I thought it was clear but I’ll elaborate. You are berating companies for protecting their IP by implying that they shouldn’t be so hard on the ‘little people’ who use their material without consent because it is those same ‘little people’ who helped make the companies as successful as they are. I am drawing a parallel and saying that if your own project ‘Out Reach’ ever became a huge hit and people stole your work and made unauthorized projects using your IP, that you would do the exact same thing as these companies which is pursue legal action to protect your work. Wouldn’t you?
So what? Where did you get the idea that you can copyright, trademark or franchise a genre? Ubisoft covered games about Assassins. Does that somehow prevent anyone from making other games about Assassins? Capcom covered zombies pretty well. Did they somehow corner the zombie game market and now no other zombie games can ever be made again? You somehow equate general game ideas to specific IP.
No, we as indies won’t ever be able to make a game about zombies caused by a T-Virus outbreak and call it ‘Resident Evil’ but does that mean that we can’t make zombie games? Of course not.
News flash man. No idea is truly unique. Every game in some way incorporates ideas from another game. The Last Of Us? Great game experience but used the same basic gameplay principles of Tenchu, Metal Gear and a crapload of other titles that came before it. See what I mean?
What is your point exactly? That because they can produce more games at a faster rate than indies, that indie development is doomed because these companies will have somehow taken all the great ideas first? Ridiculous.
Trademarking the word ‘Candy’ is something entirely different from a game idea.
What an absolutely ridiculous statement. More and more software, tools and tech are being released that allows us indies more power and control than ever before. It allows independant developers to create games that can compete with many triple A titles and it is only going to get easier. The indie scene is growing, not shrinking. I don’t know where you get the idea that indie development will be an ‘afterthought’ in the future.