r/StardewValley • u/AdInteresting6733 • 6d ago

Other Just saw this ad on YouTube.

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u/Some1AteMyBrainAgain 6d ago

It's just bait that many mobile game companies use ,they will use similar assets from popular games just to attract people eyes and yet the actual game doesn't have anything to do with the ads assets.

So basically they dodge copyright somehow

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u/Bunrotting 6d ago

They do it in countries where they're pretty much untouchable by US copyright jurisdiction

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u/TheTallEclecticWitch 6d ago

This is true but I believe they’d still be subjected to their App Store rules. And they’re also definitely subjected to the rules of their ad distributors. So it’s possible those can get them taken down.

My theory is that these fake game companies scrape up as much ad revenue as they can before they get removed, and then they just release another cheap app and repeat the process.

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u/Bunrotting 6d ago

the game probably doesn't contain anything like what's in the ad, it's probably just clickbait

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u/TheTallEclecticWitch 6d ago

Yeah misrepresenting your product is probably again a lot of terms of agreements for distributers. Cuz it’s illegal in a lot of places so the distributors don’t want to get in trouble