Sunday, December 24th, 2006
Issue: 2   Editor: Nobody


Chicken or the Egg? Nyxxie
The game forum is constantly filled with rather rude and blunt comments about the new features BSF2000 brings into the game. We often hear that the features new to Bootleggers are not new to other rival games, hence making Bootleggers a copycat and a Xeroxed version of an already established game. This brings up the question of what came first; the chicken or the egg? Although that question has been asked several times and never once has an official answer been established, when it comes to www.bootleggers.us and its rival games; this is one answer we can make a conclusion to.

Created on August 20, 2003, through www.godaddy.com, www.bootleggers.us was created. That is exactly three years, one month and seven days before one rival game and one year, five months and thirty days prior to another.

Every time a new feature is implemented into Bootleggers, there always seem to be one person to spoil everything for everyone; exclaiming that the new feature is just a copy of another game. However, let’s set the record straight. According to the WHOIS database of websites and their creators, www.bootleggers.us has the earliest creation date, making all those other rival games just copies of the original www.bootleggers.us

These rival games can change their color scheme, change their rank names and claim that their game is not a copy of Bootleggers, however, lets face the facts—shall we? Bootleggers came first; the rival games came tumbling after. When every single feature in other mafia text-based games is a copy of Bootleggers, the fact that BSF2000 implements features your game already has, is minute compared to ideas after ideas they stole from this game.

Upon the release of the first Bootleggers Buzz this reset, many complaints have been that the layout of the new Buzz is just like one of the rival’s. However, have you ever sat back and counted how many features that rival game has, that has copied those of Bootleggers? Have you nothing else better to complain about?
Upon research, there is three known games that copy the style, the fundamentals and the layout of bootleggers, minus a couple of changes to it here and there. Have you ever once stood up for Bootleggers when those games made their debut days, months and even years later?

Perhaps before bashing BSF2000 and the Elite Guard for “copycat” features, next time you should sit back and ask yourself, “Who exactly is the copycat?”