Capcom 'saddened' by MaXplosion situation

@sticks

I wonder what the Gameloft clone will be called.

Man'splosion?

@sticks Saddened straight to the bank....

@Greendomo Yeah, thats really the only way for them to save face in this situation.

Here's another idea:

Making the game free on the App Store and acknowledging that they were "inspired" by Splosion Man would go a long way toward that "trust" they want to build up.

In business terms, this is called "Good Will" and it's hard to buy after a major FAIL like this!

@Greendomo Here's another idea on regaining fans: Change Dante back.

@ccrosby
Only way to save face, which automatically means they won't be doing that.

Capcom's starting to act like sega used to years ago before they got bought out by Sammy, bumbling through every decision they possibly could and wearing out what's left of their fanbase. If they were going to ignore the similarities between the games they should have never issued this statement to begin with. Copying the game is one thing acknowledging the mistake without fixing it just makes them look arrogant.

@Calatia

Why should the dev team be fired? The in the gaming industry the guy paying the bills and the executives call the shots, the developers would be fired if they spoke up.

@Uncle Jesse

Yeah but at least it appears that it is not a case of the same people at Capcom hearing a pitch for Splosion Man, turning it down, and then the same people creating their own version of it.

@Shafnitz

I think this sums it up best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWaP58rzn6w

@ch3burashka

Heres how it happened.

Capcom Mobile boss: I saw 'Splosion man getting a lot of good press, make a clone of it for mobile.
Dev team: Umm, isn't that going to cause some legal problem, and what kind of timetable and creative leeway do we have?
Boss: Its an indie game, they have a legal budget of approximately 1/64 of our janitor staff salary. And your leeway is you are allowed to pallet swap the characters, and change up to 5 letters in the game's name, and you should have released it already.
Dev: I hate my life.
Boss: Do that on your own time.

@Captain Planet Planeteer Power

See if Seth MacFarlane wants to make more money; see if Twisted Pixel can create a game by the name of "Meg, a man."

@Cleric
...Or did he leave because it had already been happening for sometimes before this, because frankly they've been stepping in it for quite a while.

@PN04

Capcom has never blatantly copied something this strongly

@Chichok

Don't spread misinformation.

@kingalekz

The thing here is video games are considered media/art. Plagiarism and copyright violation is a serious offense in such an industry. In fact it has all but destroyed the film industry (outside of the initial fire that was set with the creation of "blockbuster films" when the abomination that is Jaws released). This day and age there isn't much a small time developer can do legally, and that will never change. But we as gamers and the media should stand up for the little guy. The people driving innovation in an industry that has become about "manufacturing games" rather than "creating games."

@kingalekz
I get what you're saying, but if you worked on an idea for years, lets say a pair of shoes that can make you literally double jump(???). After all your hard work you pitch it to Nike saying hey I got these shoes that can make a person jump off thin air. They say "no one will want those". So you spend the time, money and effort getting it to market yourself.

When you finally do, and the shoes are a huge success, Nike comes along and steals the idea and makes the exact same shoes, cause they know (a) you don't have the money to challenge them legally and (b) their name is stronger then your's in the market. Are you saying you wouldn't be angry at all?

I don't think your considering that these are indie studio's and Capcom is playing with their livelihoods...

@Anticrawl & FrodoTBAggins

First of all, you can't steal ideas. Stealing means taking something away from you and then you don't have it anymore. Everyone can have ideas, but you can't own them. You can't own something that is not tangible. And everyone can have the same idea completely independently from each other, even if they draw inspiration from someone else who has a (very) similar idea. That doesn't mean that that someone suddenly lost this idea.
I think anyone should be able to create things that he is sure he will be successful with and should not be hindered by the fact that someone else before had a similar creation. And since everyone is equal and has equal rights it shouldn't matter if it is a gigantic company or a tiny little indie developer. Even tiny little indie developer draw their inspiration from somewhere else. And since you already brought up the mention that video games are art (which I think too), remember that art always has its basis in copying (not stealing!). Nothing is ever new.
And regarding the notion that the film industry is destroyed or dying: That's bullshit. How can that be when there are today more movies produced than ever before? How come that the MPAA is reporting a new box office record every year?
tl;dr Jaws is an awesome movie

@kingalekz There's a reason we have a crime called plagiarism, you know. Imitation is not at all the same thing as actively gathering information on a game, refusing to pay them for it, and then using said information. And whatever else Capcom says, I believe it is a single corporate entity and so could be held liable for that.
On the other hand I'm hardly a copyright attourney, so I could very well be wrong.