Electronic Arts' delusions of grandeur have reached new heights this week, as the company continues to milk its lawsuit against Zynga for cheap applause and gamer cred. Its latest claim? The lawsuit positions Electronic Arts as the industry's very own Batman. 

"When we looked at The Ville we felt somewhat affronted by what we saw as copyright infringement," COO Peter Moore told Eurogamer. "We also feel from an industry perspective that a number of these things have happened before related to Zynga, but there's never been a company that has the wherewithal and the resources to take it to the next level. We do.

"So, we're defending our Maxis studio, and we're standing up for the industry. The roots of what we do as an industry is creative, from the minds of people who sit there and build storylines and characters and mesh it all together and work hard to do it. You take years to do that. And when you see somebody, quite frankly, take months replicating what you've done, you're upset. We were upset. We were upset for Maxis.

"And we've seen enough of it from an industry perspective," he continued, "with smaller publishers and developers who also put their hands up and said, this is not right, but I don't know what to do about it. We do."

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StrawberryMind

they both fucking suck

Usedtabe

Who watches the Watchmen?

Occams electric toothbrush

myherozero

Bat nipples.

Tristrix

NekoD

EA is not the defender we need, but the defender we deserve. :c

Joe Ess

If this is part of some big PR push, then EA needs to fire their PR department. You're not defending the industry, you're kicking a company that is looking like its going to go bankrupt anyways.

Occams electric toothbrush

@Tristix: HA!

jonothanster

They're defending one of their own fucking studios-- their looking out for themselves and trying to play it up like they're industry watchdogs.

jonothanster

They're defending one of their own fucking studios-- their looking out for themselves and trying to play it up like they're industry watchdogs.

NotoriousBIG420

tekbunny

After this, let's hope valve breaks ea's back across their knee forcing them into early retirement.

Noir Trilby

Your entrance was good - his was better!

Epic-Kx

EdgyDude

This is like watching a fight between Satan and Cthulhu

Dhaos

So zynga is mr freeze then?

KwikPwn

Haha, this is almost as bad as Kaz Hirai's dubious claim that Sony was still the "official industry leader" (a couple years back), despite Sony's lack of "officially leading" in anything outside of bullshit comments!

Arttemis

Usedtabe

Jokes on you guys, most of the industry is run by Jews.

GoodlyMike

Really?

Arttemis

SephirothX

Tristrix

Ace829

Arttemis

NotoriousBIG420

SephirothX

NotoriousBIG420

Black Nexus

One could only imagine what it's like sitting on that jury.

Tristrix

Jako21530

@tristix is that Gary Busey
(i pray to God this works)

CrimsonNinja6

So what's up with all these white people and no salad?!? BIAS!!!

Arttemis

@table - Roger that.

NotoriousBIG420

SephirothX

Usedtabe

PK493

Man, it's a good time to be white as snow.

NotoriousBIG420

C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker!

Nightsama

It's okay EA, I like to pretend I'm Singham as well.

Usedtabe

Oops, false alarm guys:

noeCamron

So... what exactly are they claiming ownership of? Isometric views and cartoony furniture sprites? The idea of playing with virtual dolls?

It sounds like they're afraid of a little competition.

Arttemis

Sweet Surrender

The board at EA has many bowel movements. Destructoid thankfully covers these board bowel movements.

Tristrix

Lycan XIII

NotoriousBIG420

Sweet Surrender

Holy shit I should have read this thread before I posted. Paint the town brown!

Lycan XIII

ViewFinder

I'm sensing some amount of sarcasm in here.

Also, EA being EA, nothing new under the sun.

Tristrix