Post by itoldyousoso in Curse of Dares comments

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itch is not acting against https://delusriaa.itch.io/curseofdares and having that malware impostor crap still indexed even. i suggest you tell itch in no uncertain terms what you think of their service. and maybe leave a report on that game as well. maybe their automated system will take it down if enough reports come in, since they are amateurish enough to not work on weekend, when their users are hacked the most. and yes that crapp was reported several days ago, when there was no weekend.

shame on you, itch, shame on you!

(NOTE this here is the original. the link above is the impostor. just look here https://itch.io/search?q=Curse+of+Dares it STILL shows two of them)

mrpixiledd218 days ago

do you have proof that it's malware? if so i'd love to see it because i don't want to install it then

itoldyousoso18 days ago

why would you install a game from an obvious impostor account in the first place. in case you mistook the link i posted for the link you are on, look again.

but i shall edit the posting to clarify.

itoldyousoso18 days ago

in case this thread does not get removed, as a caution to all reading this:

you cannot trust scanners. least of all the ones itch is using. no positive scanning result proves nothing.

please use some sort of sandbox mode to execute games from untrusted sources. being hosted on itch is not a trusted source. not even when the game links to socials of the original developer. those other socials need to link back and also need to be genuine.

so to anwer your question about proof, it is by deduction.

there are two curse of dare projects. one uses a misspelled username. one uses a repacked file. one is paid. one is free.

so there are a few possibilities what this could be.

simple piracy. but why impersonate.

scamming for donation money. retrieving the money takes time and is risky.

distributing malware.

the original developer released the game twice with different accounts.

something else.

what would you pick?

Delusria18 days ago

Wow I had no idea of this game, I'll try to get in contact with itch.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention!

itoldyousoso18 days ago (1 edit)

itch was contacted almost a week ago. they sit on those reports or they ignore them or they do not believe them. maybe they listen to you. or others reporting the fake.

to tell the truth i did not even know the original was on itch too. but games hosted on dlsite do not appear here on itch as a free full game, just like that. when itch did not remove it from index after several work days, i wondered why the impostor did not use the correct spelling...

so i hope this is not some plot twist, and there are two impostors, since you do not link to dlsite, but the fake project does. ;-)

Delusria17 days ago(+1)

I see, well it's suddenly gone now. ~~So imposter #1 wins. >:P~~

Also good idea with the linking dlsite part, just threw that link on this account and I'll look into dlsite's policy on linking other storefronts to here tomorrow so I can get these accounts to point at each other.