Trademark Troll Sues Original Game Creator for Theft: They Stole Our Idea 2 Years Before Us!!

[evildevil]

There is Evil, and Then There is Pure Evil.

Candy Crush Saga makers to sue game they copied‘I hope you’re happy taking the food out of my family’s mouth’, says creator of CandySwipe - as developer King attempts to cancel his trademark

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[blackjedii]

yeah see I remember playing that game in 2008

When it ha bubbles

And I remember Angry Birds in like, 2005

When it was all about smashing an old lady's teahouse

I really love the whole mobile app/game market because it's really unregulated and a race to the bottom in terms of pricing. Recipe for disaster if I've ever seen one.

[roseofjuly]

I find mobile app/game marketing to be so, so interesting. Like I have been fascinated by the Snapchat saga and how their team has turned down two multibillion-dollar attempts to buy them out, despite having made no money yet. I don't think they're stupid, but I'm just really curious as to how they plan to make money other than the somewhat-obvious "sell ads and in-app purchases." Sure, but what KINDS of ads and in-game purchases? How are you going to get teenagers and young adults, largely the users of Snapchat, to buy things in-app (when they often don't have credit or debit cards) and not discard your app for something better once you put annoying ads on there

[blackjedii]

The thing with mobile gaming is that - how t phrase it - there's not really that much money in it. Obviously Angry Birds and Candy Crush are the exceptions but remember Zynga?
The good thing about mobile games is that you can make them dirt cheap but the problem is if they cost more than say, two or three dollars, you're not going to sell them.
And it's been a gaming -ism for the past few years that all the console games were going under because of the mobile market and I don't quite agree with that yet. The business model is extremely shaky because it does rely on either very small microtransactions, ads, or making a super-popular game which isn't guaranteed.

Flappy Bird SHOULD have been the new craze but I think the owner was more worried about getting sued. Apparently Nintendo wasn't all that nonplussed though so who knows - it might come out again.

[lyricmaniac]

Candy Crush Saga is ridiculous, but the trademark office is even more ridiculous for allowing them to trademark 'candy' in a game title. There are so many ridiculous trademarks and patents granted that innovation is being stifled.

[eveofrevolution]

[dissident]

So it's ok to steal the idea because you like Candy Crush better?

[lafinjack]

[eveofrevolution]

[thedisassociate]

both king and the trademark office are fucking ridiculous.

[effervescent]

There's also this bullshit, too. Trademarking the word candy, ffs.

Yeah, I don't play this game. I wish that the other one was a paid game, I'd actually buy it to give the developer some money. The fact that the trademark was approved is ridiculous.