Facebook Removes Developer of Elven Blood from the Platform
The Facebook Platform Team appears to have banned an unruly developer from the Platform by disabling all of their applications.
Users started noticing that “Elven Blood” and other games by Patrick Shyu (who built apps under the moniker Royal East India Trading Company) had stopped working over the past few days. The Facebook page for Elven Blood is still live, but the game itself looks to be gone for good.
There are no confirmed reasons as to why the applications have been taken down. However, other application developers have previously complained about Facebook Platform terms of service breaches, like cross-promotion of applications through notifications. Prior to the application’s removal “Elven Blood” had around 240,000 monthly active users according to AppData (see this review from Inside Social Games last fall).
Although action has been taken against applications in the past, either through temporary or permanent removal, this may be the first time that such action has been taken against a set of applications, especially ones with such large numbers of users.
The Facebook Platform Team also appears to be keen to track down any more applications by the same developer:
“If you have evidence of any apps still available on Platform that are operated by Patrick Shyu, then please let us know.
To reiterate an earlier post, there are more enforcements on Platform than you are aware of, since Facebook does not publicize enforcement actions.”
April 9th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Patrick Shyu has a long, inglorious history on the Facebook Platform. Search for “shyu” on the developer forum and you’ll see a bunch of threads about his antics over a year ago.
He once built an ad network that scammed its customers, for example.
April 10th, 2009 at 11:59 am
well done facebook,i was banned from the application for alleged cheating, quite how one would cheat i don’t know, and to re-instate my account i had to use 15 tributes, this meant either spending money or time filling out rubbish surveys and promotions but all ultimately making money for the developer. strangely enough i not once received a reply when messaging the developers.
the other maybe more worrying aspect of this application was the way that it regularly set off my avast anti-virus. what was it doing to those who didn’t have similar protection?
April 11th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
they should ban Mafia Wars as well, their fans are making a mess all over the facebook
April 13th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
I am so Happy right now!!
April 17th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Apparently Shyru was behind some mass copyright theft!
http://draco-samhain.deviantart.com/journal/21651196/
April 28th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
F U Mafia Wars is the shiznit, u just suk at it
May 7th, 2009 at 5:43 am
what a waste. the blood bames were some of the best apps around on facebook. punish the dev yes, nobody likes patrick shyu lol, but keep the games up and running for the hundreds of thousands of users who enjoy the game!
May 14th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
I’m glad I found out what happened to them. I ended up here while trying to figure out where Mob Underworld, as well as Twilight of Dragons, went.
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:04 pm
u know games r the MAIN reason ppl r even on facebook or even myspace!! ban mafia wars cuz we r makin a mess all over facebook???
r u jokin? no im srry .. u just someone who doesnt know how to have fun! if u rnt lookin u dont c a MESS from mafia wars…
July 5th, 2009 at 2:51 am
That was the best apps in facebook. Don’t care actually why it’s gone, but i still regret about it.
July 21st, 2009 at 1:46 pm
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August 2nd, 2009 at 11:00 am
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August 2nd, 2009 at 4:45 pm
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August 2nd, 2009 at 5:23 pm
[...] Facebook dropped the hammer hard on World of Blood’s developer, Patrick Shyu. They banned all of his apps this past April [...]
August 2nd, 2009 at 6:14 pm
[...] Facebook dropped the hammer hard on World of Blood’s developer, Patrick Shyu. They banned all of his apps this past April [...]
August 2nd, 2009 at 8:51 pm
[...] Facebook dropped the hammer hard on World of Blood’s developer, Patrick Shyu. They banned all of his apps this past April [...]
August 2nd, 2009 at 9:29 pm
[...] Facebook dropped the hammer hard on World of Blood’s developer, Patrick Shyu. They banned all of his apps this past April [...]
August 2nd, 2009 at 10:02 pm
[...] Facebook dropped the hammer hard on World of Blood’s developer, Patrick Shyu. They banned all of his apps this past April [...]
August 2nd, 2009 at 10:45 pm
[...] Facebook dropped the hammer hard on World of Blood’s developer, Patrick Shyu. They banned all of his apps this past April [...]
August 2nd, 2009 at 11:00 pm
[...] Facebook dropped the hammer hard on World of Blood’s developer, Patrick Shyu. They banned all of his apps this past April [...]
August 2nd, 2009 at 11:01 pm
[...] Facebook dropped the hammer hard on World of Blood’s developer, Patrick Shyu. They banned all of his apps this past April [...]
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:11 am
[...] Facebook dropped the hammer hard on World of Blood’s developer, Patrick Shyu. They banned all of his apps this past April [...]
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:45 am
[...] Facebook dropped the hammer hard on World of Blood’s developer, Patrick Shyu. They banned all of his apps this past April [...]
August 4th, 2009 at 1:50 am
[...] Facebook dropped the hammer hard on World of Blood’s developer, Patrick Shyu. They banned all of his apps this past April [...]
August 19th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
[...] Shyu es el desarrollador (¿spammer?) de esta aplicación, lo interesante es que fue baneado de Facebook, así como todas sus aplicaciones; es por eso que se movió de Facebook a Twitter. El baneo [...]
August 19th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
[...] Shyu es el desarrollador (¿spammer?) de esta aplicación, lo interesante es que fue baneado de Facebook, así como todas sus aplicaciones; es por eso que se movió de Facebook a Twitter. El baneo [...]
August 19th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
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August 21st, 2009 at 4:10 pm
i myself am devastated by the loss of elven blood… what was Shuys crime? I don´t geddit…
September 28th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
These were the only games that didn’t only involve mindless clicking… there were mazes, and puzzles, and strategy involved, there seemed to be actual thought that went into the games, all the recent games seem to be only about clicking, mafia wars is the key example and all the rest are basically the same game.
October 10th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
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November 12th, 2009 at 8:56 am
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May 23rd, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Elven blood got me into FB! If you don’t like the app sending you things block it you have to option.
August 17th, 2010 at 3:26 am
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