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[Wario64]

Bravo, Zynga!

And the kicker? Zynga tried to acquire Nimblebit!

https://twitter.com/#!/eeen/status/161966746453024769

"They did go the honest route and try to acquire us first."

https://twitter.com/#!/eeen/status/161996358973276162

"If you peek inside the app binary the project is named Towerville and inhabitants are named zitizens."

 

[V_Ben]

Shameless.

 

[Weenerz]

Old

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=460181

 

[Meier]

Posted a thread about this..but in the OT. :| No mods responding to my requests to move it, boo.

 

[Zeouterlimits]

Wow.
Obviously some of the systems in TinyTower aren't original, but that's a horrible wholesale copy.

Dirty as fuck.

>_>. Does it have the Facebook-esc status's by the residents?

 

[sorijealut]

Was Zynga that Chinese company that ripped off mario kart? wow...

 

[MaximusNeo701]

wow, there has to be some sort of copyright infringement there. I salute Numblebit for not dragging lawyers into this and just moving forward and pointing it out. But apple should really pull this... This is a joke

 

[Nabs]

Wow

 

[entremet]

Was Zynga that Chinese company that ripped off mario kart? wow...

They're not Chinese. They're based in America.

 

[Emitan]

Apple: Bringing Chinese knockoffs to the west!

 

[erpg]

I am incredibly surprised.

 

[Wario64]

And the kicker? Zynga tried to acquire Nimblebit!

https://twitter.com/#!/eeen/status/161966746453024769

"They did go the honest route and try to acquire us first."

 

[Dog Problems]

Wasn't it the Zynga CEO who said something along the lines of, "You're not better than your competitors, just copy what they do?"

 

[sorijealut]

And the kicker? Zynga tried to acquire Nimblebit!

https://twitter.com/#!/eeen/status/161966746453024769

"They did go the honest route and try to acquire us first."

What is this level of shamelessness?!

 

[Chocoboko]

And the kicker? Zynga tried to acquire Nimblebit!

https://twitter.com/#!/eeen/status/161966746453024769

"They did go the honest route and try to acquire us first."

Wow, that makes it even worse.

 

[Mooreberg]

GameLoft: "Zynga is copying our idea!"

 

[Tiktaalik]

yeah wow that is a really, really close copy. Shameless.

 

[DangerousDave]

Let's see if Zynga also copy the idea of making the bucks a regular reward, instead of trying to rape us with necessary bucks that you only can get with real money.

I bet no.

 

[AlphaTwo00]

I jammed it in the official Tiny Towers OT, but sure, own thread, why not.

Holy shit. They didn't even try, did they?

 

[Jonnyram]

Despicable.

 

[Majine]

They are metadeveloping as Gameloft.

 

[Emitan]

What?

This is the kind of thing you'd expect in China, a shameless ripoff of another product.

 

[Keyser Soze]

All I see is that they are both shit, crash grab, exploitative, non-entertaining games

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

LOLing for when Gameloft inevitably copies Zynga.

 

[buhdeh]

Half the games on the app store are shameless rip offs of other games anyways.

 

[ThusZarathustra]

Are there people who are surprised about this? This is all (attempted acquisition included) business as usually for Zynga.

Bullying? Entirely.
Corporate? Through and through.
Scummy? In amounts that do this ∞ symbol injustice.

Welcome to how Zynga does business! Brought to you by masses of uninformed uninterested consumers who are more than happy to "play" busy-work games until the end of time.

UGH.

 

[dallow_bg]

Bring on the Gameloft port of port.

This is the kind of thing you'd expect in China, a shameless ripoff of another product.

Ok... What does Apple have to do with it?
We don't blame Nintendo for Cake Ninja.

 

[Fantastical]

That is way worse than I thought it was going to be. They seriously must of just had their iPhones on and built it while looking at it.

 

[Emitan]

Bring on the Gameloft port of port.

Ok... What does Apple have to do with it?
We don't blame Nintendo for Cake Ninja.

Because it's their store, their walled garden. They approved this.

 

[Rebel Leader]

Shameless.

I remenber something from them..
I forgot the quote

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

And Tiny Tower still looks better.

 

[Fantastical]

And Tiny Tower still looks better.

Charming, original games tend to look better than lifeless ripoffs.

 

[Jonnyram]

I guess more than anything, I'm depressed that Area/Code allowed themselves to be bought out by these cunts.

 

[Rebel Leader]

Wasn't it the Zynga CEO who said something along the lines of, "You're not better than your competitors, just copy what they do?"

It was not that but something similar

 

[codhand]

It's like the Giana Sisters of Tower Defense, one day we will play its sequel ironically.

 

[Haunted]

All I see is that they are both shit, crash grab, exploitative, non-entertaining games

Well yeah, but one is a clear ripoff of the other on top of all that.


Zynga, Gameloft and all the other companies like them are the vilest fucking thing about our industry.

 

[Slayven]

Shit like this is why IOS gaming will crash. Use to take months to ripoff a game, now you can do it in an afternoon and undercut the original.

 

[Emitan]

It's like the Giana Sisters of Tower Defense, one day we will play its sequel ironically.

Tiny Towers as a Tower Defense game would actually be pretty cool.

 

[AlphaTwo00]

The best part, this game has been out for maybe a day, and some of the user reviews are just GOLD.

 

[Metalmurphy]

iPhone GOTY was a Sim Tower rip off? That's sad.

 

[5amshift]

Awesome call out by Nimblebit.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

Fuck Zynga, honestly.

 

[dallow_bg]

Because it's their store, their walled garden. They approved this.

...

And we're done.

 

[Anony]

guess nimblebit never played simtower before

 

[Apoc29]

I hope Zynga doesn't read the Internet; they might not like what people are saying about them.

 

[dallow_bg]

guess nimblebit never played simtower before

Have you played SimTower? Or Tiny Tower for that matter.

 

[Haunted]

It's funny, I just read this quote from one of the developers behind Match 3 game Triple Town talking about this topic when they brought their game from the web to phone.

If you love Triple Town, please download it (it is free) and rate it. We are in a bit of a David and Goliath situation here since a very large and nasty company copied Triple Town on mobile right at the end of December. We're a small team and we work hard, but moving to the phone took a few precious months. I don't quite know how to express the feeling of bleeding our lives out trying to finish the game...all while watching a soulless shark lavishly spend VC cash to ride up the chart. Using my own design. That was like a punch in the gut. Betrayal, violation and powerlessness all wrapped up into one unpleasant emotion. This has easily been one of the most emotionally difficult releases I've ever done.

To add insult to injury, the night we got ready to upload the Android version we made an awkward discovery: There was already a game called Triple Town being sold by a certain Mr. WangYang. In fact, it was Triple Town. The art was ripped from the web version. The logo was the same. Check out that screenshot...captured for posterity. I want to send big thank you to Google. Even though their offices had closed for the night, they took down the fake immediately. That was deeply appreciated.

Just shitty practice that there's so little that can be done about ripoffs in this industry.

iPhone GOTY was a Sim Tower rip off? That's sad.

The Superbrothers game was the mobile gaming GAF GOTY 2011. The only award that counts.

 

[Emitan]

...

And we're done.

Done what?

 

[iceatcs]

I don't see what the illegal problem. Both see have complete different art.

 

[AEREC]

I guess they couldnt copy the charm of Tiny Tower...seriously, that art design is hideous.