Concern for Orteil (Cookie Clicker)

My Girlfriend got a Windows Surface the other day. It’s like an Ipad, but Micrsoft brand and running Windows 8. She was showing me some of that Apps that she put on it, and she was showing me how she had gotten Cookie Clicker.

I’m Quite fond of Orteil’s Cookie Clicker. I’ve gotten to the point where you have an absurd amount of Cookies per second (378,118,134,915.8 to be precise, and that’s with the Elder Covenant Invoked), and she has been too after I introduced her to it. However, at a glance, I could tell straight away, This wasn’t Orteil’s Game…

What this was, in fact, was somebody who had copied the concept of Orteil’s work (with a few minor tweaks), copied the name, and then chucked it on the app store. Doing a quick google search, I found that there is also another one for windows phone. Links Below:

http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/cookie-clicker/9836dd85-7ca3-4d04-a3fe-780340ec2998/m/ROW

 http://www.windowsphone.com/en-au/store/app/cookie-clicker/6a3e1df7-da1c-4103-a3d2-b8d9d098d677

I’ve sent a message to Orteil via his blog, I do hope he can at least get them removed from the windows store, as frankly what they are doing is dishonest and unfair. I personally would not have a problem with it if the name wasn’t the same, and the games at least looked different, but these are just blatant copies…

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