[yaeger]

Agreed. It was the same with Angry Birds. Original idea/gameplay? Nope. But, they put some serious thought into that project and it payed off. I have seen the predecessors of this game idea and they were not that polished. And they even went and took a whole different set of characters compared to the original Castle Crushers. They didn't just also make a game where you would throw different sized boulders at a castle.

I mean, does anybody remember battle chess? Did people say "yeah, nice little rip off. Chess has been around for so long. How about something original? Just adding the Battle animation is not really innovative, is it?"

I have no problem with ideas of games being used to make their own implementation. As long as it is not a 1:1 copy simply to try and dupe people into buying your thinking they would be buying the original.