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Definitely this. I don't expect it to be a silver bullet, but it's a piece of the puzzle. Credibility is a bigger thing than they imagine and this will hopefully be a humbling experience for them.
I hope to god so. I suspect the problem with them making the Zynga version of, well... everything, stems from the top down. With the resources and people they have, they could be making a lot more original stuff. That's riskier though.
Humbling experiences aside, I don't see them surviving long-term without a widely imaginative series of changes to their product catalog. Assuming EA wins the actual suit rather than taking a settlement, this will open up the legal floodgates so-to-speak for all the smaller guys who couldn't afford the costs of long-term litigation before. What was an unlikely chance to win before now becomes almost guaranteed win. The thing I think no one really is considering however will be that we won't hear of a judgement in this case for well over a year or two even after this goes to court. Who knows? Maybe Zynga will fold before the ever trial concludes.
We'll see once more details emerge.
Oh, no, I agree it must have been intentional. But still, it's skin.
That's not the point. It's evidence of directly copied values and coding of the game. Like I said, it's not on the level of the Chinese company that copied Torchlight, but it's fucking up there. All the personality types between EA's game and Zynga's are the same, just differently worded. The layout of the starting home is more or less mirror-imaged in Zynga's version. And even the kinds of animations are the same (presented proof was "evil" characters doing the same hand-rub thing).
RGB values are something where a + or - here and there will still generally have the same color, in a sense. But exact same values for three fields ranging from 0 to 255 is not just coincidence.
And this right here is why EA is going to win the lawsuit.
If they go down, think Facebook's stock takes a hit as well?
How will you be able to tell? Not like their stock is worth anything to begin with
They certainly went after Langdell far after their own interests had been satisfied. EA pushed so hard that the final judgment basically required Langdell to send letters to everyone that had licensed "Edge" from him say that a court of law had found him to be a fraud and he owed everyone a refund. EA seriously tore him a new asshole, then tore him three more just to be sure. It was one of the most one-sided legal smackdowns I've seen in a long time.
It's still hysterical as all hell to me, I can't believe that happened.
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Haha that's great. Kind of my reaction too. Extremely brief for a Tycho news post
How do you expect them to respond? "Mea culpa! YOU GOT US! HAVE A BILLION BOONDOLLARS"?
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no public statement, out of court settlement?
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"No comment" works. It's not necessarily that they said they're going to fight back, it's how they went about it (like saying EA doesn't understand copyright law, or accusing EA of copying a city building game which EA is kinda known for). It's the blend of arrogance and stupidity.
I hope EA doesn't go for it. I don't think settlements necessarily give the impact of establishing that something wrong was done or some violation was made.
Zynga will try to make the court case last as long as possible to try and pressure EA into settling.
And to what someone asked earlier: Nothing here prevents Zynga from suing EA, and you can't copyright 'concepts,' you copyright things that are expressed in a tangible medium.
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