@Developers Illegal copy "Survive on Raft" ?

[Suppenkoch]

Hi there,

please pay attention to the following game. It seems to be an illegal copy of yours. I of course have no clue if it is so, but in your interest you may have a look.
Thanks

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1094000/Survive_on_Raft/

[❃ Galiäna Krüger ❃]

If you got problem with survive on raft devs for 1:1 copying Raft go ahead sue them, not my business

[Nightwolf]

How is this still being allowed on steam?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1094000/Survive_on_Raft/

its a blatant rift off that openly tries to trick, albeit really stupid people, into buying what they think is another game...

[Buzzard]

And the devs know about it. There's a few threads about it already. Yes, that crap should be subject to a number of legal challenges. This is also Steam, which is really quick to handle some things, and glacially slow on others.

[UndeadDomain]

Survive on Raft on Switch? When Switch Port of Raft?

In case you haven't seen, Survive on Raft, the Raft copycat, got its game on Switch. How did they get there first? Are we gonna see a port to Switch some time in the near future? I know legal stuff is expensive but this crud with them is reaching ridiculous levels if they got on Console. Just venting, but it is annoying.

[❃ Galiäna Krüger ❃]

Copycat always go faster than OG, it is how it is.

Just don't play that crap game and you're all good.

Also I will bet Raft will be playable on Steam Deck way before Switch.

What's Switch Again? ;)

[Anonymous Helper]

引用自 UndeadDomain：

Survive on Raft on Switch? When Switch Port of Raft?

In case you haven't seen, Survive on Raft, the Raft copycat, got its game on Switch. How did they get there first? Are we gonna see a port to Switch some time in the near future?

The developers plan to complete Raft on Windows first before considering supporting other platforms whether it's Mac, Linux or Consoles.

https://support.redbeetinteractive.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007241172-Do-you-support-Mac-Linux-and-will-Raft-come-to-consoles-

[Numina Lucy]

引用自 Anonymous Helper：

According to a post on discord, the developers are already aware. Whether or not they can do anything about it, we'll just have to wait and see. Mobile market is littered with Raft clones for some reason. Survive on Raft is just one of them.

As far as I can tell, this is almost 1:1 copy of the original Raft prototype[raft.itch.io]. I've no idea why anyone would buy this on PC:

https://youtu.be/9tZ1HT5mFzE

the "survive on raft" game is also now on Nintendo switch, for a whopping $25. i don't even know how to report an illegal game to Nintendo. I could have sworn they were legal sticklers, but apparently not.

[❃ Galiäna Krüger ❃]

Continue showing copycat's link on OG's discussion isn't helping. Will only make more people want to check it out.

[Feri Ferdinan]

So many rip-offs of Raft

I really like this game. I hope the developers keep updating the game so the original game doesn't get buried by rip-offs.

[Druinthor]

Seems like a strange post. If the "rip offs" are better then this game will be buried by them. If they are not then why would they impact this game at all.

The world is full of clones of other games and there are a lot of examples where clones improve on the original concept. Clones might appear that are almost exactly the same but have more in one area that attracts one crowd or another one in a different area that attracts another crowd. That's the industry!

[lee_bobbins]

I saw a game that was pretty much identical, except it was a lot more primitive. Like an exact copy of the first Raft ever made. I forget the name, I was going to mention it to Anonymous Helper after the update. I found it through that bsteam website. It wasn't just a similar/same idea, it was IDENTICAL but with a different name.

I'm guessing it might seriously upset the devs, so discussing it with them needs to be approached delicately. The only good news is that it had exactly zero players, :-) Anyway, up to them how they handle it. I know EA sued the crap out of anyone for years who even thought about copying TheSims. Got to protect your intellectual property...

[ULTRA]

Considering the game more or less started as a practice version of Stranded Deep to begin with and yet is more popular, there's probably no cause for concern

[Weaver]

The developers are aware, especially the ones that use a very similar name. However due to different countries laws and everything else, any sort of legal action would be prohibitively expensive. And of course some countries like China make ripping off IPs a way of life and won't lift a finger to prevent it, they encourage it.

The most blatant clone of Raft even made their forum for game owners only so they couldn't be called out on their crap. You'll notice all their other listed games are blatant ripoffs as well, also with closed forums.
Valve of course could care less as long as they can't be held legally responsible, profit is all that matters to them.

[lee_bobbins]

引用自 Anarchist Jurisdictor：

Considering the game more or less started as a practice version of Stranded Deep to begin with and yet is more popular, there's probably no cause for concern

Stranded Deep, your base is built on an island or I guess from the discussions, sounds like you set up a mini base on each island you visit. Their "raft" is just a very basic and ugly canoe, can't do any building or live on it.

So the only thing those two have in common is that they're both survival games set in tropical area. Which can be said about many survival games.

The game I saw the other day on that steamb website, otoh, was a straight up pixel-for-pixel copy with a different name. <<< HAHAHAHA maybe the people complaining about how "slow" our devs are, should go buy that one. :D :D :D

[Druinthor]

Original free game is still here if anyone is curious,
https://raft.itch.io/raft

Did some googling regarding your comment that Raft was a clone of Stranded Deep and yes it was released first in 2015 (still in early access btw) while Raft was started in 2016.