DMCA'd game and purchases/datastores

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#1

Hi all,

Recently, my game “Beekeepers!” got content deleted due to copyright issues with the game Bee Swarm Simulator. We have been working to resolve this, and once we have changed the game enough that Onett feels we are no longer infringing, we will re-release it.

One problem: People keep messaging me and our other developer asking about whether their data will be kept or not. I have no idea how to answer this currently as we don’t know if we will ever have access to the original place and datastores.

This isn’t the main issue though. The actual issue is the people who spent thousands of Robux on our game. Some have started demanding refunds, even sending us death threats over it. The others are concerned because they bought it expecting the game to stay alive and are sad that they wasted their money.

All of our gamepass-esque purchases were actually Developer Products as we had a multi-save system, and all the purchases were saved to a datastore. We have at least over 50+ pages of sales that we just cannot manually reward. It’d take actual hours to days.

How often does the original universe/game get unlocked after a DMCA claim?
(Sorry for if the category is wrong, I couldn’t really find any other fitting ones, and datastores are scripting related.)

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#2

Sorry to go off-topic here, but how did your game get a copyright claim?

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#3

The original creator of Bee Swarm Simulator (Onett) DMCA claimed our game due to having the same themes and ideas (Beekeepers! was a fan game of BSS)

#4

I read this post months ago, Can you get banned for idea similarites?, so I was puzzled.

You can always make it so that if the player owns a game pass from that deleted game to earn the same perks still, I don’t have a solution for the Developer Products my best solution is to do an apology release where every user starts the game with X amount of currency?
I do know there’s a way to transfer data from an old game, but I’m pretty sure that the game still needs to run with scripts.

Sorry if this wasn’t what you were looking for!

#5

There are no gamepasses at all.

#6

Then you might need to do what Group Recruiting Plaza did when they moved their game, I don’t know how they did it, but they managed to achieve it!