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The odd thing is they are not buying any IP. The game itself is a clone of other games decades earlier, and the name is also non original. Still not sure what
by randyrand 5y ago
The odd thing is they are not buying any IP.
The game itself is a clone of other games decades earlier, and the name is also non original.
Still not sure what they bought.
- tptacek 5y agoThere's a whole bunch of perfect Wordle clones that get ~none of the traffic Wordle gets, and none of the viral word-of-mouth spread. The NYT uses word games as a subscription driver. So that's what they're buying here. They could implement Wordle themselves, of course, but they wouldn't get the traffic or the interest from players.
- frosted-flakes 5y agoThe userbase, and a redirect from the current location[1] to the New York Times' branded website. [1]: https://powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle https://powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle