To All Game Devs Another One Trying To Make Money Off Your Work

larry5168

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The games are offered for free there as well just he now has a Patreon linked to it

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polywog

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Agent HK47

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So basically, by hosting your shit there, anyone who downloads your game now owns the rights to it and can do anything with it, including selling it? Thats what I got from reading that at least. Sounds..... wishful, at best.
 

Avaron1974

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I find it hilarious people are being charged to pirate games and they actually found people willing to pay for those pirated games.

You know how the old saying goes, a fool and his money are easily parted.
 

polywog

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So basically, by hosting your shit there, anyone who downloads your game now owns the rights to it and can do anything with it, including selling it? Thats what I got from reading that at least. Sounds..... wishful, at best.
That's the MIT license "Open-Source" Included in the Ren'py VN Engine.

Open source is good for everyone. It's very rewarding knowing that starving children in Africa are able to play open-source games for free. Some of those villages are controlled by warlords who charge children to play free games. :(

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Agent HK47

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That's the MIT license "Open-Source" Included in the Ren'py VN Engine.

Open source is good for everyone. It's very rewarding knowing that starving children in Africa are able to play open-source games for free. Some of those villages are controlled by warlords who charge children to play free games. :(

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I should have waited until I was awake, before reading that TOS I think. Anywho, haven't seen the minesweeper meme before, so you will get an upvote ^^
 

gamersglory

Xpression Games
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The games are offered for free there as well just he now has a Patreon linked to it

Spread the word Please

Thanks for the heads up :)
 
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RanliLabz

Creating SpaceCorps XXX
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Mar 5, 2018
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This is a pretty disgusting rip off - people can waste their money on something that would otherwise be free all they like, but I don't see why AdultGamesOn should be able to sell my game as if they have some rights over it. Christ, the other pirate sites don't do that! They just get ad revs and donations and I get exposure... They don't then stick their Patreon banner under my work!

AdultGamesOn is also being actively fraudulent. In their Patreon overview they ask for money: "Because we have to pay our developers for every design or technical updates". Well, I haven't been paid a cent by AdultGamesOn, and they've posted my game up twice.

I'm going to take a stand on this one - or scam-Patreons like this will proliferate until it's impossible to make any money for equipment or assets. I'm going to report them to Patreon - and I suggest that any other dev they're ripping off should do the same!
 

batman666

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Instead of paying for such a scam Patreon, we'd all be better off if those 20$ are spent on 1-2 actual Patreon sites for games we really enjoy. And maybe give another 5$ to F95 for the excellent forum that's provided to us. Like others here said, you could start a Patreon for invisible bananas and there'd still be 20 people dumb enough to put cash into it.
 

mickydoo

Fudged it again.
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Jan 5, 2018
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This is a pretty disgusting rip off - people can waste their money on something that would otherwise be free all they like, but I don't see why AdultGamesOn should be able to sell my game as if they have some rights over it. Christ, the other pirate sites don't do that! They just get ad revs and donations and I get exposure... They don't then stick their Patreon banner under my work!

AdultGamesOn is also being actively fraudulent. In their Patreon overview they ask for money: "Because we have to pay our developers for every design or technical updates". Well, I haven't been paid a cent by AdultGamesOn, and they've posted my game up twice.

I'm going to take a stand on this one - or scam-Patreons like this will proliferate until it's impossible to make any money for equipment or assets. I'm going to report them to Patreon - and I suggest that any other dev they're ripping off should do the same!
I just reported them too.
 
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macadam

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Aug 5, 2016
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i doubt that real patrons. thoses are probably the creators of this website themself putting some fake patreon alt account into it to show peoples that its legit and all. (happened alots already)
Those are dumb... They don't seem to know how to use a search engine.
 
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macadam

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i lol'ed at my game being pressent in there.

as its 100% free anyway, must be really idiot to pay for something completly free XD
 

recreation

pure evil!
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Jun 10, 2018
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i lol'ed at my game being pressent in there.

as its 100% free anyway, must be really idiot to pay for something completly free XD
My game is there too and you can download it for free on their site too. That's why I don't really care^^
As long as its free...