Copyright Trolls Soon to Trademark the English Dictionary and the Alphabet.

[evildevil]

King ARE Trying To Candy-Crush The Banner Saga

Yesterday the internet was alive with the news about King, owners of Candy Crush Saga, their trademarking of the word “Candy”, and their ensuing threats to other developers who are using the word in their game titles. The response from King was to flap their eyelashes and protest innocence - they were

Comments

[leviicorpus]

SIGH

Guess that means I'll have to find a non-King owned game to kill my time with.

[theguindo]

Dragon Academy is a CCS clone that's much better designed, imo. Plus cute dragons!

[leviicorpus]

Dragons? Sold! ty!

[nesmith]

Can't wait until Popehat gets hold of this. King will quickly get a personal primer on the Streisand Effect.

Edit: And if it comes to a court battle, they could probably help Stoic get some pro bono help.

[kittymink]

Fuck patent trolls, etc.

Candy Crush Saga is hardly original, is it? Isn't just a Puzzle Bobble clone? Or a "match 2" game?

[amyura]

Or Bejeweled.

[girlomega]

I call those types of game "matchy match" games because that's literally what all you're doing.

[kittymink]

ha. that is a good name for them

[layweed]

your own fucking game isn't even original but a rip off of previous "match 3" games like Bejeweled. Their game "Bubble Witch Saga" is a ripoff of Puzzle Bobble.

[darth_eldritch]

Like this is easily confused with Candy Crush.

Anything to keep indie game developers from being a threat to the "established" game companies- The Banner Saga is already attracting a lot of attention and the big boys can't have that. Throw anything in their way to keep them from bringing quality games back.