Activision and the Wii

[famousringo]

The Ghost of RubangB said:

famousringo said:
I hate Activision for Science Papa. Not because it's a bad game or it's casual, because I have no idea what it plays like. I hate it for being a shameless attempt to capitalize on Cooking Mama, which is somebody else's star IP. That's the kind of lame copycat behavior I expect from tiny publishers struggling to survive in the budget market, not the largest third party publisher in the world.

Majesco's just a little guy, make your own damn IP and stop trying to take his lunch money.

Yeah that was just really embarrassing.  Did you see Majesco's response to that?

Yeah, something about Cooking Mama being glad that she's out of that abusive relationship and back to being a strong, independant woman or some such. The kind of cheeky humour you have to show when a huge corporation with a much bigger legal team than yours starts stealing your ideas.

These publishers need to learn to respect the expanded audience. You can't just throw a smiling mascot on the cover and 'party' in the title and expect free money to roll in the door. There's some kind of alchemy to making hit games like Carnival Games, Cooking Mama, and Just Dance. Majesco themselves found out with their massively failed Go Play series.