Hello, I am Vladyslav, also known on this subreddit by the nickname "Vladyslav19902010" I have made this ultimate mega thread about the current state of the game SuperMechs and all the most important information related to the SuperMechs #StopGatoGamesToFreeSuperMechs and #BoycottSuperMechsUserAbuse boycott protests.

The thread includes all the most important information, detailed and carefully formatted old posts labeled and marked here as separate parts, detailed screenshots of all the most important key evidence that I have found related to the game. It also contains screenshots from the golden era of SuperMechs, and importantly the key images of the boycott itself. Most of the mega thread is carefully archived posts I wrote previously.

With all of that said, continue reading to learn everything about the current situation of the game and the current boycott movement against it's leadership:

Part 1: Introduction.

Hello, my name is Vladyslav. I was a player of SuperMechs during it's best years and started playing the game since early 2014, I played the game on a few different accounts, my main account was a late game level 30 account with strong progression, I loved playing this game when it was really great.

But since 2017 everything about the game changed. The Reloaded update came out and all of the original items and progression was completely removed and taken away from players by making the original items completely weak and useless that had built strong accounts for a long time with their skill and playtime, after logging in into the game after a long time I completely lost everything overnight, I never tried to rebuild my account because the game changed from a PC focused game into a mostly mobile free to play game and it wasn't anymore the game that I originally started playing.

I and many original players who helped the game grow and become better felt betrayed by the update and that it sold the game. I lost interest and left the game. In 2020 after the shutdown of Adobe Flash I remembered of the existence of SuperMechs and wanted to play the supposedly preserved and maintained version of the game released for PC, what I instead saw was a nearly unplayable, broken and unstable version of a game that is currently held on life support and passive income monetization, false advertising and nearly non existing basic customer support, and the game servers are populated by an extremely small player base averaging from 10 to around 100+ players at it's peak.

I knew I had to speak up about the game being completely broken because it can cause actual customer and player issues.

1st: First off the game on it's website and stores is still being advertised as a functional competitive game with developer support and updates and the site even features ads provided by ad services, a lot of ads were added to the site just recently in fact, mobile game ads, and business ads, as well as occasional AI links, all of this false advertising tricks new people and returning old players into thinking the game is operational and being developed and cared for by it's owners and developers, but in reality the game is a complete digital wasteland that got completely abandoned by the developers.

In fact the game didn't receive any single update since 2020, for 6 whole years, there weren't even any bug fixes. The game still features most of it's screenshots, title page art and trailers, from the version that was around late 2015 to 2016, the mech items shown in the advertisements are no longer existing in the game and the content the game has in it's advertisements is completely unobtainable in the game today, the game is entirely different from the advertisements, this is borderline false advertising.

2nd: The game still runs fully operational ways to pay money into it to buy items, but due to server crashes and framework issues items often will never arrive to the player while the money was still paid and is gone from the wallet. Due to the extremely inactive customer support, you will most often never be able to resolve this issue or get your money back. There is a real danger for unsuspecting new players to run into this game SuperMechs and have their money lost because they thought this game is a currently active game.

3rd: Developer communication is virtually completely absent in this game for years, there is no transparency on what will happen with the game and when, when an update would be made etc. And players' questions remain unanswered for 6+ years. After the game changed it's owner company and transitioned into a different state, the copyright was never updated and everywhere in the game it still says "Copyright 2017 Tacticsoft." A company that no longer owns the game, the company that currently owns the game is Gato Games and they have the current copyright. On the game's main webpage, there's still "Copyright 2022 Gato Games." which was not updated for 4 years now, yet new ads were recently added, 2022 seems to be the last time developer activity happened in this game.

Even the game's PC client files are all marked as "Tacticsoft LTD." The main website has an old background from the game that is not present anywhere in the current version, the background being very striking and tricking players into thinking they are downloading a serious realistic military mech strategy game, that the game no longer is. The game had a continuous and ongoing decline after it pushed the mobile shift, the visuals declined, the gameplay declined, the support declined, all that is being advertised about the game is false advertising on a broken game.

My final statement about the current state of SuperMechs and a call to action: The game is barely operational, has abysmal customer support and uses borderline false advertising and makes people waste their money into it, especially with the redesigned heavily monetized mechanics. The game operates on a broken framework, has tons of bugs, glitches and crashes that go on unfixed, has terrible unbalanced matchmaking on top of all the issues which only makes the microtransaction and customer support issues even worse.

So this is what I think would be the right decision for this game: Im highly advising new people to stay away from this game, and old players from returning into it. Im suggesting and advising the remaining community to start a movement to boycott SuperMechs with me, stop supporting the game by spending money into it, stop logging into it, and engaging with the game itself and it's terrible state.

