So Disney is creating a new gamemode for Disney Infinity 3.0 and it's very clearly ripped from Splatoon in the most shittiest most unimaginative boring way ever. Also it ripped one of the recognizable stages from Splatoon, Arrowana Mall. Link to the article

Here's an unlisted video of Disneys Infinity 3.0 Splatoon-like gamemode. Clicky

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people in their legal department would have stopped them if general public can spot it so easily..can they really get away with it?

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They'll either just scrap it or they're going to try some bullshittery in court.

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I'm not sure they can get sued for this... unless there's some other form of blatant rip off (such as a direct copy of maps/weapons or coding) that I'm not aware of. I don't play Splatoon so I dunno. But Splatoon isn't the one who came up with the concept of colouring the map so you get the most area covered with your colour. It's even in older Mario Party games albeit at a much simpler level. If they could get sued for using a game concept then wouldn't the first military FPS be entitled to sue all following military FPSes? Or all those minecraft rip offs.
(edit: I know you didn't say they'd be sued but that's what I assumed you meant by the legal department stopping them. Why else would they?)

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The name of the game is literally named "Squid Wars" and the map looks like Arrowana Mall from Splatoon.

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Check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK4INf3p_dQ

Somehow, I am pretty sure I saw that before :P

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Gameplay and game modes can't be legally registered in any way - not by author rights, intellectual properties or patents.

If that were the case, Mario and Doom would have been the final games in the platformer and FPS genre, because everything that came after them uses fundamental mechanics that were "ripped off" from those.

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you make a lot of sense for the guy with that username

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They'll probably say it's a Disney-created squid-inspired paint battles. Not a rip-off at all, just an inspiration.

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That irony...can't watch the video you posted due to licensing issues.

Anyway, they could at least have changed the level design and game mode to make it look a bit different from the original :E

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Is this a Disney created level in 'playset' or a community made level in 'sandbox'?

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Disney created the level. Their official trailers for the game mode show them playing in it.

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Wow Splatoon looks like a rip off of the Battleblock theater multiplayer mode where you have to touch the blocks to color them.....or the game deBlob...seriously, who cares?
It's not like people would buy Disney Infinity only to play this map.

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Music is horrible :S

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That it is

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I see. Also I saved the link to read later.

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I might be lacking some context, but it looks a fairly explicit shout-out to me.

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Some pèople is creating a TF2 gamemode that looks more like Splatoon than this. I would respect Disney Infinity but it's a crappy idea, I mean, the first release 3 versions of the game while people that got the first one have to pay again for it, and the figures are not cheap.

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It's for rich white people /o/

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back to tumblr with you

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But I like SG ; n ;

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And Nintendo is selling millions of Amiibos wonder where they got the idea from.

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From what I've read it's just a non-profit, community-made level so there isn't anything wrong with it

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