Android Playstore Games Warning

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• mred2000 Posts: 10,050

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  03/02/16 - 09:32 #2

  Good of them to print the list of infected games... oh, they didn't...
  
  Surprising how many users/consumers just won't/don't take notice of the game developers names.

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• Aslan52 Posts: 2,882

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  03/02/16 - 20:16 #3

  Terrific advice there.
  
  "If you see a shoddy 'me-too' game in the store, don't bother with it, and stick to more reliable titles from proven studios."
  
  And how, pray tell, is a person supposed to KNOW they're looking at a "shoddy 'me too' game" as opposed to the reliable title from a proven studio?
  
  If there is a game in the Play Store called, perhaps, "Flippy Bird" or "Candy Crash" or "Fruit Warrior" how is one supposed to know that it's a knock-off game unless you happen to be aware of the original game?
  
  I can't help thinking that they're terrified of getting sued if they wrongly accuse some dev' of putting out malware.

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• FIN-MAN Posts: 1,598

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  04/02/16 - 06:55 #4

  Hopefully Google will freeze the games in question by those developers until an investigation can be assessed or they can prove that said games are clean. As was mentioned in one of the articles, the developer may not be aware that their game has been tampered. In that case they need to find out how it was and then correct the problem before being reinstated as a Google Play developer.
  
  On a side note, I noticed some of the developers are located in questionable countries so the level of suspicion just increases in my opinion.

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