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by rexreed 1325 days ago
In what way does this reference the Streisand Effect? Everyone already knows IKEA and this won't make people want to do more or less with IKEA. This looks like standard trademark / trade dress complaint.
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It makes more people aware of the game.
Most likely the game designer will change the design, and then everyone wins. IKEA wins and the game developer wins from the attention. Which is what they all want, unlike Babs.
> Most likely the game designer will change the design, and then everyone wins.

This is most likely based on SCP-3008 , which parodies the hard-to-navigate nature of Ikea (and adds some horror elements based on it). A generic store will not have the same impact.

[0] https://the-scp.foundation/object/scp-3008

If the game designer is smart, he will change all colors, branding, everything and allow the players to install mods. Good luck to IKEA for shutting down every single IKEA mod archive in the WWW.
That's the opposite of the Streisand effect, which here brings attention to the game.