Asher Vollmer, the author of Threes!, the best iPhone game of last year according to Apple, yesterday, May 5, said on his Twitter page that his game was removed from Google Play because of the mention in the tags of project 2048.
The developer learned about the withdrawal of the application from the automatic mailing list after the fact.
Given the presence of a huge number of 2048 clones in the most popular Android store, copying gameplay, graphics and UI, the decision to delete the project because of the tag seems, at least, unfair.
An additional piquancy of the story is given by the fact that 2048, as its author Gabriel Cirulli admits, “is based on the concept of “Threes!.
By now, Threes!, according to Vollmer, has been returned back to the store (the game was absent for about 4 hours).
The story may seem funny, but it must be understood that if Vollmer had not been such a popular developer, whose Twitter feed is read by more than 10 thousand people (including many media representatives), the return of the game to Google Play could have been delayed.
The author of Threes himself! He explained to the Engadget resource the removal of the game by the imperfection of the Google Play appruva system: “Google has bots that crawl around the store and search, for example, for applications overloaded with keywords, and then they are automatically deleted.”
“I would like Google to rely on people, not robots, in making decisions, or at least warn that it is going to delete the application before actually doing it,” he stressed Vollmer.
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