My android game was removed by the Flow Free devs because it contained the word "Flow", what do I do?

And if he did delete files, which it seems he did not, that doesn't make him evil. Just shady at worst.

Being a billion dollar industry who sues Notch over the use of the use of "Scrolls", crying trademark, suing Carmack, all the incredibly shady shit they do in ESO & marketing targeting humans with addiction problems, and their buggy half-assed releases of major titles & consistent giving of the finger to consumers & modders- all in the pursuit of sheer corporate greed- is the evil part.

Profit-Motive Capitalism alone is an enormous evil in our world, let alone all the asshole moves big corporations do on a yearly basis to both their targets & even their ally consumers.

It's not hard to "Not be evil". Most indie game companies are stand up guys. Others, like the creators of Witcher 3, actually help the industry move towards a better world (GoG). It's the corporate giants who get too large & then use their billion-dollar power to exploit the industry, never giving anything back to the community that's a problem. I won't even go into what it's like for the employees (codemonkeys / lowly artists) of the AAA giants. Most end up wanting to blow their brains out, and crunch alone is this enormous evil that plagues our industry. But but...FOR THE PROFITS right? Bleh.

In fact for the most part? It's only the largest corporations who seem to do any real damage. I don't see small time developers like Klei or Bluebottle Games suing people over petty shit. You don't hear about their employees going into depression & ending their gamedev careers due to shitty practices or total lack of creative control. It's corporations like EA, Zenimax, Valve, that have big problems for the industry - one way or another. Although EA seems to have laid off their bullshit...strangely O.o I assume it's just out of the limelight there, heh. Things got really bad in the days of harsh DRM... Ubisoft... Sim City... these corps are such a joke.

Shadowrunner for Life, yo!

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