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> Secondly, why pay for Starcraft when I can just play Starcraft-JS for free? Well, presumably (some of) that money goes somewhere else than Kotick's pockets.
by Nullabillity 10y ago
> Secondly, why pay for Starcraft when I can just play Starcraft-JS for free?
Well, presumably (some of) that money goes somewhere else than Kotick's pockets. If they can't compete properly then isn't that the market working as intended?
- zamalek 10y agoIt doesn't matter how the market should behave (I agree with you about free competition), the reality is that Blizzard owns the trademark and there are legal processes surrounding that. They can compete, just not with the same trademarked name or, as previously, copyrighted materials. I'm not referring to how things should work, rather how they actually work.
- alienasa 10y agoThat's not how that works. You're welcome to compete by making a different RTS game, but you can't just copy theirs and offer it up for free and then say they should "outcompete" you.