The Pokemon Company has announced that it will take action against companies and individuals who use the Pokemon name without permission from the company.
I reported yesterday that a scammer has managed to get Pokémon Pocket Edition on the App Store. The game has already hit the iTunes top ten but the consumers who are purchasing the game are unaware that the game doesn’t actually feature any content, instead it’s just a simple Pokemon gallery. Here’s what the Pokemon Company has to say on the matter:
“We continue to combat the unauthorised release of games, applications and merchandise that trick our fans into purchasing something that does not meet our quality standards.”
“Fans who encounter questionable products should report to us immediately so we can keep other fans from falling victim to these scams.”
Get em
the people who actually bought that are pretty stupid.
Pretty much this. GameFREAK is owned by Nintendo. They can’t put anything on mobile devices.
To be fair, in Japan, I’m pretty sure there’s already a legit Pokemon iPod game…
There have been fake ports before, where a third party simply sells an emulated version of some game. If you jailbreak your iOS device you can play NES, SNES, GB, and GBA games through emulators… GameFREAK didn’t develop that now did it? All you have to do to get this sort of game on the App Store is to hope Apple doesn’t notice it’s a port…
Agreed. So are the people who approved it.
Gotta Catch ‘Em All!!
It’s not even a Pokemon gallery… it’s literally one picture, and then the app crashes. A scam if I’ve ever seen one…
Well the guy who thought of the scam sure was smart at it to get the money.
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Why Apple allows these Apps? They put such a huge problem releasing other apps, why they just don’t delete them from the app store.
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We’ll handled this like men, we sue him!
Hell yes! Take these assholes down.
Just so you know i don’t support what these guys are doing, but I think the Pokemon is over-protective of their property. Plus this song is BEAST
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I like the picture given with this news post, it’s as though we’re saying “Fucking stop scamming us and making fake Nintendo games or we’ll set Reshiram, Zekrom and Kyurem on you!!!” :D
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Yes get them!
Nintendo, I choose you! Apple, go fuck yourself in that over there.
gotta catch ‘em all
why people do this if there going to get sued and lose money?