I don’t know how else you’d interpret the “we’re going to have our lawyers look into it” statement.
I think he implicitly means is anyone who doesn’t have a financial stake in the legality of it questioning the legality of it.
I interpret it as “we’re going to pay an IP lawyer many hundreds of dollars an hour to educate us on how ideas can’t be copyrighted and competitors are allowed to mention your trademarks as comparative products.”
And stole game code from NCSoft for Lineage 3. Not exactly relevant, but there’s a bit of irony there.
Bluehole comes off as overly whiny here.
… people understands that every ‘standard’ game mode that we take for granted like DM, TDM, CTF, Domination, Last Man Standing, Payload, King of the Hill… at some point there weren’t standard. Someone, at some point, created them for the first time, and there was one game that was the first one in implementing them.
I don’t know how this is different.
Or all the MOBA games, that ‘copied’ the entire idea from the original DOTA.
It’s a hard thing to deliberately replicate jank.
What’s funny is that it shows (if it wasn’t obviously clear) Fortnite is of those 100% follow-the-leader sort of games that exists purely to hit a certain kind of game in a certain market; nobody was inspired to make Fortnite, this was a 9to5 game if there ever was one. This pivot toward PUBG means they just predicted wrong what sort of game was going to take off.
Funny thing is that I’ve been enjoying fortnite more than any other game since it hit early release. Glad everyone has their own taste, and that this one matches up with mine. Haven’t played the PUBG part yet, and don’t really plan to.
For what it’s worth, I think PUBG looks fun, but a bit… dry. I don’t think it needs skill trees, classes, unlockables and all that jazz, sometimes it’s better to keep things pure, but isn’t it the same crappy building everywhere? It still somehow managed to fit microtransactions/loot crates/whatever in there, though.
I’d be curious how building works in Fortnite Battle Royale. If anything, it seems to me like it would encourage camping, which is exactly what you’re trying to prevent in a battle royale game.
Boo-fucking-hoo everything successful in gaming gets cloned - genres, mechanics all of it.
The structures break really quite easily in Fortnite - so as much as they offer protection, it takes some time to build them - building them is noisy - and they can be “shot down/out”
It could be helpful to build a little bit of cover to “get away” I’ve also seen some people build a bunker… those that “bunker in” tend to not last long though.