this helps. Thank you again!

Cheers!

[A Stupendous Confectionery]

Escrito originalmente por Sdaan:

Hey hey everybody!

Sorry if it feels we haven't been very vocal about this situation; it's indeed something we've addressed on Discord much more than on the Steam forums.

I'll answer here hoping this'll clarify our stance on the matter.

We're thankful to see so many of you messaging us and posting here to report those, but as you might or might not have seen, we got overwhelmed by how many messages about this we got already. It must be in the hundreds by now.

Something worth noting is that, though they're clearly using Thronefall's systems (with some differences, I guess, maybe?) they've copied assets and music, not used our own, so it's technically not stealing. (As far as we're aware, at least.) It's what a lot of these games do; flirting with legality so they don't get in trouble, while heavily "taking inspiration" from already existing games.

In the past, in Thronefall's Early Access, we sent a report to the Google Playstore for one such game, and they didn't do anything.

It's annoying, but it is what it is for now and it doesn't really bother us all that much, honestly. Being a small 2-man dev team + me as the CM, there's really only so much we can do, and the devs much prefer to focus their energy on working on a new game rather than trying to chase down those guys, which I can understand.

We appreciate the initiative and the intention, but since we're slowly moving on from Thronefall, (as we stated in multiple News post, namely the 2.11 and 2.06 update news post) and copycats / ripoffs are really like weeds, we've just given up on investing any time and energy into doing anything.

I hope this helps. Thank you again!

Cheers!

You 2 devs are awesome and not letting it bother you both too much is smart, if you can't change it don't stress about it and you arent encouraging your dedicated players that love your game to review bomb which is very respectful

I'll be keeping an eye on any future projects you 2 indie devs do and look forward to more great bitesized games !

Editied cuz I posted twice*

[Grasshopper K]

The only real way they can do something about it is to port Thronefall to both mobile stores.
The only thing we can really do in continuously block the adverts when we get them on our YT feed or on any other social media. Or, to download it for 3 minutes, review it with one star and delete it (off our mobile store library).

[Rothana]

I came here for exactly this issue, and I’m glad this thread gave me a clear answer. I keep seeing ads for Kingshot. It looks rather fun but it also seemed a bit off and like one of these scammy apps. Wanted to check if it was legit or not before DLing it. I won’t give those scammers a click let alone a loony.

Love Thronefall! Down with Kingshot!