EA Sues Zynga for Copying The Sims Social
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The vultures have come to pick the fresh corpse clean.
Captcha: sun tzu says
"put those bitches on ice!"
Captcha: sun tzu says
"put those bitches on ice!"
"EA"
EA: "What?!"
"Incinarate the corpse"!
Burn, burn it all!!!
Titans clash and I root for the stronger one. Either way though it's a loss for many. Not really me though.
EA: "What?!"
"Incinarate the corpse"!
Burn, burn it all!!!
Titans clash and I root for the stronger one. Either way though it's a loss for many. Not really me though.
Considering what's being kicked here, I fully support it. Some things deserve to die, this company is definitely one of them. That said, I've missed the memo on Zynga doing badly, last I heard (and it wasn't that long ago iirc), they were swimming in money. When did it change?Fappy said:
Brilliant. Way to kick them while they're down EA.
EA uses lawsuit! It's super effective!
Finish him! L-A-W-S-U-I-T ... FATALITY!
EA uses lawsuit! It's super effective!
Finish him! L-A-W-S-U-I-T ... FATALITY!
Don't ask him. He'll probably say something about how Mass Effect 3 is a Gears of War rip-off, because they are third person shooters that rely on cover.Vrach said:
Although there is a point between the reboot of Medal of Honor and Modern Warfare.
Wow...rooting for EA. Shocking. Zynga seriously messed with the wrong people. Anyone else getting the vibe of the Mafia hit man mocking the Leader of the organization who then decides to put a hit out on him for having the balls to try and rip him off?
Also BF:BC. But considering the BF series pre-dates the CoD one and that all those games were long awaiting reboots (except MoH, afaik, they were popping out the whole time, they were just bollox enough for people not to notice), it's not much to go on. Also, launching a game to compete with another game is not the same as copying a game. There's plenty different between CoD and BF (again, not counting MoH as the series never really died)thebobmaster said:
Why is Zynga going down? What happened?
1-2 years ago thay were swimming in cash :|. Someone give me a news scoop!
1-2 years ago thay were swimming in cash :|. Someone give me a news scoop!
well, we know EA is good at killing studios.nikki191 said:
honestly, i hope EA crushes them so utterly there's no hope of recovery, not just cause Zynga are thieves, but cause i just don't like social games
Yeah, if EA actually wins this, it'll be really troubling for the industry as a whole. The end result of cloning lawsuits like this wouldn't be trying to take out clones, it would be simply another means to stifle competition. If you're EA and you want to stop, say, an independent developer from releasing a game, you simply find a similar title in your ridiculously massive back catalog and sue them for "cloning" that.
Once you've opened up the lawsuit, they find they're out of funds before they leave the discovery phase, and then it's your game, what you want them to settle for. You can force them to shut down, that's easy, but you could also force them to hand over the game to you first, so now that independent game is your game, to do whatever you want with, and the developers are now forced to sign non-compete contracts, or you drag their ass into court for the next four years until you've bleed as much as you can from this stone.
In a more realistic scenario, consider Torchlight II and Diablo 3, while they're very different games, they could be visually similar enough for Activision to go after the Torchlight devs (or would have been able to before Perfect World snapped them up), based on the visual similarity of the games. And they might have actually been able to go after the original Torchlight based on it's mechanical similarity to the original Diablo.
As much as everyone hates Zynga, this is a really really bad situation all around.
Once you've opened up the lawsuit, they find they're out of funds before they leave the discovery phase, and then it's your game, what you want them to settle for. You can force them to shut down, that's easy, but you could also force them to hand over the game to you first, so now that independent game is your game, to do whatever you want with, and the developers are now forced to sign non-compete contracts, or you drag their ass into court for the next four years until you've bleed as much as you can from this stone.
In a more realistic scenario, consider Torchlight II and Diablo 3, while they're very different games, they could be visually similar enough for Activision to go after the Torchlight devs (or would have been able to before Perfect World snapped them up), based on the visual similarity of the games. And they might have actually been able to go after the original Torchlight based on it's mechanical similarity to the original Diablo.
As much as everyone hates Zynga, this is a really really bad situation all around.
"Imaginativate" is now my new favorite word for "copy 95% of."Krion_Vark said:
Vrach said:
Zynga, uh... hasn't been doing so awesome [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/118723-Zynga-Share-Price-Crashes], financially speaking.Brotherofwill said:
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While that's a valid concern, keep in mind that if Activision actually tried to pull something like that, it has about five major competitors that would be more than happy to sue it into oblivion for its own games. Sharing a few mechanics or a vaguely similar art style is nowhere near the level of copying that Zynga is accused of. In fact, EA probably has a hard legal battle ahead of it in spite of the unending list of similarities between the games in question - even if it wins, it will likely be a narrow enough victory that it doesn't establish legal precedent for punishing games that clearly do iterate on their predecessors. That depends on the judge who writes the ruling, though.Starke said:
Starke said:
All plots to all the stories, movies, games, etc etc, fall into no more than 7 categories. Dig deep enough and its all the same, but in this case its not a case of just two similar ideas for Simulated worlds, this is a near perfect copy paste, which is bad. Its like creating the Mona Lisa only with eyebrows.