EA Sues Zynga for Copying The Sims Social

[FamoFunk]

I ain't even ashamed to be supporting EA in this. It's about time Zynga perished without a leg or penny to stand on. I hate them.

 

[vherkin]

Look Zynga, you're so evil than even Satan as come to kick your arse.
Goodjob !

 

[Naqel]

EA doing something good? Something I can... compliment?

Oh well, 2012. The world will end soon, all signs the signs are coming true.

Then again, it's still not enough for me not to consider them being dicks. And it's still a long way before I agree to install Origin.

 

[TheKaduflyerSystem]

This would explain why my index finger was twitching, my Kadzie sense was a-tingling...
'you will do something unheard of and go against your own die-hard belief'
Goooo... EA? W()()T!

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

EA is the lesser evil in this case.

 

[Metalrocks]

even when i hate ?A and i never ever played any of zyngas games, i actually have to agree with ?A for suing them.
i have heard so many copyright violation articles from zynga that i really cant blame any company like ?A, for suing them.

 

[PunkRex]

HA! The answer box below me asked 'which one is hottest?'... forgive me for not wanting to answer that.

 

[Warped_Ghost]

As much I hate some of EA's practices I have to admit they have a backbone.

 

[Ickorus]

..Go EA?

I feel so dirty now and yet I know they are in the right for once.

 

[Metalrocks]

..Go EA?

I feel so dirty now and yet I know they are in the right for once.

it does feel weird, doenst it?? that we actually agree with the devil for once. i cant believe either what i have written earlier.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

Hmm...
Maybe if we set fire to the courtroom we can take both of them out at the same time.

 

[Idlemessiah]

Although I don't like either company, I'm rooting for EA on this one since Zynga are nothing more than a plague on the games industry which need to be EXPUNGED!

"Expunge" is a good word. Expuuuunge!

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

Hmmmmm...

*reads through the case notes, referenced copyright law, and claims carefully*

Yes, EA is certainly 100% right in this instance. So it's not just my bias against the Zynga.

This is almost a case of two of the biggest bullies at high school finally crossing paths with each other and the newest bully intentionally spits in the other's eye and they start having it out. Then the bully that you used to be friends with years ago in elementary school, who changed unexpectedly after they came back from summer camp that one year, starts to win and you find yourself rooting for him almost immediately and--okay this analogy just became a tangent.

The point is, [HEADING=1]GO EA!!![/HEADING]

 

[Zyst]

This makes me think of a really big fish, who is a huge huge asshole, and constantly fucks around with the other fish and begins he's thinking the biggest fish in the ocean THEN BOOM fucking giga sperm whale octobearpig comes in and says 'oh that's cute'.

I hate myself for cheering EA on this but hell, here's hoping they win.

 

[Taunta]

Oh Zynga. Ohhhhhhhhh Zynga. You really fucked up this time. Did you get too confident from picking on smaller companies, I wonder? When one is hurting for funds, one ought not to do something to piss off EA's lawyers.

I'm head over heels in The Sims 3 right now, so I'm feeling generous towards EA (at least their TS3 team), but even without that all I can do is look at Zynga and laugh and shake my head at them.

 

[Dead Seerius]

Look at it this way. If Zynga dies then maybe the social gaming market will dry up with it, and maybe by extension Facebook will suffer a large hit. Isn't that a good thing?

Facebook itself can be a great means of contacting friends and seeing what's going on in the world, so I would really hate to see the site itself fail.

FarmVille requests on the other hand? ...Burn in Hell Zynga!
I never thought I'd see the day when I'd side with EA on a lawsuit, but here it is.

 

[ThriKreen]

Yeah, if EA actually wins this, it'll be really troubling for the industry as a whole. The end result of cloning lawsuits like this wouldn't be trying to take out clones, it would be simply another means to stifle competition. If you're EA and you want to stop, say, an independent developer from releasing a game, you simply find a similar title in your ridiculously massive back catalog and sue them for "cloning" that.

You'd notice that EA has not done anything to the makers of Anno 2070 or CitiesXL, and probably other similar SimCity style world building games. I'm guessing, as I haven't played them, that while they are inspired by the Sim* series, the mechanics of those games are probably very different.

What Zynga is infamous for, and probably what the crux of this lawsuit is about, is directly ripping off both art style and gameplay mechanics. Indeed, we've seen numerous articles of the owner of Zynga telling the employees to not innovate, but just to directly copy things off their competitors, then leverage their huge player base to drown the competitors away.

Only this time, the group they tried to drown is a whale known as EA.

EA knows a frivolous and vague lawsuit won't get anywhere, like if they tried it against the other games, so chances are this one is going to be very, very specific, and it increases their chances of success.

 

[The White Hunter]

silly silly people thinking they could get away with stealling a game from EA. this could be the final nail in the coffin for those thieves

Nail? It's probably gonna be more like a railroad spike. Of all the companies they really are getting sued by one of the worst.

For once, EA, you have undertaken something good and wholesome. I wonder if this will lead to more good things (probably not..).

 

[Blazing Steel]

Zynga, it was nice knowing you. Ha, bout damn time. I'm still not happy with you EA, but this is a positive step. Maybe this could be start of a new EA, a company that stands up for the weak!

Lol, who am I kidding, I'm just rooting for the lesser of two evils here.