Re:Candy Crush Saga creators have trademarked the word “candy”
by vacri on Monday January 20, 2014 @04:22PM
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After playing a number of King games recently, they are all 'reimaginings' of old classics. Candy Crush is a little more original in terms of additional difficulties, but some of them are basically lifted wholesale. The originality from King is the polish and the art, not the gameplay.
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Re:Candy Crush Saga creators have trademarked the word “candy”
by jrs99 on Monday January 20, 2014 @07:15PM
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that's why I don't think what they do really matters. This is the next Zynga. You could tell that Zynga wasn't legitimate from a thousand miles away.
People that clone games lose. Always. They don't know what to do when there's nothing more to clone.
Re:Candy Crush Saga creators have trademarked the word “candy”
by accatyyc on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @03:51AM
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That's a weird argument. Bejeweled and Peggle (two VERY polished games, both made by PopCap games) were blatantly ripped off. (Candy Crush and Papa Pear by King are almost identical ripoffs, save for sprites).
How are the games by PopCap not polished? It irritates me even more that King copies TWO games from the same company... They truly are the new Zynga.
Re:Candy Crush Saga creators have trademarked the word “candy”
by vacri on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @06:51AM
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Bejeweled is a polished version of an earlier game. Peggle's graphics aren't exactly polished for a 2007 game. But I guess I really meant that King's strength is their polish. It's certainly not their game design originality.