I have heard of Threes only because of 2048, and by extrapolating wildly, I can only conclude that there is no factual basis to it hurting Threes' sales.
2048: The Nihilistic Face Of Free To Play
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Re: 2048: The Nihilistic Face Of Free To Play
#22Was 2048 actually inspired by threes? OP seems to be pretty sure of that.
"Created by Gabriele Cirulli. Based on 1024 by Veewo Studio and conceptually similar to Threes by Asher Vollmer." - from footer of http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/
Re: 2048: The Nihilistic Face Of Free To Play
#23The problem is that with a game like 2048 around and completely for free, chances are Threes is going to suffer as a result.
The game appears to be making and playing bizzare iterative clones of 2048 and chances are doesn't sound like very good research. People are going out of their way to play all variations of 2048, so if anything I'd expect any similarity in this situation to drive sales.
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#24Are we sure this is not a weird "funny" site? The other articles are kind of odd. Also, Threes and 2048 play very different, so I would say the are in the same genre but not a ripoff.
Re: 2048: The Nihilistic Face Of Free To Play
#25Instead of complaining about 2048, how about complaining about this: http://threesjs.com/
Re: 2048: The Nihilistic Face Of Free To Play
#26...Did he just say that he's totally fine with a big corporation stealing people's ideas to make money, but stealing ideas and making them available for free really pisses him off?
This is as simultaneously stupid, offensive, and irrelevant as if he'd said that 2048 was designed by a secret cabal of Jews to devalue the work of honest white men. Why is this on Hacker News? Are we hosting the ramblings of madmen now?
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#27Wow, just wow. I'm not exactly a youngster without life experience about what kinds of sleaze bags people can be, but I'm still amazed and shocked when I see the liberties such people allow themselves in what they say or write. That a grown, sane person has such a lack of morals to allow oneself to drop to such levels of absurdity and dishonesty to accuse people of nihilism for giving away something valuable for free to all to use and improve is deeply troubling. This is sociopathic behaviour, plain and simple.
This is about mere games, and I hate to trivialize serious social events by comparing them to such mundane things, but these kinds of drivel always remind me of McCarthy--Welch exchange in the Senate hearings[0]. "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"... What else can you say to such persons... And yet since they don't have any sense of decency or shame it doesn't bother them when you confront them with their despicable behaviour.
Re: 2048: The Nihilistic Face Of Free To Play
#28So creative exploration in programming, having fun, and open source are not only worthless, but damaging, unless monetized? George lives in a sad, sad world.
Re: 2048: The Nihilistic Face Of Free To Play
#29It's not entirely obvious how many people playing 2048 would pay to play it, accept an ad-riddled page, or would pay for another game like Threes.
I suspect a large part of the popularity stems from the easily hackable JS codebase (which is related to the explosion of 2048 variants)
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#30> What isn’t alright by me is a game that releases for free and makes no attempt to make money, This article is a good candidate for Poe's Law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law For the Onion version, I recommend the headline: "The very idea that someone would put out any content for free is appalling," writes blogger.
I really hope you're right. Still, I don't think anything about it is blatant enough to read as even an attempt at humor. It seems to me that he's either sincere or an uncommonly subtle troll.