As for Disney ripping off Nintendo's Splatoon thing, well... that's just how vidja gaem companies roll these days. Every time there's something that is even remotely "new and innovative" in video games, you'll have a million johnnies-come-lately trying to cash in on it, running it into the ground and making it seem banal, sooner rather than later.
See also: all the millions of copycat games out there these days with "crafting" and "mining" and "minecrafting" in them. Hell, for that matter, even Minecraft itself was simply a better-done imitation of Infiniminer, as we already know and as Notch freely admits. Not all "rip-offs" are bad things, sure... but... most of them are. Most of them are indeed just blatant, cash-grab, poorly made clones of whatever is popular at the time.
Which is, of course, once again, yet another reason why the video game industry is spiraling down the toilet. It's just that this particular reason has been around for as long as there has been a video game industry (or, hell, for as long as there has been industry, period).
Why, yes, I am indeed feeling particularly jaded and cynical today. ¬_¬
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Date: 2015-09-13 05:04 pm (UTC)See also: all the millions of copycat games out there these days with "crafting" and "mining" and "minecrafting" in them. Hell, for that matter, even Minecraft itself was simply a better-done imitation of Infiniminer, as we already know and as Notch freely admits. Not all "rip-offs" are bad things, sure... but... most of them are. Most of them are indeed just blatant, cash-grab, poorly made clones of whatever is popular at the time.
Which is, of course, once again, yet another reason why the video game industry is spiraling down the toilet. It's just that this particular reason has been around for as long as there has been a video game industry (or, hell, for as long as there has been industry, period).
Why, yes, I am indeed feeling particularly jaded and cynical today. ¬_¬