the la players are not going to give any shits about another shipping game opening. of course it'll be a rip-off, but who cares? all new games are a ripoff of something now, because any game that has anything even remotely different gets beaten into the dirt.

a mixed-medium game would probably be 10x more popular, although you can be sure that people will begin complaining about the medium divide if it actually does get players from both sides.