Zynga made its name by ripping off other creators IP.
When it was small, it got away with this, it was under the radar.
Now it is huge and bloated, if captain clown here wants to return to what made the company great, they will be mired in copyright law suits from here until the end of time.
agree with both sides about used games. Yes, it is totally wrong for a publisher to use copyright for something it was never intended for, to erode basic consumer trading laws. One law is clearly abusing another here.
On the other hand, large game retail chains ARE robbing everybody blind. The worst business practice of all, is offering a trade in price at less than 50% for a new release, and then riding on the coat tails of the releases advertising to grab a lot of juicy profit from reselling that game at $5 less than full retail.
The solution is in 2 parts.
Consumers, DO NOT buy a second hand game 1 week after game release, it is doing as much damage to the industry as piracy.
Gamer makers, MAKE a game that nobody wants to trade in after 48 hours, you are your own worst enemy here.
@d3nR you wont see that, the french canadian devs hate the brits with a passion. AC3 first, then AC4 goes from killing spaniards to killing brits, then the new comic spin off, killing brits in india.
footnote, any nation without historical and ugly skeletons in it's closet feel free to say the UK deserves it.
nice to see Sony go back to their roots. The PS1 was a gift to game devs needing a hand getting into the industry. Nintendo were so arrogant dealing with game makers and Sony would happily send out dev kits to anyone with money to pay for them.
The strategy was quite simple; let the market flood with games and the quality will bubble to the surface. And boy did it work. Apple are doing the same thing right now with iOS.
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