- Report: #260871
Complaint Review: CodeMallet Entertainment - Syracuse Utah
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CodeMallet Entertainment
1998 W 2700 S Syracuse, 84075 Utah, U.S.A.
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CodeMallet Entertainment ripoff, total ripoff Syracuse Utah
This report is being filed, as well as turned into every major federal law enforcement agency in the United States.
Where to start?
Tax Evasion:
Mr Chambers has google checkout which automatically deducts tax from your card for your items purchased, what he didnt tell you is that the tax money goes straight into his account, and last quarter he did not claim nearly what he had as incoming profit. This I know because I alone spent more than he claimed with his store and business.
The Total Ripoff:
Mr Chambers runs several games online, including a ripoff of an old game called battlecity, which he has 0 rights over, which when battlecity died, i have a copy of the copyright, which was released by "Jankos", the ex-owner/sole proprietor of the game. This game title and software rights was made a public matter, and now mr chambers claims to have copyrighted it, which is impossible, because it was made a public copyright, back in late 1998.
Mr Chambers also has several other games that he's re-making and calling something else due to copyright infringment, Sierra Software USA would be happy to know that he's stealing code, and remaking a game called ARC and calling it SPARC/SPARK so that he can take the community from that game and once again line his pockets with money.
THE HISTORY:
I have personally spent over 700.00$ with Mr Chambers game BattleCity, and now have been banned due to "SPEED HACKING" which is impossible due to the autoban system. Not one administrator has seen me do anything of the sort, but a new administrator bartsie, who has a long history of dislike with myself and a few others, has grasped the concept that he is an administrator and tryed to push judgement on me, and say that I infact was speedhacking.
THE SOLUTION:
Mr Chambers is being notified that he has 24 hours to fix the problem, or not only will i challenge each purchase that i've made within the last 6 months, being is that the purchases are life long items, and codemallet ent. has no proof that i've done anything wrong, therefor rendering my items taken, and my money still resides in his bank account.
If this does not come to a quick resolution, I will contact my Attorney, and from there we will be contacting the IRS, BBB(if he even registered with them, which i doubt) and any other tax, financial and law office that I can wiggle this case into, and this matter will be taken to court if neccesary.
Misery
west palm beach, Florida
U.S.A.
Where to start?
Tax Evasion:
Mr Chambers has google checkout which automatically deducts tax from your card for your items purchased, what he didnt tell you is that the tax money goes straight into his account, and last quarter he did not claim nearly what he had as incoming profit. This I know because I alone spent more than he claimed with his store and business.
The Total Ripoff:
Mr Chambers runs several games online, including a ripoff of an old game called battlecity, which he has 0 rights over, which when battlecity died, i have a copy of the copyright, which was released by "Jankos", the ex-owner/sole proprietor of the game. This game title and software rights was made a public matter, and now mr chambers claims to have copyrighted it, which is impossible, because it was made a public copyright, back in late 1998.
Mr Chambers also has several other games that he's re-making and calling something else due to copyright infringment, Sierra Software USA would be happy to know that he's stealing code, and remaking a game called ARC and calling it SPARC/SPARK so that he can take the community from that game and once again line his pockets with money.
THE HISTORY:
I have personally spent over 700.00$ with Mr Chambers game BattleCity, and now have been banned due to "SPEED HACKING" which is impossible due to the autoban system. Not one administrator has seen me do anything of the sort, but a new administrator bartsie, who has a long history of dislike with myself and a few others, has grasped the concept that he is an administrator and tryed to push judgement on me, and say that I infact was speedhacking.
THE SOLUTION:
Mr Chambers is being notified that he has 24 hours to fix the problem, or not only will i challenge each purchase that i've made within the last 6 months, being is that the purchases are life long items, and codemallet ent. has no proof that i've done anything wrong, therefor rendering my items taken, and my money still resides in his bank account.
If this does not come to a quick resolution, I will contact my Attorney, and from there we will be contacting the IRS, BBB(if he even registered with them, which i doubt) and any other tax, financial and law office that I can wiggle this case into, and this matter will be taken to court if neccesary.
Misery
west palm beach, Florida
U.S.A.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Codemallet
Syracuse,Utah,
U.S.A.
Violation of the Terms of Service
#2REBUTTAL Owner of company
Tue, April 14, 2009
My name is James Chambers. I own CodeMallet Entertainment. I am a college student who is an indie developer that makes these games in my own free time. CodeMallet Entertainment provides completely free online games. These games do not cost anything to purchase, download, or play. The only revenue we receive is from players who buy "vanity" features, such as a customized tank or name color. We make *very* little money, barely enough to even cover our expenses. The person who filed this report was banned for violating the terms of service. He ran a speedhacking program, as well as many, many other cheats. It was a unanimous decision by the administration team to ban him for this violation of the terms of service. It doesn't matter how much you spent (which was NOT $700), if you violate the terms of service we will terminate your access to our games. Buying vanity features does NOT give you a right to violate the terms of service for the game. Further, the game in question in this report (BattleCity) is no longer owned by CodeMallet. It is owned by Looble Entertainment and has been for years now. This can be verified by going to the looble.com BattleCity section. As for Spark, it is a completely original game. There is nothing stolen from it. Artists worked VERY hard to create a completely original tile and sound set for the game. There is no copyright violation taking place of any kind.
Patabugen
MyCiry,Europe,
U.S.A.
Big Whoop
#3Consumer Comment
Thu, October 11, 2007
I'm wondering what 'Mr Chambers' did to you to make you mad. My guess is your sore at being caught cheating. No 'Auto Ban' is perfect and it's never "impossible" to cheat. He's revived some games which have died, given those who want to play them another chance to do so. He charges you tax on things you buy, but he pays tax on them before he re-sells them to you (Assuming the US tax system is anything like the UK one, whereby only registered companies). So the Gov still gets thier tax (minus his markup admittidly - which on electrical goods is low enough when your a retailer) So the guy dosen't report every cent he makes to the tax office, who dosen't? Spark, which has never been spelt with a C, has been welcomed by much of the ARC community. Compared to the many different clones of ARC over the years Spark has been met with little resistance.
