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Originally Posted by Ramihyn
No argueing about it - some "clones" went too far with "borrowing" things.
However IMHO if a commercial game has trouble competing with people doing "clones" in their sparetime, then there isnt only something wrong with the clones...
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In the real world I would say you are right that a commerical game shouldnt have trouble competing BUT in cyberspace its not really unusual. We are still in a transitional stage of the internet and this is where the trouble lies. the mahority of net users are from a pre transitition period of the net where everything was free. This has instilled a deep belief that everything on the net should be free as we saw when PA went p2p with people refusing to pay. Even those from the transitition period still have the option of getting most services free and while are generaly more inclined to pay for things than those old school but its not at the stage yet where people will pay for receiving a 'superior' service. As such these free clones will always be attractive, atleast until net users are more used to paying for things