Did they even try to contact them and ASK them to make a couple changes before they sent the Cease and Desist?
Well did the FreeCraft people ask Blizzard if there is a problem if the use their graphics and name the game FreeCraft? Would have been the sensible way.
Of course blizzard shut it down, because you don't need an "official" key to use it. The honor system has become suprisingly worthless nowadays.
This might be because if there is any possibility to get a game for free the "honorable customers" use it. Remember Warcraft 3 was three weeks before the official start of sale availiable on P2P. Multiplayer and the key are the main reason why Blizzard sells a lot of games. Of course they are not happy if someone takes away their main reason to sell their (excellent) games.
Oh yeah the alternatives where everyone could play with his illegal copy of Blizzard games. Damn Blizzard for shutting them down, I always loved to play with guys who have stolen their copy of the game, they are much more mature than the usual Blizzard crowd.
I understand why Blizzard has a bit of a problem with it. As anyone of this project even bothered to inform Blizzard of what kind of game they want to make? I looks nearly like *Craft, it sounds like *Craft - no wonder Blizzard isn't happy with it. Has nobody learnt a lesson from the Ultima-Remake-Stories?
of configuring and building a PC with the money these Macs will cost.
The specs sure sound great, too bad that I cannot get warm with Jaguar/Macs (and lack the money for such a machine).
No Egyptâ(TM)s government officials are more religious than our government system combined.
Really? Everytime I see Bush or Ashcroft making some speech they invoke God and Jesus. They talk about faith and strength through God. What about the Pledge of Alliance, which was changed last century (the 20th) to include the "under God" part? Is it a prayer? Or is it some kind of official (government) thing? Or the money? Is there a mention of God on the Greenback?
Well how do you feel about the rating how old you have to be to view the film applied to films in the western world? Isn't it some kind of decision made by others too?
First I doubt there are even 4000 half-decent SF books out there - the names you mentioned are surely not even near the top of SF-writers.
Fantasy:
Simple rule: Avoid Jordan and Goodkind, they are very popular, but also mediocre at best.
Good authors (most of them named several times here):
Paul Kearney - Monarchies of God
Steven Erikson - The Malazan Book of Fallen
George RR Martin - The Song of Ice and Fire
Tad Williams - Memory, Sorrow & Thorn and Otherland
Terry Pratchett - Discworld
Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Sandman, Smoke & Mirrors
Between A Storm of Swords and A Dance of Dragons was a 5 year gap (not 20) planned, but he had to scrap the gap and fill it with a book, since there are things happening in this time, which cannot be told soley through flashbacks. So the series will probably go to 7 instead of 6 books.
>. I've never seen anyone who has built such depth into his characters and his world.
Three names:
George R. R. Martin
Steven Erikson
Paul Kearney
Everyone of them has written a far superior series than WoT. Everyone of them has far better world building and especially much better written characters.
>Stephenson is good--I don't think he's done much fantasy-- except, of course, "American Gods". I liked "Zodiac", but that's not exactly fantasy.
American Gods is from Neil Gaiman, not Neil Stephenson.
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Did they even try to contact them and ASK them to make a couple changes before they sent the Cease and Desist?
Well did the FreeCraft people ask Blizzard if there is a problem if the use their graphics and name the game FreeCraft? Would have been the sensible way.
Damn. This should read as: "Blizzard owns the graphics, which Freecraft rips off the Warcraft-2-CD to generate the art of Freecraft."
They own the grapics FreeCraft uses when it rips them off the CD to use it.
Yes I will. They make great games and the Bnetd- and FreeCraft-maker should have talked to Blizzard about legal things beforehand.
Of course blizzard shut it down, because you don't need an "official" key to use it. The honor system has become suprisingly worthless nowadays. This might be because if there is any possibility to get a game for free the "honorable customers" use it. Remember Warcraft 3 was three weeks before the official start of sale availiable on P2P. Multiplayer and the key are the main reason why Blizzard sells a lot of games. Of course they are not happy if someone takes away their main reason to sell their (excellent) games.
Oh yeah the alternatives where everyone could play with his illegal copy of Blizzard games. Damn Blizzard for shutting them down, I always loved to play with guys who have stolen their copy of the game, they are much more mature than the usual Blizzard crowd.
I understand why Blizzard has a bit of a problem with it.
As anyone of this project even bothered to inform Blizzard of what kind of game they want to make? I looks nearly like *Craft, it sounds like *Craft - no wonder Blizzard isn't happy with it.
Has nobody learnt a lesson from the Ultima-Remake-Stories?
of configuring and building a PC with the money these Macs will cost. The specs sure sound great, too bad that I cannot get warm with Jaguar/Macs (and lack the money for such a machine).
Please show us these statistics? 95 %? In Egypt, a secular country with a diverse religious structure?
Of course the USA would never censor or ban anything.
No Egyptâ(TM)s government officials are more religious than our government system combined. Really? Everytime I see Bush or Ashcroft making some speech they invoke God and Jesus. They talk about faith and strength through God. What about the Pledge of Alliance, which was changed last century (the 20th) to include the "under God" part? Is it a prayer? Or is it some kind of official (government) thing? Or the money? Is there a mention of God on the Greenback?
Well how do you feel about the rating how old you have to be to view the film applied to films in the western world? Isn't it some kind of decision made by others too?
Obviously he doesn't cater the Furries, so he can't be the Übergeek.
The third one is my favourite by far.
Terry Pratchett is your man. Funny, deep and intersting characters. Thought-provoking and often philosophical.
First I doubt there are even 4000 half-decent SF books out there - the names you mentioned are surely not even near the top of SF-writers. Fantasy: Simple rule: Avoid Jordan and Goodkind, they are very popular, but also mediocre at best. Good authors (most of them named several times here): Paul Kearney - Monarchies of God Steven Erikson - The Malazan Book of Fallen George RR Martin - The Song of Ice and Fire Tad Williams - Memory, Sorrow & Thorn and Otherland Terry Pratchett - Discworld Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Sandman, Smoke & Mirrors
Between A Storm of Swords and A Dance of Dragons was a 5 year gap (not 20) planned, but he had to scrap the gap and fill it with a book, since there are things happening in this time, which cannot be told soley through flashbacks. So the series will probably go to 7 instead of 6 books.
>. I've never seen anyone who has built such depth into his characters and his world. Three names: George R. R. Martin Steven Erikson Paul Kearney Everyone of them has written a far superior series than WoT. Everyone of them has far better world building and especially much better written characters.
>Stephenson is good--I don't think he's done much fantasy-- except, of course, "American Gods". I liked "Zodiac", but that's not exactly fantasy. American Gods is from Neil Gaiman, not Neil Stephenson.
Considering the books were written mainly between 1940 and 50, I would say no.