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yes, if a company sees too many similarities, they can bring in their lawyers and have a site shut down; it's the same if someone makes t-shirts with fanart on them, then sells them someplace or distributes, it's a potential loss to the copyright owner.
copyrights are stinky things; big money operations aren't willing to lose potential customers/profits to knockoffs made by anyone...they see it as a threat to future earnings and will shut the operation down immediately in most cases.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:00 am Post subject: |
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sybillious, you have a point, but copyrights are there to protect the little guy too. It's unfortunate that they sometimes get in the way, but what can one do...
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:41 am Post subject: |
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God it's a shame Chrono Resurection got shut down, that game looked awesome. I can imagine Square-Enix wanting to make their own remake and selling it.
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sybillious
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:50 am Post subject: |
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while they protect the little guys, if little guy makes a 'knockoff' the big corp goes after them with impunity and they always win. it's a 'ware the plagarist situation; unless you don't plan on having it publicly accessed, there shouldn't be a problem.
what they don't know can't hurt them...until someone leaks it.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:57 am Post subject: |
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| God it's a shame Chrono Resurection got shut down, that game looked awesome. I can imagine Square-Enix wanting to make their own remake and selling it. |
Sqaure-Enix should have just bought (or told the programmers to give them the finished product?) the fangame and released it under their company instead of shutting down the project. *Stares* That's quite some nice work that team was doing there.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 7:19 am Post subject: |
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Sorry, I was a little tired; that's what I meant they should have done. I would have thought with a game of that high quality, Square-Enix would have wanted to purchase the rights/site or contract the creators and publish the game themselves. That would have been a seller.
Anyway, as we see by FF7:DoC, Square do not know what they're doing lol (Please don't discuss DoC here ^_^)
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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OMG, they actually shut down that project?!?!?!
Even though I am not a Chrono fan, those screenshots are amazing, this is truely a shame.
I have alawys thought that fan project is a good thing for a series. After all, it tells you that someone loves the game enough to devote their times and resources to make a fan project. But, alas... guess the companies dont think so.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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Fliktor, that would have been a logical decision for Square-Enix, and it seems like the increasingly common course of action for large companies is to take logic and throw it out the window. Although I've got the PSX Chrono Trigger re-release in Final Fantasy Chronicles, I would have loved to pick up an official version of the Chrono Ressurection remake.
The same thing happened with a Dragon Ball Z-type fan project titled "Bid For Power," the creators were issued a cease and decist order, so they removed everything DBZ from the project and continued with a different theme. I can't remember which game is was a mod of, but it looked great at the time.
You've got to wonder what's going through the minds of the top executives at these companies, when fans are crying for such games and they repeatedly ignore such requests and give us games like Final Fantasy X-2. (apologies to those who enjoyed the game, I just... didn't)
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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well, the best you can do is make a flash game.
like...suiko-memory?
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