Response to Game Stealing
adent42
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I posted this at the end of one of the original threads, but I though I'd put it in a new thread to give people a chance to respond.
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Greetings and salutation,
It saddens us to find that a GameSalad member copied other member’s games from gamesalad.com and submitted the copied games to the iTunes App Store. We have terminated the responsible member’s account and are taking steps to prevent this individual from returning to our community.
It is unfortunate that some users choose to take advantage of the open nature of the web and the spirit of sharing in our community. In the past we have been able to resolve these incidents amicably for all involved, but we realize that as the community grows, GameSalad needs to be more active in protecting our users.
In the short term, we will be working on updates to the plug-in and server that will make grabbing game files much more difficult. With this new release, the direct URL to the game project files will no longer be available in the source code of the page, making it more difficult to grab game files. (On the off chance where you have used an embed code from GameSalad, you will need to update this code for games to continue working with the new plug-in.)
We are also in the process of creating a longer term solution that would divorce the published versions of games from the save format.
GameSalad is about sharing and collaboration, not stealing. We will not tolerate individuals who misappropriate or misuse our members’ games. We will assist any member who is harmed by the unlawful actions of a third party, including cooperation with Apple and the appropriate legal authorities.
I hope that you will all continue to be active contributing members of the community. Games not published to gamesalad.com are not affected. Until we deploy our new solutions, please contact us if you want your game removed from our web site listing.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to Contact Us, through this link or the one located in the footer of this page. I’ll be making at sticky blog post as soon as these measures have been implemented.
Thank you for your patience and support.
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Greetings and salutation,
It saddens us to find that a GameSalad member copied other member’s games from gamesalad.com and submitted the copied games to the iTunes App Store. We have terminated the responsible member’s account and are taking steps to prevent this individual from returning to our community.
It is unfortunate that some users choose to take advantage of the open nature of the web and the spirit of sharing in our community. In the past we have been able to resolve these incidents amicably for all involved, but we realize that as the community grows, GameSalad needs to be more active in protecting our users.
In the short term, we will be working on updates to the plug-in and server that will make grabbing game files much more difficult. With this new release, the direct URL to the game project files will no longer be available in the source code of the page, making it more difficult to grab game files. (On the off chance where you have used an embed code from GameSalad, you will need to update this code for games to continue working with the new plug-in.)
We are also in the process of creating a longer term solution that would divorce the published versions of games from the save format.
GameSalad is about sharing and collaboration, not stealing. We will not tolerate individuals who misappropriate or misuse our members’ games. We will assist any member who is harmed by the unlawful actions of a third party, including cooperation with Apple and the appropriate legal authorities.
I hope that you will all continue to be active contributing members of the community. Games not published to gamesalad.com are not affected. Until we deploy our new solutions, please contact us if you want your game removed from our web site listing.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to Contact Us, through this link or the one located in the footer of this page. I’ll be making at sticky blog post as soon as these measures have been implemented.
Thank you for your patience and support.
Comments
Darren.
The longer term solution is in the works and involves changing the final deploy format so that it's not usable as a starting point on the tool.
JCFord
I also would suggest that if people want to upload their games, strip out some of the important stuff. I typically only upload a youtube video of my game in action, if I wanted to post to the web, I'd remove all but the scene I want to show, throw a copyright notice up and watermark my images.
it sucks that we have to do this, but there will always be people who try to make a quick buck at other's expense. I'm just glad the GS team takes this as seriously as we do, and is doing something to combat it.
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JCFord
So, no, don't post anything yet. I have a feeling it will be in a yellow sticky once it has been resolved.
Keep up the good work. GS is an awesome tool.
Maya
Just wondering why our source code needs to make this trip to the GameSalad server and back. Unnecessary risk for access to hackers? And if it's only for the splash screen, when Unity can do that on our computers, why can't GameSalad do the same?
The only risk is when you upload a game to the server to be played on the web. Because there is some way to access the download file even when its set as a non downloadable project
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