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Aren't king the copy cats doing candy crush, ripping off a lone dev? "We do cool stuff", yeah, no.

by conceit 11y ago

raziel2p 11y ago
You can do cool tech stuff while ripping off other products.
diskcat 11y ago
I don't think that 'lone dev' invented 'get things i a line then they explode' game
- izym 11y ago
  That still doesn't justify suing him out of app stores.
  - diskcat 11y ago
    No it doesn't justify suing. Just because you make a shitty phone and puts an apple on it doesn't mean people will be buying your shit hands over fists. Quality speaks for itself. I think companies should be less territorial about names. Unless it is a direct copy, I'm sure the average people will be able to figure out that "candy smash" is a ripoff. After all only it won't have 20billion downloads.
- oneeyedpigeon 11y ago
  No, but that lone dev 'invented' a game branded around the word 'candy' with very similar gameplay elements, graphics, and wording. Candy crush saga is a ripoff, and 99% of objective observers will confirm that. In king's defence, that's perfectly legal; whether it's moral or not depends on the compass of the beholder. CCS also appeals strongly to children and makes heavy use of IAP; again, you can draw your own moral conclusions from that (and King are obviously not the only company behaving that way).
  - kartan 11y ago
    > "CCS also appeals strongly to children" This is nonsense. Nor King, nor other "big" companies do that. Look at the numbers "https://www.enolalabs.com/blog/archives/grossing-and-gaming-a-demographic-breakdown-of-mobile-games" https://www.enolalabs.com/blog/archives/grossing-and-gaming-.... Companies also need to do games for kids like Nintendo, that does it in the most awesome possible way. But King does not do that. If any marketing person is reading this. Please, take a look at King advertising, take a look at our branding and our merchandise products. King doesn't market casual games to children nor you should you do it.
  - johansch 11y ago
    https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2014/02/17/saga-candy-crush-saga/ https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2014/02/17/saga-candy-crush-... Is this accurate?
Drinkandcode 11y ago
How does your statement correlate with the subject actually?
panic 11y ago
For others who are curious about this: according to Wikipedia, the game in question is http://www.candyswipe.com http://www.candyswipe.com. While it has the same theme, the core mechanic of the game is very different (swipe a path through candies of the same color vs swap candies to form lines of three). Candy Crush isn't a rip off of this game.

Aren't king the copy cats doing candy crush, ripping off a lone dev? "We do cool stuff", yeah, no.

by conceit 11y ago

Aren't king the copy cats doing candy crush, ripping off a lone dev? "We do cool stuff", yeah, no.

raziel2p 11y ago

You can do cool tech stuff while ripping off other products.

diskcat 11y ago

I don't think that 'lone dev' invented 'get things i a line then they explode' game

izym 11y ago
That still doesn't justify suing him out of app stores.
- diskcat 11y ago
  No it doesn't justify suing. Just because you make a shitty phone and puts an apple on it doesn't mean people will be buying your shit hands over fists. Quality speaks for itself. I think companies should be less territorial about names. Unless it is a direct copy, I'm sure the average people will be able to figure out that "candy smash" is a ripoff. After all only it won't have 20billion downloads.
oneeyedpigeon 11y ago
No, but that lone dev 'invented' a game branded around the word 'candy' with very similar gameplay elements, graphics, and wording. Candy crush saga is a ripoff, and 99% of objective observers will confirm that. In king's defence, that's perfectly legal; whether it's moral or not depends on the compass of the beholder. CCS also appeals strongly to children and makes heavy use of IAP; again, you can draw your own moral conclusions from that (and King are obviously not the only company behaving that way).
- kartan 11y ago
  > "CCS also appeals strongly to children" This is nonsense. Nor King, nor other "big" companies do that. Look at the numbers "https://www.enolalabs.com/blog/archives/grossing-and-gaming-a-demographic-breakdown-of-mobile-games" https://www.enolalabs.com/blog/archives/grossing-and-gaming-.... Companies also need to do games for kids like Nintendo, that does it in the most awesome possible way. But King does not do that. If any marketing person is reading this. Please, take a look at King advertising, take a look at our branding and our merchandise products. King doesn't market casual games to children nor you should you do it.
- johansch 11y ago
  https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2014/02/17/saga-candy-crush-saga/ https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2014/02/17/saga-candy-crush-... Is this accurate?

Drinkandcode 11y ago

How does your statement correlate with the subject actually?

panic 11y ago

For others who are curious about this: according to Wikipedia, the game in question is http://www.candyswipe.com http://www.candyswipe.com. While it has the same theme, the core mechanic of the game is very different (swipe a path through candies of the same color vs swap candies to form lines of three). Candy Crush isn't a rip off of this game.