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		zck on Dec 31, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Game Over: Zynga Shuts Down PetVille And 10 Other ... No; Kingdom of Loathing is run by Asymmetric Publications (http://asymmetric.net/), which is only a few people: http://asymmetric.net/people.html . And if Zynga didn't steal game mechanics or the business model from KoL, what did they take? While KoL was an early browser-based game, it certainly wasn't the first (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiplayer_browser_ga...).

Tloewald on Dec 31, 2012 [–]

Browser is nothing to do with it. KoL's mechanics are exactly those of Mafia Wars and the like (including both the core concept of "energy" and the business model around it).

newobj on Dec 31, 2012 | [–]

And those mechanics are exactly like dozens of BBS door games from the 80s and 90s, so...

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