Startup copies another game exactly down to the tutorial and makes money... CONGRATS, YAY, SO IMPRESSIVE
Zynga copies another game exactly down to the tutorial and makes money... LAWSUIT OMG HATE HATE HATE
You people are such hypocrites
Zynga copies another game exactly down to the tutorial and makes money... LAWSUIT OMG HATE HATE HATE
You people are such hypocrites
So it's a pretty large mis-representation to say they copied another game, as they were on the team who built said game (granted, the writer doesn't do a very good job of conveying that). MUCH different than cloning a competitor.
How did you so quickly draw a bead on HN, and manage to decipher what the rest of the audience thought about it?
For my part... I think these guys are simply Zynga without the rumours of an oppressive workplace. They have 60 employees, and a business model identical to many others. I'm not sure what if anything makes them into a startup.
HN is not 1 grand hive-mind with everyone sharing the same opinion.