What's the best way to deal with fake clones of your own game?

Yeah, its sad but I have for the first time in my life now experienced this…

My game called PhotoV was the first game to ever introduce the possibility of recording and “storing” a video in game. It was even so groundbreaking to be featured in this video talking about the most mind-blowing games on Roblox! thanks to that YouTuber my game took off, it was the first game that I had made that took off.

Now to the issue, as you see in the image above a fake copy has suddenly appeared, the name of this guys is who made it is “desc_rwcore” and it looks to almost be some kind of alt account, since I’d have the feeling that would be the goto strategy for someone who just rips off the icon and thumbnail and calls it your very own game. When you join the game it’s just a baseplate. But still I think I have to do something, as I don’t want to be at the risk of getting negative reviews from a copy of my game.

So what is the best way of fixing/banning this game, and future games with this exact form of execution if possible?

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thats huge achievement for being able to record and store a video ingame

anyways u can use roblox rights feature or roblox support to get the game taken down, u have enough evidence ( i think )

Could u also give me the game link? i wanna try it

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I would file a DMCA report. That should work for you!

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Hmmm, Well where do I find what you are talking about on Roblox? I’ve never even heard of it

Sure thing! The game is quite old and there might be some bugs, but that shouldn’t be to much of an issue! (I hope)

A DMCA report? I might need some more insight on what that is and how I can file one :sweat_smile: (I really am clueless when it comes to these kinds of things)

Alright, so you basically file an official report to roblox. You do have to be id verified and email verified, but if you are, then you are good to go!

I’ve never done one before so I don’t really know what it looks like. But you can file a report at this website. You will need to be logged in on your roblox browser by the way:

Good luck!

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That’s great! Although I don’t have an ID. I don’t have one since I have not needed one so far, so I’m going to take a wild guess and say that there’s not an alternative way to be able to file a DMCA report on Roblox without giving your ID to Roblox… I find that to be irritating but it is what it is

Is there any alternative way of filing a report to Roblox without a verified ID? Would that solution be to message roblox support?

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Yeaahh ummmm, you could try that but I’m not sure it would work. Also, yes, you do HAVE to be id verified to file a DMCA report. Its actually really annoying. Anyways, yeah your best option now is to contact roblox support. Good luck!

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