Sorry but what exactly happened with timestamps? If it's not too much to ask?
Very roughly speaking, Timestamps: Unconditional Love and its sequel Timestamps: Lost Love were developed by Motkeyz, in terms of the artistic aspect, and Aesouh, who took care of the code using his own customization of the Unity engine.
The first was released on Steam in January 2023, while the second is still in development. For over a year, we waited for Aesouh to finish coding the last chapter so that the game could be release too, but, for reasons of his own, the work suffered continuous delays, and in the end, Motkeyz, who had already started working alone on the next title using Ren'py, decided it was time to do something and, with the help of others, decided to bring Timestamps: Lost Love to Ren'py and release it as soon as it was ready. This led Aesouh to contest Motkeyz's rights to publish the two games, so Steam, I guess at the request of Aesouh, or something like that, retired both titles until the two resolve the dispute.
Now, as I said, this is very rough, you can find more details in these three posts in the Timestamps: Lost Love thread (
post 1,
post 2, and
post 3 inside the spoiler), of course there is also information in the posts before and after
[Edit: the hopefully last part of the Timestamps situation can be found here:
post 4 inside the spoiler]
Anyway, what matters here is that it's actually possible for the developer or publisher to take action in the event of a title being illegally published, presumably if they have the documents, or tools, to prove authorship or involvement in its development. Reporting the title as stolen via the game's Steam page hasn't yielded any results, just like coming to F95 and saying, "It's not me, don't buy the game on Steam!"
