Hi everyone, been searching and searching but not finding any answers or good information. Am hopeful that someone can help me. To start with, yes, I've searched groups and google for answers but there don't seem to be any. My app, Angry Birds Walkthrough Portal, was suspended from the Android Marketplace. This is all that i received from google about it:
This is a notification that the application, Angry Birds Walkthrough Portal, with package ID com.abwp has been removed from Android Market due to a violation of the Developer Content Policy. For specific details regarding this particular suspension, please see the Intellectual Property and Impersonation or Deceptive Behavior sections of our Content Policy. Please also be advised that your application’s title, description, and screenshots are also subject to the above Terms. Please review the Content Policies, Developer Distribution Agreement, and Business and Program Policies before you create or upload additional applications. Please also consult our guidelines on rating your application. If your developer account is still in good standing, please feel free to make any necessary revisions and upload a new version of the application that is compliant with the above terms. Please be advised that violations may result in a suspension of your Android Market Publisher account, and may also result in actions, including possible suspension, taken against any associated Android Market Publisher, AdSense, Google Checkout, or AdMob accounts. If you have an official license to use the protected assets evident in your Market listing, you can open the appeals process by providing this documentation in your reply to this notification. Thanks, The Android Market Team Any ideas what they are referring to? Here's a link to what the app looked like and the description from appbrain.com: http://www.appbrain.com/app/angry-birds-walkthrough-portal/com.abwp Yes, i did use keywords in the description, but so does google and numerous other extremely popular apps - xconstructions for instance, the lite version has been downloaded over 5 million times and they are an editor of choice ... yet they use keywords. My keywords did include angry birds, but that being used as a keyword is completely related to my app. The only other infraction I see is one that hundreds of other developers did, they used artwork from the app. Actually though, the image i used for my icon wasn't even from a screenshot of the game or their website (Rovio's) it was from somewhere else, I can't even remember now it was last year. Has ANYONE had any success at contacting google, disputing the alleged infractions and getting their app reposted? Yes, I can retool the artowrk, I already did that and I re-released it, but I lost all the comments I had, all the ratings, all the +1's. I had the best placement possible, int he top 4 most viewed and downloaded next to angry birds, angry birds seasons and angry birds rio - all before I added the keywords, which even google themselves do. Then they mention impersonating an app - clearly, based ont he description and the title of the app it is NOT angry birds ... WTH, you know? I make an app, pay my developer fees, pay them 30% of what I make in sales and I can't even dispute these charges? I can't even see who complained about these allegations against my app? For all I know it could have been another walkthrough dev complaining that my app was like theirs. What about all the apps with duplicate names? The ones that blatantly rip off artwork from Angry Birds and other games? Why are they still there if mine isn't? Ok, so I link to YouTube videos - plenty of other apps do that as well, why are they still there? Can't I go and complain about apps that do the same thing as mine yet were released afterwards? After beginning to go through this horrid experience, I've come to find out that oogle has incredibly lacking support for the people that make them money, their developers. This is ludicrous that i can't even talk to anyone about the infractions they mention or even dispute it. Why don't they warn you about it and give you 24 hours to fix it before removing your app? When I released the walkthrough portal I was one of very few devs doing it, now the market is proliferated with walkthrough apps for Angry Birds ... and I lost my number one placement to all of them and I can't even dispute it ... please, leave your rants or comments or suggestions, i'm open to anything. To anyone who is going to post something like "you violated the TOS, you knwo what you did" - get lost, I wouldn't be posting this if I knew what I did wrong, i'm not doing anything anyone else isn't doing. Also, does anyone know if you can refund the purchase price of an app yet let the purchaser keep it? I'd like to let the people who purchased the old suspended app but the new version yet refund them their money but let them keep the app. Let me know how to do this if it is possible. 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