Because it's awesome. :)

The art is good and the music is great and its still fun , say that its copied is the same as Nintendo complaining that every platform is a copy of Mario , the game is differently enough from Chinese parents to not make it a ´´copy´´

Imagine if you created a game and now exclusively owned that kind of game with nobody allowed to make anything even remotely similar. There'd only be like 50 games in existence in total!

I don't disagree about this being an "Americanized" version of Chinese parents, but it feels more like an adaptation than a copy. The job system is /so much/ less of a mess. And the characters are a great deal more compelling to me- things can get intense. The story lines are definitely the strong suit of the game.

Chinese parents is not as smooth and a rougher product. This one is less complicated to understand

It's a game, not a charity organization. There's no moral obligation to financially support it if you're so diametrically opposed.

You'd buy it if you want to play a version of Chinese Parents with 90s American aesthetics. If not, then there's really no need to convince you.

It might be a clone, but it's not a ripoff, as there has been a lot of effort in the character art and dialogue.

They are indeed too so similar

What's more interesting is that here in China people would say the game Chinese Parents successfully depicted how terrible Chinese families treat their children in aspect of education and paying too much attention to a child's score than other aspect. But the game with same framework on personal growth are actually well accepted by western players.

Originally posted by 1439523275:

What's more interesting is that here in China people would say the game Chinese Parents successfully depicted how terrible Chinese families treat their children in aspect of education and paying too much attention to a child's score than other aspect. But the game with same framework on personal growth are actually well accepted by western players.

Because the "western" version doesn't depict the family aspect at all really. It is more the perspective of the child 'growing up". It almost feels like you've seen they have the same mechanics and just ignored every single other aspect of the game entirely and are just accusing them of cloning the game because you feel slighted by it.

Quick reminder: you cannot copyright, trademark, nor patent a game mechanic. It is perfectly OK for two games to share mechanics so long as they have enough other parts to make them different, such as the writing for example.

I had heard that this game has received authorization from Chinese parents, so I think it’s not just a simple copy.

Originally posted by Shine107:

I had heard that this game has received authorization from Chinese parents, so I think it’s not just a simple copy.

It feels very doubtful as to that being the case. Even if it is, that is nothing more than a show of good will between the developers of each game.

Chinese parents has no ownership over the mechanics themselves, and so would have no basis to press it as a "copy" regardless. Would only be if it infringed on very specific things like characters or the writing itself.