Draw Something Is A Total Ripoff Of Depict

Posted on Friday, March 23 @ 12:39:23 Eastern by Daniel Bischoff

Everyone's talking about Draw Something. Seriously, where did this game come from? Almost overnight, Draw Something sparked up a ton of interest and developers OMGPOP got picked up by Zynga for $200 million.

In actuality, Draw Something is another shameless iOS ripoff, of another iOS ripoff that was also ripped off by another iOS game, all of which is a rip off of fucking Pictionary, the game you've been playing when relatives are over for years.

Here's Draw Something: a game where you send Pictionary-esque drawings to another person so they can guess what you've drawn with a Scrabble-like selection of letters.

Here's Mini Painters: a game where you painted images so that five other people would guess what you drew. Earn points by quickly drawing something the other players can guess. Earn even more points by being the first to correctly guess the drawn word.

Here's Depict: a game where you do exactly what I described above... EXACTLY WHAT I DESCRIBED ABOVE.

Here's Pictionary: a game you've had in your closet for OVER 25 YEARS. Fucking Pictionary.

To Zynga: How were these people worth $200 million to you? They had NOT A SINGLE ORIGINAL IDEA. Sending the puzzle back and forth is just like Words with Friends. The drawing is just like... Pictionary. Monetizing it with ads in the free version is just like every other iOS game. Offering coins up for people to buy other stuff in the game is just like every other freemium game!

Your investment will never pay off because they didn't have an original idea. They ripped something off heinously. Of course... that seems to be fitting with your corporate culture. You two were meant for each other.

Related Games: Draw Something, Pictionary, Pictionary

Tags: ios, Draw Something

Comments

WILLS_COOL_MODE
Joined: Oct 2010

Posted: Mar 23rd, 2012 at 1:03 pm
I lost my **** at "Here's Pictionary".

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whytenoiz
Joined: Feb 2011

Posted: Mar 23rd, 2012 at 1:26 pm
The people that come out with the ideas that capture the younger audience, regardless of whether they are original or not, will always make money. You make extremely good points, but all it takes is one teenager to find something mindless like this, spread it to all their friends, and then suddenly it becomes viral. I am a teacher and I work with a over a hundred 15-17 year olds, and they are obsessed with this game. I actually used the Pictionary example you used, but they don't care. One kid somewhere thought it was trendy and then that's it. They got into it, followed by the friends, grandparents, whatever. What's even better is a lot of these kids that get into this can't relate to these ideas' origins. In summary, we can slam our faces into the wall all we want on this one, regardless of the stupidity of it all, its just always going to be a fact. Someone quick, come up with a Connect Four App called "Four in a Line" or some stupid s*** like that.

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WILLS_COOL_MODE
Joined: Oct 2010

Posted: Mar 23rd, 2012 at 1:37 pm
I was actually recently at an arcade with some friends and there were a TON of people playing this giant digital Connect Four game except it was called something different. I accidentally said pretty loudly "How much of a loser do you have to be to come to an arcade to play Connect Four?" and was instantly super embarrassed.

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Mar 23rd, 2012 at 2:11 pm
I guess the reasoning behind writing this article is to show that the iOS market really does NOTHING for this industry. Nothing. There are no new ideas, and the ideas that are new are bled to death. And then the next one comes along and that one is bled to death too.

Also, ****ing Zynga shenanigans.

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Chunibrow
Joined: Mar 2010

Posted: Mar 23rd, 2012 at 7:21 pm
Your comment implies this game is not good or just hype, when actually it is really fun. Generally things have to have some kind of appeal to be popular, and original or not this game is great

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Jonathan_Leack
Joined: Jan 2012

Posted: Mar 23rd, 2012 at 3:16 pm
This game is a huge ripoff but myself and four of the people I know at school are addicted to it. We've done over 200+ rounds together, lol.

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Chunibrow
Joined: Mar 2010

Posted: Mar 23rd, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Yes unfortunately originality does not always equal money and sometimes a ripoff does. The reason this is good for consumers is that an idea will be continually refined by multiple sources until the most enjoyable version is eventually produced

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drathbone
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Mar 23rd, 2012 at 7:33 pm
What Chunibrow said. It's called innovation folks. Seriously.

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