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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kingskin" data-source="post: 4384513" data-attributes="member: 68607">I can't agree with this at all. Pretty much every industries runs on finding an idea that works and putting your brand on it. Look at the computer games industry: DoomSim City/CivCommand & ConquerStreet Fighter 2 Clones of the above pretty much account for about 90% of what's out there and have done for the last 10 years or so. You're talking about (presumably) smart businessmen turning a hobby industry into something that's now threatening Hollywood in terms of revenue by doing exactly what you've complained about.I'm not arguing that having a hundred different flavours of the same FPS is good for the consumer, but I've never claimed that about the OGL/STL/GSL/STD either.Yes, it's great when someone comes up with a new way of doing things and tries out something completely new, but it's a risky business and the smart money knows it's safer to rip off something popular. As another example; look at how many shaky-handcam films have come out since Cloverfield. When I caught that at the cinema there were trailers for 2 or 3 films that had ripped of that exact premise. OK, Blair Witch/Last Broadcast had already been there but the point still stands.</blockquote>