EA can’t litigate to prevent some other developer from entering the life sim genre. That is illegal in the United States. Plenty of games have designs inspired by The Sims without any lawsuits so they have no basis to file one against a developer solely because they are making a game that could compete with Sims. As greedy and gross as EA is, they have lawyers that aren’t stupid enough to set EA up for that failure. If some game plagiarizes Sims (which would be using EA’s property from Sims, not creating something similar) then they would have a case to sue. Look at how many fortnite clones exist and that should give people a good idea about what can and cannot be litigated when it comes to video games.
