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I find it hard to believe that Zynga knew about -none- of those games. I could believe 1 or 2, but to have pre-existing examples of every game they are trying
by wccrawford 15y ago
I find it hard to believe that Zynga knew about -none- of those games. I could believe 1 or 2, but to have pre-existing examples of every game they are trying to sue over... I just can't believe that.
It sounds to me like Zynga forgot its roots.
- smokinn 15y agoWhat roots are you referring to? As pointed out by another in this article's discussion, Zynga has a well documented history of not caring about original production but rather looking around for successfull social games, copying them and throwing way more marketing dollars and gamification techniques at them so as to make the original irrelevant.
- mikeryan 15y agoI believe those are the roots he's referring to.
- starwed 15y agoI've heard that internally, they call this practice "fast-following". I guess they had to invent some double-speak so the game devs didn't feel so bad in meetings! They actively look for small games that are just starting to become successful, since those are easier to displace in the market.
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- tzs 15y agoIt's worse than that. They only gave examples for the games Zynga is suing over. Similar examples could be found for other Zynga games.
- wccrawford 15y agoI'm actually perfectly find with Zynga copying other games. Even if every single game was a copy (it might be, I don't know) I'd still be fine. Because that's how software is done. You improve on other things you see. And others can do the same. My problem is that they did the copying, but then tried to stop others from doing exactly the same thing.