LukaszO

Re:Tell HN: Google bans my game for referencing Covid-19, which I desi... on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @06:00AM (#23233137)

That's true, but unfortunately in reality you don't have any other viable places to distribute your game because the market is already monopolized. If you want to reach the biggest userbase you must release your product in the most popular stores.

What is the best place to release premium android game? Google Play - biggest userbase, integrated payment, integrated with your google account.

Re:Tell HN: Google bans my game for referencing Covid-19, which I desi... on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @05:13AM (#23232878)

I agree with you, thanks to the Podcast Addict case more people will know about google practices. It took very popular app to make it to the mainstream news and i hope the change will be for the better and maybe small developers will also be heard in this discussion.

Re:Tell HN: Google bans my game for referencing Covid-19, which I desi... on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @02:11AM (#23231752)

I wanted to add that i successfully ran game promoting ads on Google Ads and Facebook Ads through the whole March, without any limiting despite having "virus" words in the ad.

Re:Tell HN: Google bans my game for referencing Covid-19, which I desi... on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @01:41AM (#23231592)

Thanks for the info, i changed videos order. You can set the language for the video and screenshots but it somehow displays for everyone.

Re:Tell HN: Google bans my game for referencing Covid-19, which I desi... on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:23PM (#23230357)

"where I assume your goal is to kill as many people as possible with a virus" Game goal is the opposite. I can't imagine i can run funds or donate anything, i am a single private person, ndemic creations is a professional company.

You can check out the game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1305370/Pandemia_Virus_Ou...

Re:Google bans my events app for referencing Covid-19, or related terms on Monday May 18, 2020 @07:07PM (#23229433)

I successfully ran game promoting ads at the end of march, without any limiting despite having "virus" words in the ad. 2 weeks later, the game was released and got banned on Google Play one week after the release.

More story and screenshots here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229073

Re:Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content on Monday May 18, 2020 @06:46PM (#23229274)

Similar thing happened to me with my game. You can read the story here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229073

Tell HN: Google bans my game for referencing Covid-19, which I designed in 2017

Posted by LukaszO on Monday May 18, 2020 @06:20PM
from the self-post dept.

Hey i heard about the Podcast Addict app, this is sad news for all of us, because the bots are banning everything that could be a reference to COVID-19 which is quite a hyprocrytical move. They changed their whole Google Hangout app to become Google Meet to profit of the virus.I designed a game about the Pandemic in January 2017, i was slowly developing it being inspired by Reigns and Plague...

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