Capcom 'Saddened' By Game Plagiarism Controversy 163
Capcom's recent release of action platformer Maxsplosion for the iPhone caused indie developer Twisted Pixel to call Capcom out for copying the concept from their successful Xbox Live game 'Splosion Man. Twisted Pixel said they had no plans for legal action, since they were "too small to take on a company like Capcom." The indie studio had even pitched the game to Capcom for publishing at one point, but were declined. Now, Capcom has released a statement denying that Maxsplosion's development team had any knowledge of the meetings and saying, "MaXplosion was developed independently by Capcom Mobile. Nonetheless, we are saddened by this situation and hope to rebuild the trust of our fans and friends in the gaming community."
Re:"Controversey"? (Score:4, Informative)
Clearly not the same.
Heck, I can't see any [ecetia.com] similarities at all [apple.com].
As if they don't lose that argument already at the name.
Dont need a lawsuit (Score:1, Informative)
Bad publicity for Capcom and good publicity for Twisted pixel.
Capcom being a huge established studio with multiple franchises definitely does not need the bad publicity but for a small indie studio any publicity is good publicity.
Re:Isn't that legal? (Score:4, Informative)
You're free to write a story about a wizarding school somewhere in the remote parts of the UK, you're fine writing a story involving said wizarding students fighting against some great evil, you're on shakey ground when the heroic lightning-bolt scarred Harry Motter and his two friends (one poor, the other both a girl and smart) battle the forces of wizardy prejudice, and you're probably going bankrupt if you go ahead and skip the pretense. It's all a matter of degree really.
Yes, I meant precisely what I wrote. (Score:2, Informative)
Hi. OP here. no, I meant precisely that executives have admitted to me that this approach is taught in business schools. Which should be no great surprise since it's none too far a stretch from the philosophies of people like Alfred P. Sloane who organized and endowed many of these schools in the first place.
http://streetcarstospaceships.typepad.com/s2s/2008/12/i-dont-want-to-live-in-a-society-run-by-a-bunch-of-generals.html
Iacocca's autobiography, oddly enough, goes into quite a bit of detail about this. And the Harvard Business School just sponsored the publishing of a business philosophy book that does an impressive job of pretending not to have noticed the systemic issues involved at all.
Look into the schools. The ivies. University of Chicago. Stanford. From what I can tell Yale's SOM is a bit different but not all that much.
This sh*t is canon now. They call it things like "a statutory obligation to maximize shareholder value" and various other mahooah but it adds up to profit for executives being the value to maximize with all else to be managed as annoyances, intrusions, and/or crops to be harvested and resources to be liquidated and stripped of value as quickly as possible.
Ayn Rand's disciples have merged with Laffer's mock scientists, media manipulation, and accumulated robber baron techniques to create a staggeringly powerful but short-sighted looter culture that is, quite literally, in danger of taking over and destroying the world. Ask the folks in Brisbane if I'm exaggerating.
Re:This could get complicated (Score:5, Informative)
Silence --- Thankful no one seems to have noticed "Phew we seem to have got away with that, everyone is blaming BP"
as in the Gulf Oil Spill :
Hyundai - Built the Deepwater Horizon
Transocean - Owned the Deepwater Horizon
Halliburton - Contractors doing the work, and Maintaining the Rig
Anadarko, MOEX - Co-Operators of the field and Rig
Re:This could get complicated (Score:4, Informative)
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