Hello friends, do you remember your favourite game Candy Crush Saga. We have discussed in our previous post all about the game like how you can download Candy Crush Saga for your PC. You must be thinking that why we are here today, if we have discussed all in our previous post. Today we are here to give news that, all fans of this game should stop using Candy Crush Saga game, reason for this saying is discussed below.
Stop Using Candy Crush Saga Game
In below paragraph we are discussing that why we are saying you to stop playing Candy Crush Saga game. It is said because this game is not ethic. So not taking much of your time, let’s move on the discussion;
King.com is the official website and maker of Candy Crush Saga game. Company has recently trademarked the word “Candy” and now they are using their legal & financial power against smaller competing companies.
It is said by Junkyard Sam & Nick Bray that this Candy Crush Saga game (King.com) is concerned about intellectual property. When they so blatantly copied our game “Scamperghost” with their game “Pac-Avoid” in late 2009. Company says that King.com has copied various things from “Scamperghost” game in their “Pac-Avoid” game. Let’s have a look over the similarities of these two games;
1. Game Menu
2. Instruction
3. Gameboard & User Interface
4. Gameplay (Same “Slow-Mo” Mechanic & Ghost Behavior)
5. Game Over
How All Happened and Proof of Candy Crush Saga Ethic
Junkyard Sam & Nick Bray had a talk with Lars Jornow at King.com to license our Scamperghost game. As soon as deal was closed or we can say that before contract was signed, MaxGames.com made a better offer so we thank King for considering our game and politely ended our negotiations.
King.com that is a very huge company has made an attack in return for a similar deal and quickly made a direct clone of our game and almost released it before us. King.com eventually emailed us a mail like this;
| from: Lars Jörnow <larsj@king.com> date: Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:43 AM subject: IndieGamer Forum post mailed-by: king.comWe wanted to sponsor Scamper Ghost since it’s a great game and since we were actively looking for an avoider game at the time. The flash world is filled of similar-looking games, and there are probably hundreds of avoider-games with similar menus, a box with enemies, and coins – and we thought Scamper Ghost was awesome.Scamper Ghost is a great game. We’re sorry our deal didn’t turn out with you guys – you made out with more money and we were left without an avoider game that we had already planned on. We needed an avoider game and sponsored a similar game.- Lars |
But it was worse than just “sponsorship of a similar game.” We tracked down the developer that made Pac-Avoid and it turns out they were contacted by King.com to clone the game.
| from: Porter porter@epicshadow.com date: Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:25 PM subject: Pac Avoid / Scamper GhostFirst off, sorry that we (Andrew and I of EpicShadow) cloned your game for Lars of King.com. I know there’s a ton of rumor as to what happened, so here’s the exact details, you believing them is your decision. Lars approached us one day explaining that you (Stolen Goose) had signed a contract, had been working with him on finishing the deal, and then got a better deal and backed out. As tempting as more cash would be, if contract was signed, douche move. I don’t know if that actually happened, so feel free to clear it up. He asked us to clone the game very quickly, and even wanted to beat the release of the original game. |
Junkyard Sam & Nick Bray said that no “contract” was ever signed, this was Lars Jornow from King.com who were justifying their actions to a small indie developer that might otherwise have turned down the request to copy our game. They also said that we know Scamperghost is not the most original game in the world. It’s obviously inspired by Pac-Man but we at least took it in an original direction by making it a mouse avoider with no walls.
Junkyard Sam & Nick Bray said that King.com have no respect and showed no respect for other people’s intellectual property when they made a direct, blatant clone of Scamperghost. End result for this that King.com have made trademarked “Candy” and are using their massive legal power against other small competing developers. A bit of a double-standard, eh?
So we request you not use and play Candy Crush Saga Game, by above discussion we can say that this Candy Crush Saga is not ethical. You can also look other Android app for PC. Give us your valuable comments and feedback for this blunder. Have a good day and have fun, :):)
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