As reported by Polygon and TorrentFreak, Mob Leisure, the studio behind fashionable 5 Nights at Freddy’s-alike Poppy Playtime, has filed a lawsuit towards Google for failing to take away fraudulent Poppy Playtime apps from its Android Play Retailer.
At first blush, I assumed this needed to do with these bizarre pretend video games whose advertisements you see throughout YouTube and Twitter, nevertheless it’s one way or the other even worse than that: The outfit in query, Daigo Recreation 2020, has merchandise on the Play Retailer actually titled “Poppy Playtime Chapter 4” and “Poppy Playtime: Chapter 3.” On the time of writing, these apps are nonetheless accessible for obtain. Daigo Recreation 2020’s earlier works, together with “Minecraft 2020” and a sampling of equally unlicensed Skibidi Bathroom video games, have unsurprisingly been faraway from the shop.
The false Poppies have a staggering 1.1 million downloads between the 2 of them. The apps are free, a kind of “too good to be true” temptation seemingly concentrating on Poppy Playtime’s youthful and fewer savvy followers. Like FNAF earlier than it, Poppy Playtime strikes me as a type of little cousin/nephew phenomena, and Mob Leisure boasts a mind-boggling 40 million gamers of its video games throughout all platforms. After downloading the pretend apps, customers are prompted to pay between $30 and $95 to entry the “sport,” with the cost netting you nothing greater than a “hyperlink to a useless webpage” in keeping with the lawsuit.
Mob Leisure says Google took the imposter apps down after inquiries and a DMCA request, solely to bafflingly reinstate them days later. Mob Leisure is asking for the apps to be taken down for actual this time, in addition to $150,000 in damages for every one.
I do know that Google is a gigantic firm, with YouTube and the Play Retailer seemingly present in their very own silos, however this completely confounding unforced error is barely extra absurd when you think about how aggressive Google is about copyright takedowns within the firm’s different initiatives. Tales of YouTubers dinged with fraudulent or frivolous copyright claims are fairly frequent, and Nintendo has even used this method to focus on channels that showcase emulators. The Daigo Recreation 2020 state of affairs is decidedly not that, and it is a marvel the outfit was even allowed to proceed importing to the app retailer after its Minecraft and Skibidi-related ventures.
