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		MBCook on March 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game I went to look it up and saw I was missing a part of the story. They first released the game as a flash mini-game called Radical Fishing. The whole strange story is here: http://www.polygon.com/2012/10/5/3461458/cloning-case-files-...

pawelkomarnicki on March 28, 2014 [–]

That was a lesson on how NOT to launch idea you want to monetise — why anybody would want to pay fro something they have already for free? :)

MBCook on March 28, 2014 | [–]

They may not have realized how successful a concept it was until they had released the flash version.

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