Zynga releases Pokemon-style game

 Apastron The hate object of your hate object might not be something you like (as in the saying "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"), but in this case I also say "Go EA!".

 Hurvl  Apastron The problem is, if EA wins, where does that leave the game industry?

Think about it. If no one is allowed to use someones idea and improve off of it, then this industry will fall apart. Granted, Zynga never did improve crap, but EA is worse than Zynga really. Zynga may copy tons of games, but its the casual market, its not the hardcore market. There are tons of copied games in that market, and the only reason Zynga gets targeted is because they make the most money on it.

EA however copies games as well, but are thoroughly hated and blamed for this disgusting overfilled market of shooters. Sure, some good games come from EA, but in the end, EA didn't do anything but fund the games, and even then I feel bad for the devs because EA tacks on loads of BS that the consumer has to deal with. Now if EA wins this case, you know what that does to this industry?

Well, it will rid a lot of shooters, but in the same respect, which shooters will vanish. Either CoD will die, or BF will die. Medal of Honor will have to hope it can got back to WW2, and dont even get me started on MMOs. If EA wins this case, much akin to the Apple Vs Samsung case, then EA wins..period, we lose.

If zynga wins, it gets away with copying much like every other company in the indie market does, and the hardcore market. I can live with clones, but I can't live without variety. This industry requires you to wade through the crap to find a good game. What happens when that good game uses some ideas from another good game, and is therefore removed entirely because it copied even a little bit.

Root for Zynga, not for EA. Because in reality, this is a lose lose situation for the consumer, but not for the companies. Its better to root for the lesser of two evils than to root for the one evil because it stands up for whats wrong in this industry. 

 Destrond   What we root for won't change anything, the judges dealing out a sentence to this suit won't be influenced by our rooting.This lawsuit is out of our control.  

EA "got away" with Origin (since it's not a commercial failure) and I think they'll get away with this as well. Although EA might cut down on the lawsuits if they suffer enough public backlash, I think that it would take a lot for that to happen. They're already a hated company and still they are one of the biggest game companies in the industry. What we personally root for won't change their business strategies as long they don't suffer commercial failures or epic amounts of hate. I don't generally like EA, I just said that on this occasion I say "Go EA!", because they have the resources to take Zynga into court.  

As for personal opinions, I think it's good that Zynga gets sued for such a blatant copying. Being inspired by a game is one thing, being almost a direct copy is another. It can sometimes be hard to distinguish one from the other, but I think this is a clear case of rip-off.  

I don't agree that copying games for one market is worse/better than copying games for another market. Hardcore gamers might not care about the abundance of clones in the casual market, but that doesn't make the copying any more okay. Variety is the opposite of making blatant copies and although I agree that some companies have far too much of a trigger-happy suing finger, suing for something minor which could effect variety on the same theme, I think this suit is justified, because of the striking resemblances between these games and others Zynga has copied.

 jmefford actually an upside down pentagram is a satanic symbol this one is right side up

 jmefford upside down pentagram  supposed to resemble the goat head and is satanic.The one shown in the name is supposed to ward of bad spirits and is used in black and white magic.

 toddx77 

I didn't know Nathan died! Then again I didn't watch it anymore after the painfully reduced second season, so I wouldn't have know anyway.

pcp value pack..like wtf

 sinista4 Nah, the star is pointing up, which means it represents all matter in the universe. If it was a crucifix THEN it'd be using dark evil forces.

 kavadias1981 Since when have facts had any impact on anything Eddie Makuch has ever posted? Reason doesn't make very good sensationalism, so that's the first thing that gets chucked out the door.

 samanoskay

 Nintendo will just get on with creating more games and leave it up to gamers to decide to give money to copycats or not. They are not threatened by companies like Zynga that have no ideas for themselves, unlike EA which likewise has no ideas for themselves which is why you see them causing a ruckus.

Simply put, any gamer worth thier name reject copycats in favour of the real deal, so thats where the problem lies. Every uninformed gamer giving money to companies like Zynga and EA are promoting the practice. And there are many other companies with great series that deserve your hard to com by dollars instead.

Let EA and Zynga fight over the crumbs at the talentless table and give the best to those companies that deserve our attention.

 Banefire76  samanoskay EA doesn't need ideas, they just keep scooping up awesome development studios, ruin them, and then get another one.  From another article on this site it looks like Insomniac is next up for the EA poisoning.