![]() ![]() "We're flattered by the fact that others in the industry are commenting on Edgeworld," Chou continued. ![]() Rather than simply copying Backyard Monsters, Chou said the Kabam team expanded on four of its own previous strategy titles in making Edgeworld, and drew inspiration from "movies, pop culture, science fiction, literature, history and, most importantly, from our players." Harbin goes on to point out similarities between Kabam's Kingdoms of Camelot and fantasy RTS Evony as further evidence that the company "is wasting talent and resources on cloning games that already exist."įor his part, Kabam CEO Kevin Chou said Edgeworld "represents a new step in the continuum of massively multiplayer social games" and "features a host of new gameplay mechanics to further entertain and engage our core gamers." "It's not detrimental to Kixeye in the short term, but this kind of practice is bad for all of us in the gaming industry - it will eventually sour users and it certainly does the opposite of proving that Facebook can be a legitimate gaming platform." "There is no question that the engineers of EdgeWorld had Backyard Monsters open in one window while they coded the copy in another," Kixeye CEO Will Harbin said in the statement. "At Kixeye, we believe that constant improvement and creative new ideas are essential for moving social gaming forward, and condemn any and all developers that look to simply copy the hard work of others," the company said in a statement. The company says Kabam of trying to latch on to this success with Edgeworld, which recently launched in beta and has already found over 230,000 monthly users on Facebook. Kixeye claims 12 million lifetime installs for its Backyard Monsters strategy title, which currently has over 3.6 million monthly players on Facebook. ![]() Social gaming developer Kixeye is publicly accusing competitor Kabam of copying its popular Backyard Monsters title in designing its new release Edgeworld, a claim Kabam strongly denies. ![]()
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