I've thought about buying this, because it's actually a pretty rare FPS (one of the last and most advanced games based off of the Doom II engine I think?), but a couple of things didn't add up for me...
a) There's no, absolutely no mention of who Javier Chavez is. There's no official webpage with support, or discussion about the game at all. All I've seen are some empty Tumblr pages. I'm pretty sure it's a pseudonym.
b) There's no, absolutely no mention of whether he has the rights to the IP, and if he does, how he got them.
c) He's also selling OpenArena on the MAS. Yes, that's right, a fully free and open source FPS licensed under the GPL. I don't know what the precise commercial terms of the GPL are, but I'm pretty sure they forbid you just taking the files and packaging them up for sale somewhere else.
Long story short, this is a straight up copyright violation, plain and simple. He's a scammer and a thief, doesn't deserve your money, and should be thoroughly ashamed of himself.
mk47at: 2. I don't understand how the Apple Store takes so much time on the approval process of games/updates and at the same time allows so many obvious copyright violations.
Couldn't agree with you more. There are some hints that things are getting better on iOS, but the MAS is still fundamentally broken in this regard, and unless Apple does something soon, customers will sooner rather than later see it as the shovelware dumping ground that it really is. It's why, despite it being the most permissive and unobtrusive DRM system on the Mac, it's still something I avoid like the plague.
Miaghstir: Don't you know? Anything computer-related older than 5 years never actually existed, it's all just myth and legends, if even that.
Apparently there are a lot of people out there who think that Halo was the first FPS...
