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?
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Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 14:21,
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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.
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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/
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Mon 29 Oct 2012, 16:28,
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