Quote: "Placing it under game developement tool and the way it is advertised and described is very mis-leading."
How so? What does the product do?
A. It makes games.
What sort of software is it?
A. Its a tool.
Its not a game making game, its a game making tool.
It would only be false advertising if TGC said you could distribute the games to other people when you make them. Game making tool does not in any way legally imply that you can distribute the end product.
Its obviously just a fun way to get kids or anyone who is interested into game making, its not a serious way to create or distribute games.
Quote: "The bottom line is it is a TGC product and you have to pay for it, so you should as a consumer know what your buying......"
Thats up to the consumer though, they've listed all the features on the page that the tool supports, nowhere does it say that you can distribute an end product.
You've implied that yourself.
While I don't disagree that having a distribution feature would be awesome suace, I don't think the right way of giving feedback is throwing TGC the legal book or going on a tirade and posting links to competitors. (Which leads me neatly to my next point)
VanB was also right in his actions (but you may think I'm saying that because I'm a mod). Why do you think we have such a good community here? The mods never ban people out of spite or for fun. If you've found yourself on the wrong end of a ban, then you probably had it coming.
Despite the fact that we volunteer, we still try to maintain a high level of consistency and objectivity in what we do. Just because VanB and I are fellow Moderators, you can bet your life that I'll be one of the first to tell him if he's made an error, and I expect he, and all the other mods would do the same for me.
To summarise:
So chillax, we know what we are doing! We aren't here to stop you from giving constructive feedback, there is just a right way of doing it and then there is the wrong way of doing it.
I'm sure TGC love to hear all your feedback and thoughts on their products, but please just try to be pleasant about it. Going off on an angry rant just comes across immature, and its that sort of behaviour the mods don't tolerate.
Cheers!