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« Reply #315 on: June 17, 2011, 01:12:47 PM » |
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Gimmy posted a link to a YouTube video of Cube World. I posted a link to the Feedback thread for Cube World on these very boards.
EDIT: This was in response to Conker's post on the previous page...
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C.A. Sinner
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« Reply #316 on: June 17, 2011, 01:22:27 PM » |
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I've noticed that it's kind of popular for developers who rip off Minecraft to claim they weren't actually inspired by Minecraft, what's up with that?
I'd have less of a problem with this current fad if people were honest enough to admit their games are similar to MC instead of being all "Hey guys, I'm making an Open World Block Building Game™ that has nothing to do with Minecraft except looking and playing almost exactly the same."
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« Reply #317 on: June 17, 2011, 02:51:41 PM » |
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I've noticed that it's kind of popular for developers who rip off Minecraft to claim they weren't actually inspired by Minecraft, what's up with that?
just like irate gamer and avgn |
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« Reply #318 on: June 17, 2011, 03:00:35 PM » |
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This sort of denying-any-connection-in-spite-of-obvious-evidence-to-the-contrary thing is pretty common with ripoffs in general, probably because the copiers are afraid of getting sued. But it's not like Notch could realistically sue any Minecraft ripoffs (and win), considering MC is obviously based on Infiniminer whose author doesn't mind people copying his work.
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« Reply #319 on: June 17, 2011, 07:41:37 PM » |
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This sort of denying-any-connection-in-spite-of-obvious-evidence-to-the-contrary thing is pretty common with ripoffs in general, probably because the copiers are afraid of getting sued. But it's not like Notch could realistically sue any Minecraft ripoffs (and win), considering MC is obviously based on Infiniminer whose author doesn't mind people copying his work.
Though Blue needs to worry about clonk(and other 2d terrain manipulation game ) developers suing him for biting their build and destroy terrain in 2d. |
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« Reply #320 on: June 18, 2011, 06:28:48 AM » |
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This sort of denying-any-connection-in-spite-of-obvious-evidence-to-the-contrary thing is pretty common with ripoffs in general, probably because the copiers are afraid of getting sued. But it's not like Notch could realistically sue any Minecraft ripoffs (and win), considering MC is obviously based on Infiniminer whose author doesn't mind people copying his work.
I don't think you can actually sue if your game plays and looks similarily dude.  Can you imagine the carnage if you could?  |
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Christian Knudsen
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« Reply #321 on: June 18, 2011, 06:49:32 AM » |
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You can if it's a complete rip-off. It's happened in the past. But that isn't the case here, of course.
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« Reply #322 on: June 18, 2011, 10:11:27 AM » |
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What's with all these cave story rip-offs, can you believe that stuff?
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BlueSweatshirt
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« Reply #323 on: June 18, 2011, 10:16:41 AM » |
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What's with all these cave story rip-offs, can you believe that stuff?
Man, Cave Story was obviously a Metroid ripoff. Can you believe that guy Pixel? He's such a jerk. He should be sued. |
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« Reply #324 on: June 18, 2011, 12:27:38 PM » |
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This sort of denying-any-connection-in-spite-of-obvious-evidence-to-the-contrary thing is pretty common with ripoffs in general, probably because the copiers are afraid of getting sued. But it's not like Notch could realistically sue any Minecraft ripoffs (and win), considering MC is obviously based on Infiniminer whose author doesn't mind people copying his work.
I don't know, Zynga constantly rips off (not 'gets inspired by', _rips off_) existing games and they are currently suing a company for ripping their game off. http://gamasutra.com/view/news/35300/Zynga_Takes_Developer_To_Court_For_Blatant_Copyright_Infringement.phpIt's more like, Notch isn't an evil sociopath like those who run Zynga, so he probably won't sue. |
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Conker
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« Reply #325 on: June 18, 2011, 12:43:23 PM » |
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Who cares if it ripped off? I mean, thats how a genre starts.
Finally people are taking it in a different direction, that rpg voxel game, woo!
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« Reply #326 on: June 20, 2011, 01:38:48 AM » |
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To be fair, Zynga has a basis for the lawsuit (after I took some time to actually read up on it), being unoriginal is not illegal, just boring, but straight down copying games 1:1 is way beyond. |
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alastair
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« Reply #327 on: June 20, 2011, 04:57:32 AM » |
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Should leave the ripoff "discussions" on blogposts and youtube where they can be forgotten.
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« Reply #328 on: June 21, 2011, 03:41:28 AM » |
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Should leave the ripoff "discussions" on blogposts and youtube where they can be forgotten.
I agree. But it's apparently a hot topic. I personally think they didn't rip it off, but got heavily inspired. Which is good for the most part. |
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