The Death of Gaming - Page 36

**Wolf** · 11-07-2013, 08:24 AM

and then change the sprites best idea ever lol
12 year old kids: it's a whole new game

**Dudebro** · 11-07-2013, 09:40 AM

Is there more 18 seconds of copied cutscenes?

**KATZ** · 11-07-2013, 10:17 AM

or you know, it could be a reference to mw2.....

**Slime Slayer** · 11-07-2013, 02:15 PM

**Seahawk** · 02-08-2014, 08:46 PM

Here's real death of gaming material instead of system wars.

Clones. Clones everywhere.
App Flipping - How To Make Money With Apps - Turn $1K into a $200K Portfolio

**Slime Slayer** · 02-09-2014, 11:53 AM

**Dudebro** · 02-09-2014, 02:01 PM

To top that off all I've been hearing about the game is negative. It's supposedly buggy and other issues in the beta were not fixed.

**Demon-Mask** · 02-10-2014, 12:39 PM

Yeah, from what I've heard they never bothered finishing the game at all and fixing problems that are pretty well documented at this point, but they still wanna charge membership fees for content that's only a little bit different than what's already there.

The kicker is that people are going to buy it like it's nothing, too.

**Slime Slayer** · 02-12-2014, 04:06 PM

"Open letter to King.com who wants to cancel the registration of the CandySwipe trademark.
Dear King,

Congratulations! You win! I created my game CandySwipe in memory of my late mother who passed away at an early age of 62 of leukemia. I released CandySwipe in 2010 five months after she passed and I made it because she always liked these sorts of games. In fact, if you beat the full version of the android game, you will still get the message saying "...the game was made in memory of my mother, Layla..." I created this game for warmhearted people like her and to help support my family, wife and two boys 10 and 4. Two years after I released CandySwipe, you released Candy Crush Saga on mobile; the app icon, candy pieces, and even the rewarding, "Sweet!" are nearly identical. So much so, that I have hundreds of instances of actual confusion from users who think CandySwipe is Candy Crush Saga, or that CandySwipe is a Candy Crush Saga knockoff. So when you attempted to register your trademark in 2012, I opposed it for "likelihood of confusion" (which is within my legal right) given I filed for my registered trademark back in 2010 (two years before Candy Crush Saga existed). Now, after quietly battling this trademark opposition for a year, I have learned that you now want to cancel my CandySwipe trademark so that I don't have the right to use my own game's name. You are able to do this because only within the last month you purchased the rights to a game named Candy Crusher (which is nothing like CandySwipe or even Candy Crush Saga). Good for you, you win. I hope you're happy taking the food out of my family's mouth when CandySwipe clearly existed well before Candy Crush Saga.

I have spent over three years working on this game as an independent app developer. I learned how to code on my own after my mother passed and CandySwipe was my first and most successful game; it's my livelihood, and you are now attempting to take that away from me. You have taken away the possibility of CandySwipe blossoming into what it has the potential of becoming. I have been quiet, not to exploit the situation, hoping that both sides could agree on a peaceful resolution. However, your move to buy a trademark for the sole purpose of getting away with infringing on the CandySwipe trademark and goodwill just sickens me.

This also contradicts your recent quote by Riccardo in "An open letter on intellectual property" posted on your website which states, "We believe in a thriving game development community, and believe that good game developers – both small and large - have every right to protect the hard work they do and the games they create."

I myself was only trying to protect my hard work.

I wanted to take this moment to write you this letter so that you know who I am. Because I now know exactly what you are. Congratulations on your success!

Sincerely,
Albert Ransom
President (Founder), Runsome Apps Inc."

http://www.candyswipe.com/king.html

**CrispyChicken** · 02-12-2014, 05:35 PM

WOW. If that is true, that is just really sad. Even worse, this kind of thing probably happens frequently on the app store. All these apps look like carbon copies of the next.

**Slime Slayer** · 02-12-2014, 07:12 PM

It's pantsu on head retarded. It's also retarded how they are all identical to Bejeweled, with might even be identical to something that predated it, for all I know.

**Dudebro** · 02-12-2014, 09:11 PM

Oh this is very true. It stems from the makers of Candy Crush trademarking the word "candy". I know that seems like a joke but apparently it's true. They're also trying to or already did trademark "saga" and they went after a game called Banner Factions Saga for their use of saga even though it's an ancient and common word and the game has absolutely no similarities to their game. It's sickening. There should be laws against this.

**Slime Slayer** · 02-13-2014, 01:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dudebro

There should be laws against this.

Or at least fair judges with common sense.

**bearhawk72** · 02-13-2014, 01:53 AM

So you ran into one of several game breaking bugs in Arkham Origins? Too bad they aren't bothering to fix them.

Quote:

"Hi all,

The team is currently working hard on the upcoming story DLC and there currently are no plans for releasing another patch to address the issues that have been reported on the forums.

If we do move forward with creating a new patch, it will try to address the progression blocking bugs for players, not the minor glitches that do not prevent one from continuing to play. The issues that are not progression blockers will unfortunately no longer be addressed.

We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused for some of you, and want to thank you for having been patient."

**Demon-Mask** · 02-13-2014, 12:54 PM

Man, game breaking glitches being deliberately ignored /and/ story DLC, it's like double kill or something

**Slime Slayer** · 02-13-2014, 02:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Demon-Mask

Man, game breaking glitches being deliberately ignored /and/ story DLC, it's like double kill or something

Hey DM, long time no see. They've already sold the product, caring about customer satisfaction is a thing of the past these days.

**bearhawk72** · 02-16-2014, 02:45 PM

So in final Fantasy 13, if you are not beating the boss the way the game wants you to, the boss will cast doom on you after a certain amount of time.

Screw you if you were doing well with your own strategy, you didn't do it how WE wanted so you die and start over.

**Demon-Mask** · 02-18-2014, 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevencassidy13

Hey DM, long time no see. They've already sold the product, caring about customer satisfaction is a thing of the past these days.

I'm in and out, trying to stick around for good this time. College and all that fun stuff.

Yeah, it's kind of dumb that there's no focus on customer satisfaction whatsoever anymore, especially with AAA developers.
I guess that's the side-effect of being able to release patches for games, in the past if a game was released with game-breaking glitches that were unavoidable, well, that was it and the company's reputation took a hit, but if there's patches you can release a half-finished game and straight up say that you won't fix the problems at this time, and people will still say "well, maybe they'll get to it eventually," and even if they never fix it, they still end up making more and more money the next time around.

**Slime Slayer** · 03-26-2014, 12:14 PM

The Bethesda Store - Wolfenstein: The New Order Panzerhund Edition - Wolfenstein - Brands

>doesnt include the game

**DrunkN** · 03-26-2014, 12:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevencassidy13

The Bethesda Store - Wolfenstein: The New Order Panzerhund Edition - Wolfenstein - Brands

>doesnt include the game

Lol. You'd think they'd avoid calling it "game title special edition" unless it actually included a copy.

Anyways it just seems like some harmless merchandising for the collectors.

**Dudebro** · 03-26-2014, 12:36 PM

I don't see the problem when it says it doesn't contain the game in bold letters and even hammers the point home by telling people not to cancel their preorders. Anyone looking to spend 100 bucks on a game is probably the type who reads descriptions fully anyways.

**Slime Slayer** · 03-26-2014, 12:49 PM

I think they are trying to trick people into thinking the game is included. For that matter, why isn't the game included? Regardless, only in video games is this type of thing viable. We are as a whole, truly the most retarder consumer base, bar none.