| commentid | objectid | typeid | userid | subject | comment | timestamp | parentid |
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| 12167 | FreeCraft | games | 5676 | Re: blizzard | Amigo, exacto. Blizzard puede chupamela XD<br><br> Con muchos recuerdos,<br> simcon<br> Lanzarote POWA | 2003-06-22 08:48:20 | 12164 |
| 12168 | FreeCraft | games | -1 | Dear Blizzard... | Here's an e-mail I sent to Blizzard. I thought I'd post it here to get some comments.<br /> <br /> ---------<br /> <br /> <br /> Dear Blizzard,<br /> <br /> I've always been a fan of your games. Ever since the days when you released the first WarCraft.<br /> Those were the good days, when we had to use memmaker to have enough memory to play some games! Some might say that it was hell but I actually recall those days with a smile in the corner of my lips.<br /> <br /> Time moves on and here we are now, when one single game takes up what used to be entire hard drives and those that used to be small game development companies (like Blizzard) were bought by big entertainment companies and are now worth several million dollars (perhaps more?).<br /> <br /> This makes me sad, because money is indeed a bad thing in many ways. One of them is that when people start earning money, they get greedy. They start wanting more and more. And they do anything to get more money into their pockets.<br /> This led the video-game industry to a point where selling more than anyone else seems to be more important than making good games.<br /> <br /> What happened to good gameplay and good story? All gone. All that matters now is how much blood there is in a game and how good it's graphics are.<br /> <br /> But I don't blame Blizzard for this. Actually, Blizzard is one of the few game makers that was able to stay away from the "violence&graphics-only" formula. You have my greatest respect for that.<br /> <br /> What you don't have my respect for, is shuting down a hobyist project that was doing nothing wrong.<br /> As far as I see it, you shut down FreeCraft because it allowed people use your graphics from Warcraft 2. Perhaps there's more to it than this but unless the FreeCraft project was somehow hurting you - and they weren't - , I don't think you had any reason to shut them down.<br /> <br /> Were they stealing clients from you? No.<br /> They had an option in their engine to use the graphics from WarCraft 2.<br /> I don't want to discuss if that's against some kind of law or disrespects some intelectual property crap. I think it's about time people stop attacking each other because of such stupid things as this one. Unfortunately, this seems to be in vogue, these days.<br /> So basically, was the FreeCraft Project hurting you in any way? I don't think so. And neither do hundreds of people around the whole world.<br /> <br /> But hey, maybe you were able to see some light we were unable to, and found out something that somehow sliped through our eyes and is indeed hurting Blizzard!<br /> Yes, that's probably it. After all, you're the ones with big bucks to hire expensive lawyers, so you must have seen something that we, the small hobyist developers without money, couldn't to see...<br /> <br /> So I hope you're satisfied now that you have taken out this big enemy you had, which was preventing you from earning big bucks and therefore preventing you from buying really expensive stuff that is really essential for your life.<br /> It was a fair battle and in the end, the side of justice won.<br /> <br /> Congratulations, Blizzard.<br /> <br /> Let's just hope that no other game developers follow your example... | 2003-06-22 09:13:11 | 0 |
| 12169 | FreeCraft | games | 5676 | Re: Email Blizzard please | Yes and you are welcome to your official statement, but these are the comments for FreeCraft not Project Inferno. I am just stating that it is a good idea to let ones feelings be know in a responsible and productive way rather than just accepting bully-boy tactics :) Emailing ones opinion to me seems a sensible thing to do under the circumstances. Anyway good luck on your new project. | 2003-06-22 09:16:27 | 12156 |
| 12170 | Project LRNJ: Slime Forest | games | 8166 | Great! | Very well done, great for helping to learn Japanese. Can't be used to learn it alone though, it is only a helper. It would be nice to see a full learning thing implemented into the game for not just Kanji. Could use some music and soundeffects (I did notice the developer had talked about music on his site). Could also be a bit more responcive and have a better fullscreen mode (i.e. the choice for res or something, going fullscreen makes my refresh get all crappy) I wouldnt mind seeing joystick support (make it feel more NES like ;-) ) | 2003-06-22 09:56:01 | 0 |
| 12171 | FreeCraft | games | -1 | Re: You people are hilarious. | i think he was thinking it used the Warcraft II Battle.net Edition, not the Dos versions | 2003-06-22 10:16:15 | 12162 |
| 12172 | FreeCraft | games | -1 | Re: You people are hilarious. | <i>To put it bluntly: there is no way for you to legally port the game. Period.</i> Incorrect. Copyright protects only the exact contents of original work, as well as portions thereof. You can make works as similar as you like, as long as you aren't copying from the original to do so. Freecraft let you use the original graphics (optionally), but said graphics were not included in the Freecraft project. You don't even need to do a clean-room reimplementation to be legal (though it may make it easier to prove that you're legal). | 2003-06-22 10:19:29 | 12158 |
| 12173 | Project LRNJ: Slime Forest | games | -1 | fun, battles a bit hard tho | This game actually looks pretty good. The battles are a little to hard, so definitely tone down the difficulty if you're a beginner. Back to playing. :) | 2003-06-22 10:28:38 | 0 |
| 12174 | FreeCraft | games | -1 | Re: Fork of Freecraft: Project Inferno | Unfortunately, maybe the concept of FreeCraft as a project was doomed from the start, when it tried to clone every aspect of the game Warcraft 2. The goal for the project was to use artwork and design done by Blizzard a long time ago, it would not have the appeal to engage designers and artists, it would seem too much like working on "abandonware". Besides, the original game would probably run better on an emulator, anyway. (I know that there is a project to substitute the artwork, and that it would get there eventually, but as a project it doesn't have the appeal, see?)<p><p>The point that is unacceptable for Blizzard, watching their game being ported to other OS by hobbysts, gives an opportunity for the project to take a step forward, and release itself from the tag of "abandonware cloning". The opportunity to be a Generic RTS System, which is the direction it was going to take eventually. This is an extended project that would require artists and designers to engage in. A project for new RTS games.<p><p>I wish you all tons of good luck on your new project. | 2003-06-22 10:33:53 | 12145 |
| 12175 | Project LRNJ: Slime Forest | games | -1 | nice game | nice game, found a bug, its fixed in the most recent version <pre>md5sum jquest/jquest f0a3de52aca583d37315fb801901aa59 jquest/jquest </pre> is the buggy one <pre> md5sum jquest/jquest c411d024419dd1f4c6672b4b4aa113a3 jquest/jquest </pre> is the fixed one. Thanx for this game it's a nice thing... mind opening the source? | 2003-06-22 10:42:06 | 0 |
| 12176 | FreeCraft | games | 8159 | Re: Dear Blizzard... | Hi <br> Matt here. This E-mail message sounds great and I was wondering if it would be ok with you to make this a template for sending Blizzard a complaint. I have a site up and I would love to make this part of my E-mail Campaign page and allow other users to make this a good template. I just need your approval and a name to give credit to. <br> Thanks | 2003-06-22 10:54:07 | 12168 |