"A GoozerNation discussion of just how much copying and pasting should be permissible between different games."
The acquisition of Zynga by Take-Two Interactive might become the video game industry's version of the AOL Time Warner merger.
I have to give props for the use of Electric Boogaloo reference. I don't think many young folk will even know what that is.
On topic... wasn't that where Don Mattrick went after leaving XB?
Mobile publisher and developer Zynga, with the hiring of Matt Wolf as VP, seeks to reaffirm its intentions to enter blockchain gaming.
After a year in soft-launch, Zynga's nostalgia-evoking title FarmVille 3 is geared for a global release with the launch of a sneak peek video
When it's obvious and unimaginative.
Quoted from a former employee:
“I don’t [expletive] want innovation,” the ex-employee recalls Pincus saying. “You’re not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.”
Further evidence:
FarmVille is similar almost to the pixel to a rival game called Farm Town that debuted months earlier, and Mafia Wars is lifted wholesale from Mob Wars… a pilfering which ended in a lawsuit.