[casual_games] Big piracy problem!
Andres Quijano
tulsidas at gmail.com
Wed Jun 4 12:17:39 EDT 2008
ah... the marketing!
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Chanon Sajjamanochai
<chanon at viquasoft.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm running into a very bad piracy problem with our latest game.
> The google search results for First Class Flurry has a pirated version on
> the first page.
> It is not a torrent site but a page with a direct download link:
> http:// gamyy dot com / english / games / 1435 . htm
> (url obfuscated, replace dot with . and remove spaces)
>
> I fear that I might be losing tons of sales because of this.
>
> If you look at the home page:
> http:// gamyy dot com / english / index . htm
> You might even see your own game.
>
> What can I/we do?
>
> If you look at the alexa traffic history of this site you will see that it's
> traffic is increasing very rapidly - meaning we're all possibly losing tons
> of sales because of it.
>
> I think this is a lot worse than torrent sites, because I think the target
> demographic doesn't use bittorrent. This is just a simple download from a
> simple webpage.
>
> For me, I hope that as First Class Flurry goes up on more sites/portals,
> they will help push this page down. But even for Dream Chronicles 2 I'm
> seeing the gamyy page of it on only the 4th google search result page.
>
> Thanks for reading and I'd love to hear your ideas.
>
> Chanon
> Viqua Games
>
>
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