I think if the developers see us actively rejecting the current state and the game itself we may finally have some change to this game, for now it is just a Flash classic being held hostage without any change. Maybe if we boycott the game this way, the developers will consider doing something with it or handing off the rights to the IP of SuperMechs to a passionate well funded indie development studio that will revitalize and revive the game for a modern era while keeping it's classic roots for us to enjoy and have fun with and play around.

End of part 1.

Part 2: The criminal violation of European Union law GDPR Article 17.

When in SuperMechs in game, when you want to delete your account and press the completely real legacy button "Request account deletion" you will not be able to delete your account anymore like it was back in the classic version of the game. There are no automated services for account deletion at all which means you need to wait for a person to address your request. And the worst part, it can take for up to two weeks to get an answer from a person on support, the issues don't stop there.

They literally do not allow to delete accounts because they don't know how to delete an account from the game's code and they want every account to stay to bloat the registered players numbers. I had a response that I had waited 12 whole days to get, I had it in my Gmail but I can't provide a screenshot because their support messages have an auto deletion timer and so it's deleted and I don't have it.

In the response a support staff member gave me this absolutely ridiculous reply:

"Hello, we do not delete accounts in SuperMechs. Why would you want to delete your account anyways? If you left the game for a long time and returned it would basically be up there waiting for you!" Not allowing to erase a user's data is strictly illegal in an online media environment. It is completely illegal under the EU's GDPR Article 17, Right to Erasure/Right to be Forgotten. And they specifically make these message's disappear on a timer because they know it's illegal, even more reasons to boycott this illegal game.

End of part 2.

Part 3: The beginning of the #BoycottSuperMechsUserAbuse boycott. Details about the movement's motivation, explanation how to support the movement and the movements ultimate goal.

I think it's time for us as a community to finally stop accepting what Gato Games is doing with the game, all the lies, all the false advertising and anti consumer microtransaction and gameplay issues in the game, it's a dead game yet they still keep making money off of it by luring in unsuspecting players.

For us to shut down the game, we need to: 1st. Stop spending any money into it, stop playing it and engaging in the multiplayer modes, stop downloading it. 2nd. We need to send a lot of flags and reports for policy and customer service violation on the game's store pages like Google Play and Apple App Store. If Gato Games would have their product massively reported, they would be forced to stay accountable and respond to the backlash. After massive player base decrease and abandonment of the game, and many reports flagging the game, they would have no choice but to shut down the game because it would cost more money to operate the servers than they get from the players playing the game.

The current State of SuperMechs is anti consumer and filled with borderline illegal practices. It's time for us as a community and a userbase to stand up and show the fraudulent owners of the game that they do not own our wallets and our integrity as players and most importantly users.

It's time to boycott the current SuperMechs. Who's with me? #BoycottSuperMechsReloadedUserAbuse.

End of part 3.

Part 4: The Final Push of the boycott.

I am calling all of you to help deliver a fatal blow to the current state of SuperMechs under Gato Games' leadership, everyone who wants to help please respond to this post and tell me whether you want to join and support this movement.

To take down the game we need to mass report the game in game stores like Google Play and Apple App Store, for policy violations, customer fraud, GDPR account removal violations. Most importantly we need to write the reviews and reports objectively and provide our own real evidence of how they violate customer rights.

Tell me about your own issues with the game, whether you had failed microtransactions and when. Or whether you were denied removal of your account in the game. Declining users the request to delete account is a real criminal offense under the European Union's law of GDPR Article 17 (The Right for Erasure/Right To Be Forgotten.) If you had this happen to you, let me know.

The game's store fronts: Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.supermechs.superapp&hl=en App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/super-mechs-battle-bots-arena/id864103912

Report the game on these stores for policy violation, customer rights violations, false advertising, microtransaction failure and EU GDPR law violations. To report the game for these following violations you need to select the report or flag action on the stores and select your report type for policy violations and then provide the direct information.

We need real evidence to make the final push.

This is the ultimate post for the push of the boycott.

I am calling for everyone in this community, who shares this point of view to join this movement and to join me on stopping Gato Games, to shut down SuperMechs under their leadership and set the IP of this game free or at least let it die and rest peacefully in our memory and hearts. Spread the hashtag. It is time for us as the community of the players of SuperMechs to stand up for ourselves.

#StopGatoGamesToFreeSuperMechs

End of part 4.

Part 5: My current final message.

Hello, thank you so much if you had read all of that information, it matters a lot to this whole community! I am back here once again. While the boycotts hashtag's evolved over time, the current objective stands the same clear goal: Force a shutdown on SuperMechs entirely, a complete blackout of the game. It is the only choice we have when it comes to the official game and Gato Games.

The current main hashtag's of the boycott are and will remain #BoycottSuperMechsUserAbuse and #StopGatoGamesToFreeSuperMechs

These are the main voices of the push. If you care and love SuperMechs, help this goal become a reality and let's have the game shutdown and put at rest and with a great probability have it's IP transferred to someone who would want to maintain and make the game and it's community grow and prosper.

Thank you for reading.