I believe that Blizzard has advertising on Battle.net which means that they're making some money from it. Not to say that they're right in trying to shut down bnetd.
>> the next CS Clone (which already cloned rainbow six)
Actually, CS isn't cloned from Rainbow Six. Minh Le's first creation (that I know of) was a mod called "Navy Seals" for Quake 1. For the time, it was fantastic, featuring all kinds of neat stuff like location-based damage and weapons with semi-realistic recoil, etc. Unfortunately, it got killed. I can't remember the reason why, but it's still very hard to find (the glQuake version is even harder to find). To get back to the point, the foundations of Counter-Strike were well in place *long* before Rainbow Six was even considered as a theme for a video game.
>> More and more Games, more and more Movies are one and the same idea beefed up with "special fx", being showcases of technology.
As for creativity, well we'll leave that up to the Japanese. From what I understand, Pikmin is pretty unique.
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I believe that Blizzard has advertising on Battle.net which means that they're making some money from it. Not to say that they're right in trying to shut down bnetd.
>> the next CS Clone (which already cloned rainbow six)
Actually, CS isn't cloned from Rainbow Six. Minh Le's first creation (that I know of) was a mod called "Navy Seals" for Quake 1. For the time, it was fantastic, featuring all kinds of neat stuff like location-based damage and weapons with semi-realistic recoil, etc. Unfortunately, it got killed. I can't remember the reason why, but it's still very hard to find (the glQuake version is even harder to find). To get back to the point, the foundations of Counter-Strike were well in place *long* before Rainbow Six was even considered as a theme for a video game.
>> More and more Games, more and more Movies are one and the same idea beefed up with "special fx", being showcases of technology.
As for creativity, well we'll leave that up to the Japanese. From what I understand, Pikmin is pretty unique.