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This is a normal post And Anonymous
aren't much cop either.
 (I helped save b3ta! Fronds are waving gently on, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:30, Reply)
This is a normal post I see what you did there!

(I helped save b3ta! pixel_fucker is going to need a bigger brush, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:34, Reply)
This is a normal post ha ha
Farmville can just get to fuck...
 (robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:35, Reply)
This is a normal post Zynga are a right bunch of cunts
Corporately, I mean. I'm sure individual workers are lovely people stuck in shit jobs. The CEO was caught ordering people to shut up, don't be inventive, don't make new games, just clone other ones.
 (I helped save b3ta! Fronds are waving gently on, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:38, Reply)
This is a normal post was it them that nicked crush the castle?
I loved that game.
 (robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:39, Reply)
This is a normal post Nah, that's Angry Birds
Who are really just the latest and particularly succesful throw-and-knock-shit-down game purveyors, CtC was just another one.

Zynga do direct clones - here's a quicky:
www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/08/08/a-photo-retrospective-of-the-games-developers-claim-zynga-has-cloned/
 (I helped save b3ta! Fronds are waving gently on, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:43, Reply)
This is a normal post Those were all the games I was thinking of
Assumed they did angry birds too, which is practically a whole new game compared to those Zynga copies.
 (robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:48, Reply)
This is a normal post I actually know people working in low-level design roles in both those studios.
It's ok for "experience", but I think they want to be somewhere better.
 (I helped save b3ta! Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:52, Reply)
This is a normal post don't make new games, just clone other ones.
Isn't that what EVERY game developer does?

Games industry is getting like hollywood now.
As long as everyone keeps going out and buying Call of Duty 12 and Fifa 2020, why should they bother spenidng $100million developing a new game that will probably bomb?
 (I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 14:21, Reply)
This is a normal post because COD and FIFA
are updates to existing games, owned by the people that designed them and are popular. Zynga merely stole the games outright, copied them, then used their massive marketing budget, obtained from stealing previous games, to be more popular than the original.
 (robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 14:39, Reply)
This is a normal post Yep
There's taking the basic idea, or a certain gameplay aspect, but that's not enough "theft" for Zynga.

EA filed a lawsuit against them for stealing concepts and ideas from The Sim's Social for The Ville, pointing out that their character skin tones had the exact same RGB coordinates, which could only really have happened via direct copy.

More stuff here: www.joystiq.com/2012/08/03/highlights-from-eas-lawsuit-against-zynga/
 (I helped save b3ta! Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Mon 29 Oct 2012, 16:28, Reply)