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Infogrames Serves Civ3 Fans With Cease and Desist
janolder writes "According to multiple articles on heise online (German only), the leader of an effort to localize Civilization III for Germany, Kai Fiebach, has been slapped with a cease and desist letter, including $500 lawyer bill from Infogrames Germany. A grassroots effort to help Kai and tell Infogrames off is forming."
"Background: Most European versions of Civ3 are late. With a slated release for March 2002, Kai and a group of Civ3 fans decided to translate portions of Civ3 to German and to make the result available as a set of files to be applied to the US on time for Christmas. Kai informed Infogrames of his effort and even offered to join forces with their localization team if only the game would be released sooner. Sadly, Infogrames reacted by sending Kai a cease and desist letter, alleging copyright infringement. The home page of the translation effort has already been taken down.
The reason for Infogrames' reaction seems to be that Infogrames Germany doesn't make a single penny on the US version of the game sold through Amazon Germany and other vendors."
Well, this wouldn't be that big of a deal if these people just learned to speak a real language like English. If you're going to continue to speak that filthy pig latin you call German then deal with it. Get with it guys, you LOST World War II. If you would have won we'd be speaking nazi.. you lost so speak English.
... seriously. It only serves to agitate all the really rabid open source people.
This guy did something that is going to potentially seriously affect this title's sales in Germany. As far as I'm concerned, he deserves to get his ass slapped with a court order. Nobody has a god given right to a delivery date on software... Localization takes time - German in particular for games, as a lot of text changes length.
Me too, so I could mod both of you fucktards down into oblivion.