There's a group on Steam who have made it their mission to report and disgrace indie developers who use assets not of their own. I first experienced them some years ago, when their group leader and a YouTube reviewer attacked a new developer for his block-building game. Long-short, they destroyed the Review and Discussion sections with unproven claims of content theft and 'Asset Flipping'.
He stopped working on games altogether.
Recently, I found a post on their group about a couple of similar-looking games, calling the devs 'sock accounts' and of course, Asset-Flipper. (Although, looking at their other games, I start to wonder). I performed a reverse-image search on one of the screenshots, which lead to discovering the Superpowers pack. Sparklin Labs says the packs are free, and I haven't looked at what's all included, so here are my questions.
- How much content should be used to prevent being called a 'dirty dev'? The game's they found have low reviews, playtime, and sell for $13-34, with game bundles at $45, so I don't see it ending well for those developers if the group goes after them.
- If you are honest, how do you deal with users who accuse you of being a fraud, and slandering your name in reviews and videos?