More drama prior to Zynga and Electronic Arts lawsuit – Video Games Update
Electronic Arts (EA) has thanked the fans for supporting the publisher as it takes Zynga to court over infringement of Intellectual property (IP).
Just a week ago, EA announced that Zynga’s upcoming Facebook social game The Ville was a complete knock-off of EA’s The Sims and because of that the giant publisher is suing Zynga to protect its IPs. The timing for this move is quite peculiar as Zynga has
enough financial problems without the latest lawsuit from EA.
Zynga’s share price has fallen by over 40 percent during the last month and investigators have reported that there was indeed something fishy going on in the company as the admin stands accused of insider trading. ‘Kick ‘em while they’re down’ seems to be
EA’s current plan as the publisher hopes to pressurise Zynga with a lawsuit at the worst time.
Despite being the second largest video games publisher in the market right now, EA gets its fair share of hate from the games as well for its recent business decisions and the face that gamers believe that the publisher is ruining IPs by changing the genre
to appeal to the casual crowd. It appears that gamers consider Zynga even worse than EA as the majority of the gamers on the internet have sided with EA regarding the lawsuit.
“This action definitely touched a nerve in the gaming community. The response from peers within the industry, EA and Maxis employees and players of not only The Sims
but all games in support of EA’s action was amazing and fast. So here’s another post to simply say Thank You. Your kind words and emotional support add strength to my conviction that we’re doing the right thing,” stated Lucy Bradshaw who is the Label General
Manager at Maxis, the developers behind the Sims.
This just shows that gamers appreciate innovation and originality in the industry and hate Zynga. The company has made their name plagiarising successful IPs and putting them on Facebook before the original developers.
Now only if Electronic Arts would follow its own principle and stop trying to change every franchise they own into a Call of Duty or a Gears of War clone, gamers would stop hating the publisher as well.
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