festershinetop (9572) on 10/30/2008 8:16 PM · Permalink · Report

Yeah people have been doing it for years. I remember searching for "in this game you play the role of" + ebay in google and it found about 50 + games with my description and screenshots. I always start my description off with that line.

I contacted the person in question who'd copied by description and screenshots and they claimed they get the games and descriptions from a supplier. I asked who this supplier was and they never replied back. I did email them and ask that they put a link to mobygames at the bottom of the description and state that's where it originated but again i was ignored.

I suppose thats just the downside of having a massive archive of quality information and screenshots, someone is gonna start taking without giving anything back.

If it were Play.Com or Amazon id be more annoyed but its just the way it goes

Also the game in question was dalek attack on a CD-R and it was so obviously not an official game but a pirate copy yet ebay didnt want to know when i reported it and the seller still sells these today.