∞ Threes: Letter to the Rip-offs
I only played a few times of the Rip-offs, however, I’m still playing Threes. I honor and admire it’s simplicity and replayability[1]. They often don’t come together, when they do, it must take a fair amount of work. It’s sad that not everyone could realize that:
We want to celebrate iteration on our ideas and ideas in general. It’s great. 2048 is a simpler, easier form of Threes that is worth investigation, but piling on top of us right when the majority of Threes players haven’t had time to understand all we’ve done with our game’s system and why we took 14 months to make it, well… that makes us sad.
On Rip-offs: with recent phenomena like Flappy Bird, I don’t know what the solution is. Moreover, like Marco said, I think there is really no solution to this. Accept it, ignore it, then make more dents in the game industry.