All Quiet Roads lawsuit

[Luminy]

Is it true that you guys are suing the creator of AQR? That's disgusting, she's just a solo developer who made a game with a similar concept and significantly different execution. You should be ashamed of yourselves for bullying and threatening someone like that.

[Chook Fowler]

Thanks for pointing me in the direction of AQR. Mini Metro was boring me to tears. Finally something new to play. Cheers mate.

[Wai]

AQR does have some surface similarities but looks aren't everything. I may well purchase this later. For now, I only play Mini Metro when I am very, very bored with only a few minutes to kill. MM is not a game I could honestly recommend. The developers need to fix the issues - such as the pause system which is so necessary and so unforgivably cludgy; and don't get me started on the vehicle "grab" option.

[Chook Fowler]

If you're going to get it you better make it quick. She's pulling it from the store at the end of April.

[Tsubame ⭐]

Yes, there is a lawsuit against AQR, the very reason why the latter will be removed off the shelves by the end of the month.

Capitalism at its finest, but then again, that could have prevented with some layout changes in the first place. Maybe building icons or letters in place of geometrical shapes, and make the artwork so that it does less resemble MM's artwork style. Oh well, too late for that.

[rhea]

It’s a shame. Especially if you compare the SteamDB charts. Just stick to the facts, Mini Motorways got max 10.000 players, today around 400, Mini Metro max 2000, today 174. And All Quiet Roads got max 48 player and today 14 players. Yeah, serious competition, urgh.
https://steamdb.info/app/1127500/charts/
https://steamdb.info/app/287980/charts/
https://steamdb.info/app/1832050/charts/

Anyway, design choices in minimalistic games are ALWAYS very similar. You can’t trademark that in my opinion. And please don’t get me wrong, Mini Metro is definitely a good game (before anyone wonders, I played it on another account), but there are also a lot of other programming-like games that exactly use the same interface and look, it’s just based on the GENRE (just look at Shapez, the Velone controversy etc.). Long story short, yeah, obviously it’s tragically over for AQR, because this tiny dev got no money or energy to fight this accusation, but it leaves me very sad nevertheless. And I’m definitely gonna think twice before buying anything from DPC again.

[luckz]

Originally posted by Tsubame ⭐:

Yes, there is a lawsuit against AQR, the very reason why the latter will be removed off the shelves by the end of the month.

Is there an (actual) source for that?

[mellamoger]

Originally posted by luckz:

Originally posted by Tsubame ⭐:

Yes, there is a lawsuit against AQR, the very reason why the latter will be removed off the shelves by the end of the month.

Is there an (actual) source for that?

Not literally; dev stated that there is a lawsuit, but didn't tell who was behind it. However, it's quite crystal clear that it's dinopolo club (who else if not them, they're the only ones with a successful and similar concept game).

Very disgusting stuff. I purchased AQR recently and I'm enjoying it a lot; despite not being as pretty as MM, it's a really good game (better than MM imho), and if anyone wanna try it I encourage you to buy it because it will disappear from steam in next weeks (yes, you can thank dino for that).

[Wai]

Originally posted by mellamoger:

Originally posted by luckz:

Is there an (actual) source for that?

Not literally; dev stated that there is a lawsuit, but didn't tell who was behind it. However, it's quite crystal clear that it's dinopolo club (who else if not them, they're the only ones with a successful and similar concept game).

Very disgusting stuff. I purchased AQR recently and I'm enjoying it a lot; despite not being as pretty as MM, it's a really good game (better than MM imho), and if anyone wanna try it I encourage you to buy it because it will disappear from steam in next weeks (yes, you can thank dino for that).

Even more so because MM had several irritating problems, like the vanishing pause facility (just one example) several years ago and it still has the same problems today, Disgusting.

[Tsubame ⭐]

AQR is indeed a very interesting game. Plays rather differently too, so besides visuals being similar, it is a very different game.

But AQR's team is much smaller, and lawsuits can be expensive...

AQR indeed is a very nice game, one whose gameplay I actually prefer over either of the MM. Too bad it has to end this way. For those interested, get it before is gone!

[Блудливый орк]

Capitalists

[Jray]

Devs have a history of taking legal action against other indie devs so it's believable.

[Paparazzi]

>muh capitalism
Delete your Steam account so you're not participating in this terrible, broken system, then.

Originally posted by Luminy♡:

Is it true that you guys are suing the creator of AQR? That's disgusting, she's just a solo developer who made a game with a similar concept and significantly different execution. You should be ashamed of yourselves for bullying and threatening someone like that.

The world doesn't run on sunshine and rainbows. Grow up.

[Luminy]

Originally posted by Paparazzi:

Originally posted by Luminy♡:

it doesn't care about yours either, what law do you actually think AQR breaks exactly?

Couldn't give a ♥♥♥♥ my dude. It's funny watching you flail around defending some ripoff game you definitely aren't emotionally invested in though.

I know you're just fishing for clown awards but you could try to keep some of your dignity at least, that's just pathetic...

[Shore2345]

Originally posted by polocatfan:

Originally posted by Luminy♡:

Is it true that you guys are suing the creator of AQR? That's disgusting, she's just a solo developer who made a game with a similar concept and significantly different execution. You should be ashamed of yourselves for bullying and threatening someone like that.

they stole assets from mini metro. stop defending them.

False

[Shore2345]

Originally posted by Paparazzi:

Originally posted by Luminy♡:

it doesn't care about yours either, what law do you actually think AQR breaks exactly?

Couldn't give a ♥♥♥♥ my dude. It's funny watching you flail around defending some ripoff game you definitely aren't emotionally invested in though.

AQR is NOT a rip-off, so much different compared to MM