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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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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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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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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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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