you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 4 points 1 week ago (10 children)

What a bizarre thing. Why does this even matter?

If someone makes a bad clone of someone else's game concept will they have succeeded in anything? Shitty games are shitty games.

If someone makes a good clone of someone else's game concept they have beaten them to the market and that's how capitalism works.

If you don't like that, don't complain about AI. Complain about capitalism!

  • source
  • hideshow 10 child comments
  • [–] 59 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    The problem is that the original game gets buried. There are a million Needle in a Haystack games now and it is difficult to find the original.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Sucks for the consumer that need to filter through trash or worse accidentally buys the wrong game

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Accidentally buying the wrong game would actually fall under a different area of law: Fraud and possibly trademark infringement. Though, you can't trademark (or even copyright) gameplay/mechanics...

    In 1879(!) Baker v. Selden, the Supreme Court ruled that copyright protects only the expression of ideas (the text, illustrations, and phrasing), not the underlying ideas, systems, methods, or processes. This is important. The same rule applies to patents: They only cover the implementation of ideas, not the ideas themselves. Endless case law reaffirms this.

    WHICH IS WHY SOFTWARE PATENTS SHOULD NOT EXIST.

    I know it's unrelated, just wanted to throw it out there 😀

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments