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Candy Crush and Candy Swipe

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So something sh**y is happening and I think you guys should know. I've never played either of these games, but after reading all this, well...you'll understand when you read it.

 

http://imgur.com/gallery/WLfWX9N

http://imgur.com/gallery/LiebL

 


King, the developers of Candy Crush Saga, are playing rotten to ensure no other games can touch their already monstrous lead. They're trying to reserve the words "candy", "crush", and "saga", and have made threats to games with any of those words in the title, even if they bear no resemblance at all. They're also trying to snuff out a 1-person developer by attacking the trademark of Candy Swipe, a game that looks remarkably similar but came out 2 years BEFORE Candy Crush. All this, on top of the exploitative freemium model they employ.

I'm posting this because I know many people my age who play this game, including (formerly) myself. If you don't want to support King, start by uninstalling this app. If you feel strongly, tell friends to boycott the game and leave a bad review on the app stores. Here's more information about this situation:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/21/stealing-candy-from-babies-king-embrace-the-aristocracy/

http://www.candyswipe.com/king.html

http://www.candyswipe.com/ccs.pdf

King is misbehaving, and they should not be allowed to get away with it. There have been many instances of other companies (in all industries) acting this way, too. Taking action not only helps the initial offense, but sets an example for the future that this is not acceptable.

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So something sh**y is happening and I think you guys should know. I've never played either of these games, but after reading all this, well...you'll understand when you read it.

 

http://imgur.com/gallery/WLfWX9N

http://imgur.com/gallery/LiebL

I like candy crush saga and have played it. It's really stupid that King wants to do this to game developers (Indie as well) It's really sad that developers these days only wants more profit.

I believe that game developers has seen us as consumer cows. it's really sad to see that these so called microtransactions is just ruining the good name of gaming. Also many AAA games like Battlefield 4, Call of Duty and other rushed projects are being rushed in development so it can be on the market in time for the holidays. Games are a representation of art and you can't rush art. I'm getting tired buying buggy games with developers promising to fix it later.

 

Sure games have bugs in the code, all games of course.

But patching something that should of been fixed is getting annoying.

 

Probably many think that i should wait peoples reactions of the game before buying the actual product.

however i feel that people are only covering the positive side of games and later i find something that annoys me a whole lot.

 

anyhow back on topic as always.

 

King.com are A-holes because they want to frick up the original developer of the original candy bejeweled series. (CandySwipe)

Seriously i hate that many developers are re-using ideas instead of producing new ideas and maybe those new ideas can be a game changing experience.

 

I cannot say that copying ideas is bad, in a way it's a good thing to have re-used ideas because developers can re-invent the formula and make other developers do so. but no many prefer to re-used without any new ideas to it.

 

that's all i can say for now.

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Lol. Not too surprising.

 

Lets talk legally. The thing is that the developer who used the words before doesn't matter. They never gained anywhere near that recognition nor did they use any unique creative words.

 

Candy crush has a right to protect it's brand. It's theres and people who use similar names may be commiting a tort called passing off which is basically getting sales by piggy backing on someone else's brand.

 

The only issue with this is that they're trying to protect common, bland, non-descriptive words. Protecting the string of words "candy crush", that's no problem. But this.....

They're trying to reserve the words "candy", "crush", and "saga"

Only in disney land is something so absurd possible.... I assume the "reserve" refers to trademarks. No legit registrar would ever in a million years give a trademark over single words that exist in a dictionary.

 

The issue is that they've built enormous reputation using very bland words, making passing-off reasonably arguable. In light of this, I think it's quite easy to make such legal threats because they've got the money and the massive reputation (if everyone knows you, its easier to establish someone else is trying to take advantage of your brand) and these little developers have no hope in defending the legal challenge.

 

So they do have something to protect and which the law allows them to protect, but yeah they're being assholes, and their attempts to protect those words ought to fail miserably.

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Then I have to cancel my upcoming game Candy Quest : The First Journey....King.com you scumbags...

Edited by Ultim1337Gamer

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