The success there had more to do with it being a) free, at a time when there were far fewer of those options combined with that it b) ran on windows. The enterprise's pathological windows use for developer machines and the state of apples devices at the time and the near non-existence of linux enterprise laptops which continues today meant that they had the perfect product for that moment in history. I cannot overstate this: the people making these decisions think an acid transaction is a felony and not a term of art used by some of their employees.
I play Cyberknights RPG by the Trese brothers as I fall asleep each night. Just left a comment of support on the game's play store page (while it's still there). We need to escalate this is a way that Google will see it. HN is nice, I will link to this from G+ and see if I can find it to upvote on Reddit as well.