EA Demanded Plagiarized Zynga the Sims Social Game

In July, Zynga launched a new game titled "The Ville" which is a life-simulation game where you create an avatar, build homes and communicating with others. But this game turned out to be problematic, because Electronic Arts claimed that Zynga game mimics the idea of ​​The Sims Electronic Arts and Social Zynga's accused of breaking the patent. EA was too much in common the idea, design, and gameplay of The Sims Social their products with proprietary products Zynga, The Ville.

Lucy Bradshaw, GM of EA's Maxis label says that the similarity is beyond all resemblance, Zynga design options, animations, visual settings and characters movements and actions are directly lifted from The Sims Social. "The equation is very clear to even the game is very difficult to distinguish," said Lucy Bradshaw.

But Zynga refused to say that they imitate products belonging to Electronic Arts. they even regretted Electronic Arts step that brought them to the table of the law. Zynga was Electronic Arts does not know the basic principles of copyright games. He said that EA is not the first company to sue them and accuse the demands of this EA is a bunch of nonsense.

Zynga has a bad image as another copycat game. Zynga has some game that proved to be the imitation game such as The Farms, Mafia Wars, Blast Ruby and Pioneer Trail. Zynga makes the game based on Farm Town, Mob Wars, Bejeweled, Oregon Trail and many others.

The Ville Screenshot

The Sims Social Screenshot