由台灣獨立遊戲開發者自製的益智網頁遊戲《磁場迷陣(Magnetized)》近日傳出遭到德國遊戲公司 Connect.Media UG 抄襲的新聞。據了解,這間德國遊戲公司在沒有獲得作者授權的情況下,將遊戲完整拷貝後以「付費制」的方式發行至 XBLIG、Google Play 等平台,同時也未註明原作者資訊。
"We are not a big studio, just two people trying to get by. Development took about two weeks. After not receiving a response, we thought that he might have thought that we were just kidding, so we put it on Android and XBLIG and told him to have a look at it.
"Again, we were sure that he'll accept the offer and everyone would benefit from having this game on multiple platforms. But again we didn't receive a response. We were about to remove the game from all stores and forget about this when we received a message from Rocky.
"Unlike what we thought he wasn't happy about this. He told us to remove the game from all stores. So we removed the game from all stores immediately. On Android it was gone after two hours. On XBLIG after eight hours. The game has been sold about 80 times."
CVG 的報導指出,Connect.Media UG 聲稱將把所有的收益還給作者,但若作者本人不接受,這些費用將會捐至台灣的慈善機構。
至於作者洪執宇則在其個人臉書上指出,一直以來均未接獲任何來自 Connect.Media UG 的信件與訊息,並指出這樣的行為與強盜無異。而他在獲知消息的同時也立即聯繫對方,要求 Connect.Media UG 將複製的遊戲下架。