Ready to beat the horse’s corpse again? I know this is ground we have tread many times, both in articles here on the site proper and via the collective sounds of our voices on the podcast. However, something has changed. A cataclysmic shift in the Earth’s crust? Have the poles shifted their polarity? Massive solar flares? The zombie apocalypse? A global bacon shortage? Nope. I have one word for you: Sims...
"The day Maxis released the first Sims game, my sister and I both purchased a copy. We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. I was about 10-years old and well-versed in PC gaming at the time." | Explosion.com
Leanne C. Taylor-Giles writes: It seems to be a well-known fact that you can’t copyright an idea, but if there are enough similarities in the execution, a case can be made. That’s exactly what EA is doing with its lawsuit against Zynga, and exactly what it’s entitled to do. It’s just a shame that it took so long, and that the company making the claim is EA.
In some cases I think there is just plain robbery of some gaming ideas.
On the other hand that is what innovation is. You take an idea and you improve upon the idea and you get a new product.
It's very hard to judge between the two though.
Zynga made a name for itself by developing games for Facebook, but a lawsuit from Electronic Arts accuses the FarmVille maker of acting less than friendly.
Zynga's new game The Ville is a "blatant mimicry" of EA's The Sims Social game, EA's suit alleges.
EA filed the copyright infringement suit Friday on behalf of its Maxis Label, which created The Sims Social.
EA have a point but so does Zynga. It isn't like this game is out of the blue as they have been doing similar games for a while now.
I love this quote (from another article) "It’s also ironic that EA brings this suit shortly after launching SimCity Social, which bears an uncanny resemblance to Zynga’s CityVille game. Nonetheless, we plan to defend our rights to the fullest extent possible and intend to win with players"
Interesting to see how this one turns out
@WeskerChildReborned
Yeah, it's just awful that EA is trying to turn their entire line up of games into Call of Duty!
You were talking about EA ripping off other games right? /s
I think EA done Medal of Honour 1st before Call of Duty and it can be argued that Call of Duty is a copy of Medal of Honour.
Okay picking a side in this is gonna be very difficult for me they both have shitty business ethics.
I can think of games that were much more "inspired" by games than this one is, if successful, we might see similar lawsuits in the future.
