Candy Crush Saga settles dispute with CandySwipe “amicably”

Hey, write me a fat check and you can steal my intellectual property all day and I'll tell the whole world I'm a huge asshole who made it all up. Money talks.

Well at least that didn't sound like he got paid a lot of money to pretend that everything is suddenly ok, and that they (King) had planned to use the name "Candy Crush" before his game was realeased.

I mean, it all sounds perfectly reasonable. Yep. Nothing to see here.

This almost sounds like a Flying Circus skit.

Seriously why do I need to hear a british accent?

@spacecadet25 @Thanatos2k What do you mean "like wanking"? Is that like jerking?

That's right, you f*cker! Stay away from my viking game or the only thing crushed here will be your skull!

Who cares, Both games suck.

People should stop playing these crappy games.

Awwwwww look: they're friends!

Now they can bug each other incessantly for lives.

did you know that theres only 171'000 words in the Oxford dictionary?

you might think thats a lot to trademark...but it really isnt.

theres 470'000 movies on the planet. Sure 171'000 words is a lot to move around and you can play around with many variations of those 171'000 words, but if we keep trademarking stuff like this, its going to be a real issue in 500 years time. Naming stuff is almost going to be impossible. All of your precious laws we create now (which most laws are just stupid and most laws we shouldnt even be taking seriously, like marajuana laws), is going to massively affect people many years after we are gone.

Think I can trademark the alphabet?

@Tigerbite2 @Jarten And with a gag order not to discuss the settlement. The usual legal terms, pathetically.

@spacecadet25 @Thanatos2k That we need to poison this company and watch it die in it's own blood and mucus in front of it's whole community. Spoiler if you don't watch good tv or read books older than a decade

I'm not insinuating anything, but the way this all ended sounds like something that involves blackmail. After fighting for a whole year without having any proof of evidence from them about the rights he suddenly says "I have learned that they picked the CANDY CRUSH name before I released my game and that they were never trying to take my game away." Well if this is true why didn't they pull it out and reveal it before wasting a whole years worth of people's time and money? Just saying.

So am I screwed? I've been working on a game with a main character named "Swipe" who breaks up candy. I was going to call it "Saga of Swipe: The Candy Crusher." Do I have to like totally scrap that game now?

I am glad I have not give this King my money and I never will.

Someone needs to pull a Joffrey on this "King"

King paid him. Chaching!

Well, isn't that nice? Everyone's getting along and are no longer fighting over something which is mind-bogglingly bizarre. To make it even better, this is announced during the Easter holiday, when people are stuffing their faces with candy and most probably crushing said candy.

Lawyers everywhere are mad.

i have 1 question

What the fck is wrong with law makers?

cant they see that this is seriously bullsht, being able to trademark words? Or are these companies paying the lawmakers so much cash to write terrible laws that the lawyers are ruining society because of bribes?

Thus they dont seem to give a sht if they ruin society for the future generation long after we are gone, because theyll all be dead anyway.

I couldnt care less if 10 games had the word blade in them. Everyone should have to right to name anything they want ANYTHING they choose. If 20 games, 14 chocolate bars and 15 movies and 35 cartoons are called blade. Oh well, big deal. May the best Blade win. couldnt care less if its confusing for people.

Some day every word will be trademarked and people have to get names to their games and movies by randomly hitting the keyboard. I can't wait to play Agöibhdvbrf in 5 years.