Anyways i gotta go.
Spam doesnât constitute a contract. I donât know how you could even suggest such a thing.
Short answer⌠YES. Making agreements via email can constitute a contract, which is why I said âof sortsâ. Jason has ample proof Dual Decade engaged in negotiations as to how to represent their port. They agreed with those conditions. Then⌠ChinaGate.
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The problem in here wasnât that they give to little credits to the actual game author. The problem was that they give to much credits to Jason, making people belive that the unofficial adaptation of the game was made by Jason.
As everyone know, this problem was caused by a third partie company. They did what they did without telling DualDecade about it, at the end, DualDecade team donât speak ether Chinese or Japanese. Thats why there were no ways to know what the third party sed in their 1 minute comertial, ether on the game demo app description.
Jason was asking for allot of stuff to be made in a small period of time, and during a weekend. During that time, DualDecade staff was on their days off. They did allot of work during those days. I know that they are looking for a better way to solve the problem. They are willing to fix it, and to fix it fastâŚ
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According to Christofferâs response the copyright is specifically for the app and the trademark is for the Chinese name of the app. Whether or not the Chinese name is a word for word translation of One Hour One Life I donât know.
So you canât distribute DDâs binary which contains DDâs code and is copyrighted, but it doesnât affect what you can do with Jasonâs code which is still in the Public Domain no matter what DD does.
I saw this thread now. Rather than answering each post, you can have a look at the post I made on Jasonâs forum, telling the story from my side.
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=48614#p48614
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Ah no i was just actually curious about the email thing. Was wondering if i could somehow get that scam money through legal actions 
I get about three calls a day from difreant âorganisationsâ trying to get money from me. And of course any of my gaming emails are always full of spam
Wasnt trying to sugest that and email between developers and spam mail were the same level.
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That Nigerian Prince better pay up forthwith!
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All you can do is read into the damages this is causing now.
When I seen all of the text by jason bringing this up on the pc I was expecting this to be more than just a public outcry of looking at this legally, relating it to other cases and such. It really is looking like a smear campaign. âUntil his demands are met.â He needs to make his demands clear in the first place and NEGOTIATE. Not try to take down something just because heâs worried about his âlegacyâ.
Has anyone played the demos available for games? Itâs ment to be free and short. A chinese demo representing and replacing an entire persons legacy is just ridiculous. His version of the game on pc will always be his game. Mobile is an entirely different market. Most people fail to give mobile games credit where credit is due.
Itâs done no good to start this as an open discussion and instead caused both forums unrest. I was hoping for more suggestions to be shared but it seems like people keep trying to take sides. Trying to guess what jason wants. Re-igniting this discussion for no reason each time.
Take a moment, sit back. Watch and learn. Donât react.
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Shnappers, have you played the Chinese demo of this game on TapTap?
My understanding is that it is not âfree and short,â but the full-featured game with no limitations.
Downloading it now on this end to check.
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Im actually curious if its even a proper demo to. I havnt used it but it might not even have a time limit or a number of lifes limit. Hopefully its just the tourtorial.
I havenât played this demo but Iâd be interested in checking it out.
Check it out ASAP.
So⌠it seems to be the full game.
After a short tutorial (which seems different from the old Mobile tutorial----there are NPCs running around talking to you, etc.)âŚ
I was born into the game with real players.
I canât read any of the text, so Iâm not sure if there are any limitations in place. But there donât seem to be.
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Maybe just a limited amount of server capacity?
I dont know seems to me like the demo is an excuse to test the waters while the chinese publishers make enough gameplay differences to warent their own undesputable copy right. Theyve even created npcs.
How would the publishers make gameplay changes? You think theyâd make their own app? I really doubt they have any kind of access to DDâs code.
I mean if the toturial is difreant like jason said. Oh he might have meant the gesster totorial.
I spawned into the tutorial. Did everything that jason just did. It also looks like you can watch ads to get a free food items given to you right before you die. The top servers look like the events. Iâve yet to spawn into a bottom server yet. It looks like a number of servers with âIOSâ are locked off.
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It looks like the bottom servers are with other players. Ill check to see for a technology limit tho
I figured it might have to do with Chinese regulations so I looked for some info and found a very interesting read.
https://www.appinchina.co/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-succeeding-in-the-chinese-app-market/
Especially this part, from section 3:
App Reclaiming
In China, the competition between app stores has become so fierce that itâs common for foreign companies to find that their app has already been unofficially distributed on some of the local stores. This means that before an officially stamped version (âĺŽćšçâ) of an app can be published, proof of ownership will need to be provided to get the unofficial versions taken down.
My massive google translate skills tells me that ĺŽćšç means âThe official versionâ and this section probably part of the explanation for why the publisher used that phrase in their marketing. Might also explain DDâs unwillingness to put âUnofficialâ in the name.