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CandySwipe Creator Writes Open Letter to King
- Thread starter BatDan
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FrostuTheNinja
Member
Hero of Legend
Member
Don't you mean a Candygram?
Pancakes R Us
Member
The sad thing is that courts allow this shit to happen. Little guy gets stomped on by these fucking companies all the time.
Mr_Pooriya
Member
It's a fucking disgrace!
SJRB
Gold Member
He clearly says the game is his livelihood. This is a weird logic, do you work for King by any chance?
infinityBCRT
Member
Thanks for the spoiler. That's exactly what he asked NOT to do.
Zomba13
Member
He's not blaming king for it not making money. He's blaming King for trying to stop him making money off of a game he created and released two years before king did their thing. And now king are tyring to say that they are the ones who should be getting money from it because they own the word candy.
They are fucking scum and should be paying this guy.
bodyboarder
Member
King keeping it classy.
The outcry is more about how a game, as you point out, out for two years before candy crush is forcibly taken down because it confuses people and steals the king's money.
Come on, seriously?!
Actually, and i've never watched or read, but you made it very clear that something terrible will happen to him. That's not the same as stating he exists.
How can you not see that it's a spoiler to tell someone that they will eventually be satisfied by a particular outcome concerning a character which they clearly hate?
That would have been the case, though I'm guessing that since King went on to purchase the rights to Candy Crusher which pre-dates Candy Swipe (but is unrelated to it), they used that to fight Candy Swipe's trademark
BinaryPork2737
Unconfirmed Member
This is just getting out of hand now. Everything King does just keeps getting more and more disgusting.
Sketch_Turntable
Member
You implying something will happen is still a spoiler.
Unfortunately King.com have been very clever here. The CandySwipe and Candy Crush Saga registrations are in class 9. CandySwipe clearly predates Candy Crush and thus has priorty. King.com knew they were fucked.
So, three months after the original application (which was AGAINST King) they went back as far as they could to find the first 'Candy' related trade mark IN CLASS 9 that was still active and used their financial muscle to purchase it. Now that they own the rights to the mark that predates CandySwipe, they can amalgamate the usage of their two marks (Candy Crusher and Candy Crush Saga) and they now have priority over CandySwipe.
Horrible, and morally shitty, but very, very clever. And legally, it's a winning move. The end, thanks for playing, where's the next poor prostitute I can go and torture.
So, three months after the original application (which was AGAINST King) they went back as far as they could to find the first 'Candy' related trade mark IN CLASS 9 that was still active and used their financial muscle to purchase it. Now that they own the rights to the mark that predates CandySwipe, they can amalgamate the usage of their two marks (Candy Crusher and Candy Crush Saga) and they now have priority over CandySwipe.
Horrible, and morally shitty, but very, very clever. And legally, it's a winning move. The end, thanks for playing, where's the next poor prostitute I can go and torture.
Pancakes R Us
Member
Not sure if trending yet but #ScrewKing is getting traction on Twitter.
njean777
Member
If I were the judge I would tell them to go fuck off if they even pursue suing this guy. Like literally when they came to the court I would tell them fuck off, case closed.
And I guess that's why there's this open letter basically admitting defeat. Game Over.
Kiru
Member
That's so disgusting.
Huh? How can they trademark words?
Define terrible. I never said anything about terrible.
Interpretations, how do they work? Clearly you know someting that I don't. Care to elaborate?
Once you do, you will understand the difference between what spoiling something actually means.
In the next episode, "SOMETHING HAPPENS!!!!".
Are you freaking serious? Sheldons, Sheldons everywhere.
Pancakes R Us
Member
Truly disgusting. Rich getting richer something something...
ProfessorLobo
Banned
So his game came out before Candy Crush? How can he be stopped?
Solid Samus
Banned
If ever there was a witchhunt I would actually involve myself in. Motherfucking scum deserve SWAT teams at their door on the weekly
hodayathink
Member
Apparently, because they bought the rights to a game that came out before both of them that had Candy in the title.
And that's why you're not a judge.
I'd love to hear exactly how all of his truthfully went down. King are obviously being devious as fuck but I wouldn't be surprised if they offered this guy money to give it up first and he asked for more or something and that's why they ended up screwing him over. And he's kind of blatantly playing up the dedicated to his mother thing too for sympathy which I kind of don't agree with. Hmm.
That's disgusting, as well as a pretty good reminder that "legal" doesn't mean shit when the laws have easy loopholes.
Do you know how silly that bolded part reads? It's Ransom's fucking property. Why should he accept their offer?
Wow, it's really Off-TopicGAF in here with the scumbag defense force.
Do you know how silly that bolded part reads? It's Ransom's fucking property. Why should he accept their offer?
Yes I agree King are doing shitty businessy things, whatever, I don't think that's up for debate at this point, and I'm not defending anything they did. I just don't feel like the appeal to people's sympathy is really all that genuine and I don't think people should take things like this open letter at face value without questioning it a little bit, how many more downloads his game got because of this? Just sayin'
Im not saying he should've accepted their offer if there was one, I'm saying it wouldn't surprise me if there was more to this story than he was letting on for the sake of getting as much sympathy as possible which is kind of shady too imo.
Psychotext
Member
Pretty damn disgusting. You'd never think that it was possible to be moral and still make money.
I've never bought anything from these clowns, and now they've guaranteed I never will (yeah I know, I'm irrelevant, but still).
I've never bought anything from these clowns, and now they've guaranteed I never will (yeah I know, I'm irrelevant, but still).
djSyndrome
Member
If you offer me $1000 for the car in my driveway and I say 'no thank you', that doesn't mean you get to come back the next day and drive off with it for free.
No but if you're shitty car was only worth $500 in the first place and then you wrote a sad story about how some asshole stole your car the day after your hamster died, left the part where he offered you $1000 first and ended up getting $2000+ in donations by preying on people's sympathy I'd probably try and say hey guys maybe don't give this guy any more money
UltimateRemag
Banned
fucKING!!!
djSyndrome
Member
point == missed
the part about his mom is a red herring; the crime here is that his IP was stolen, plain and simple.