Let's be honest, Steam nowadays has some serious problems, and it's not even about "(un)fair revenue share cut", but total lack of storefront products quality control and moderation. Since the launch of Steam Direct (a.k.a "pay us fee and we'll publish your game" program) the store got littered with lots of asset flip "Hentai/Waifu [something]" games, outright tasteless "funny/meme" games, games with blatantly homophobic or racist content, "sex games" featuring underage characters, and other kind of low-key indie games. And with all this trash there's something that can be found really rarely, but what leaves me totally speechless in shock, and I'm talking about games that blatantly infringe copyright protected works.
So, as usual, I was checking all closest upcoming releases in search for some underlooked goodies, but instead, I found this.
Apparently, some Russia-based indie studio (seriously, guys, stop making me feel the shame about country where I live) called "Mistake Game Studio" (speaks for itself) is about to release their debut project, Fairy Light, a 2D platformer "based" on Hiro Mashima's / Kodansha's "Fairy Tail" manga/anime series. And this game doesn't just haves some plagiarized images or character designs, but shamelessly use the entire Fairy Tail characters and setting without any minimal alterations. And of course neither of original author or IP owner are never mentioned nowhere, none of dev's pages at social media states this game as non-commercial fan game, but instead an Early Access Q&A section on Steam page has this:
Just for your information, Fairy Tail never got any non-mobile/web browser video game since 2012 and I highly doubt that Mistake Game Studio got any permission from Kodansha.
Seriously, how this even got approved for sale by someone at Valve? What kind of controversy they need to get involved with, so they could at least add premoderation?
So, as usual, I was checking all closest upcoming releases in search for some underlooked goodies, but instead, I found this.
Apparently, some Russia-based indie studio (seriously, guys, stop making me feel the shame about country where I live) called "Mistake Game Studio" (speaks for itself) is about to release their debut project, Fairy Light, a 2D platformer "based" on Hiro Mashima's / Kodansha's "Fairy Tail" manga/anime series. And this game doesn't just haves some plagiarized images or character designs, but shamelessly use the entire Fairy Tail characters and setting without any minimal alterations. And of course neither of original author or IP owner are never mentioned nowhere, none of dev's pages at social media states this game as non-commercial fan game, but instead an Early Access Q&A section on Steam page has this:
Just for your information, Fairy Tail never got any non-mobile/web browser video game since 2012 and I highly doubt that Mistake Game Studio got any permission from Kodansha.
Seriously, how this even got approved for sale by someone at Valve? What kind of controversy they need to get involved with, so they could at least add premoderation?
