Zynga sleept concurrent Vostu voor de rechter

De sociale gameontwikkelaar Zynga heeft besloten om hun Braziliaanse concurrent Vostu voor de rechter te slepen. Volgens Zynga houdt Vostu zich niet aan de regels van het Copyright. Dit is op zich opvallend te noemen aangezien Zynga zelf vaak beschuldigd is van het schaamteloos kopiëren van spellen.

Let’s be clear – it is one thing to be inspired by Zynga games, but it is entirely different to copy all of our key product features, product strategy, branding, mission statement and employee benefits lock, stock and barrel. … Blatant infringement of our creative works is not an acceptable business strategy – it is a violation of the law.”In CityVille, the Zynga developers forgot to add the requirement that Community Buildings be connected to a road in order to function within the game – a requirement for all other buildings in the game.

Gameontwikkelaar Vostu is het hier duidelijk niet mee eens, aangezien zij ontkennen spellen van Zynga gekopieerd te hebben op Facebook.

The game was released without that requirement, and the bug was never fixed in Zynga’s game. Vostu’s MegaCity replicated this. Zynga has been accused of copying so many games that they’ve sadly lost the ability to recognize games like ours that are chock full of original content and have been independently created,” a Vostu statement responded.

Vostu has 500 brilliant employees working night and day making hand drawings and writing proprietary code for online games that our 35 million users worldwide enjoy. Zynga’s anti-competitive effort to bully us with a frivolous lawsuit – especially when we have some of the same key investors – is pathetic. While Zynga plays games with the legal process we will continue focusing on using our substantial resources to create games that entertain our customers.”

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