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Protestors Rally Against 'Candy Crush Saga' Developer with Deluge of Candy-Themed Games

I don't give a whip about the trademark issue, but anything that gives this company major grief is a good thing and karmic payback for all the times they javajacked my iPhone to take me from a news site to the candy crush saga page in the App Store.
 
mantan said:
So if Samsung stated your first paragraph and substituted 'Apple and Cook' for 'Candy Crush and King' would you feel the same way?.....just sayin'

Not saying you're right or wrong...but I see a lot hypocrisy on this board....
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Just curious if you could elaborate a little more.... I can't understand your post. The guy you quoted said that:
1) All apps eventually get cloned
2) The hype of the game candy crush will eventually die down
3) Temple run has many variations, that have not been taken down
4) Candy Crush is identical to Bejeweled, with candy substituted for jewels.

Which of those points do you think are hypocritical?

p.s. I agree with what i think your point is. But I read (maybe incorrectly) that his point was the same, just stated a little differently.
 
I have a name idea for an app called Sweets Smash Legends. If any dev wants the name, I give you permission to take it.
 

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I'd love to see some big-name-developers temporarily change the name of their games. Probably wouldn't happen though.

CandyCraft: Pocket Edition.
 
Let's see. The company that produces an inexplicably popular low-rent knock-off of Bejewelled wants everyone else to stop copying them?

Hahahahahahaha... right. 🙄
 
Since in the US its completely legal to mention another company in advertising reference it should not matter if I make an app with candy in it but instead make a none game app named candy crush sucks than right? 🙂
 
mantan said:
So if Samsung stated your first paragraph and substituted 'Apple and Cook' for 'Candy Crush and King' would you feel the same way?.....just sayin'

Not saying you're right or wrong...but I see a lot hypocrisy on this board....
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I'm saying Apple shouldn't play favorites in protecting certain companies. If they are going to enforce something, please protect the other developers as well. It seems only rich companies get attention.

Samsung isn't the only company that is copying off of Apple, many others are too. Although blatant copying is wrong, companies having a supreme power may hinder competition and future development. I try to stay away from patent and technological disputes.
 
Todd B. said:
Protesters? More like whiny, self-righteous kids who have way too much time on their hands or terrible app makers trying to get fifteen minutes of fame by duping people into thinking their app is the real one.
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I'm going to assume you're the CEO of King.com, because a normal person wouldn't write something so brain-dead. That being the case, Mr. CEO Person, let me tell you something: you flat-out lied when you claimed you were "not trying to control the world’s use" of words, given your response to The Banner Saga, which is a completely legit title and no relation to you in any way, nor would anyone ever assume so, particularly since it predated this whole nonsense.

It's OK to trademark "Candy Crush Saga". It is not OK to trademark "Candy" or "Saga", it's blindingly obvious that doing so is wrong, and I hope you get hit with massive legal fees when your trademarks are invalidated, which they inevitably will be. (See the Edge case.) Instead of dragging this out and behaving like colossal jerks, just do the right thing and desist now. Thank you.

--Eric
 
Unggoy Murderer said:
Of all games out there, Candy Crush is the one I hate the most. I even hate the people who play it. And I REALLY hate the people who play it on my train home from work with their sound at 100%.
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Usually I wouldn't agree with something like this that categorically labels an entire group of people, but it's true. I feel like I see the biggest morons playing this game. They sit there in absolute stupor—their beady eyes glued to the screen—volume cranked to the max. It's ridiculous.

You know what else you should hate? The websites that, once loaded, open the App Store to Candy Crush to try to get you to download it. Auto loading the App Store should be blocked by default in Safari. It's so fracking annoying.

This reminds me of the guy a few years ago who would sue every company that used the word "Edge" in their game. I remember some games were removed from the App Store back then. Things didn't go well for him once he battled EA for Mirror's Edge. That's probably the first and last time I'll ever root for EA—especially for their legal team. The App Store games were restored and everything was fine. King should study the history here. It won't end well for them. If I recall, I even think some developers were rallying by putting Edge in the name of their games. History repeats itself!
 
cmwade77 said:
Nope, that's trademarked already....it's a candy bar that is almost never available anywhere, but still trademarked.
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We still have them in the midwest. Even have them in our vending machines here at work. One of my all time favorites, glad it came back.
 
MacRumors said:
King, the developer behind mega-hit Candy Crush Saga, was recently awarded a UK trademark on the term "candy" for use in video games and is awaiting approval on a similar trademark in the United States. With Apple in some cases assisting King in targeting apps with "candy" in their names, developers unhappy with King's IP strategy have responded with a protest that is seeking to flood the iOS App Store with candy-themed games, according to reports
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Sweet revenge! 😀
 
It's not even a particularly original game, similar ones have existed for years, yet they think they deserve special protection for individual, common words? I could understand trademarking "Candy Crush" in addition to "Candy Crush Saga", but this is just preposterous, and I'm deeply ashamed that the UK has given them a trademark for something so obviously foolish.

Their attempt to pursue legal action over the word "saga" says everything that needs to be said about their well-meaning intentions over this.
 
mantan said:
So if Samsung stated your first paragraph and substituted 'Apple and Cook' for 'Candy Crush and King' would you feel the same way?.....just sayin'

Not saying you're right or wrong...but I see a lot hypocrisy on this board....
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Difference is brand strength. Apple has a lot of it so it's worth protecting

Meanwhile Candy Crush, Ville games, With Friends games, etc are being treated as brands when they're really fads in a commodity market
 
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