Loved EGM in the early 90's. Then after the web picked up, they started trolling gaming sites, their forums, and even IRC chat stealing information to put in their publication without giving due credit to the authors of the original material. They stole work mainly from authors of fighting game FAQs. From MK2, DOA, to Tekken even. I'm sure there were more. Even found an old article on here talking about it. http://games.slashdot.org/games/06/01/23/1244234.shtml
They had a very good mag I thought, but I stopped subscribing after they became FAQ Stealers Monthly.:)
Moveslist and moves are discovered by the gamers who put the time and money into the games. They in turn submit these moves, combos, and strategies to FAQ authors in the community who compose a "moveslist" or FAQ about the game. When I say 1UP or EGM ripped these guys off, I literally mean they ripped these guys off. Word for Word of their FAQs or Moveslist. Yes the moves in a game are a fact and can be used by anyone in their own rightful publications. However when you copy false moves from another authors work, then it becomes plagiarism, and you also unintentionally disclose the source of your wrong doings. I'm not here to argue that other publications using moves from a game to post in their magazine/book is wrong. But when you use a source to get your information and do not give proper credit to the ones doing the footwork, it's wrong no matter how you look at it. I'm not discussing legality, but rather the moral aspect of the issue. What does it hurt to put a simple line in your publication giving credit/thanks to the source of where you get your information. Also some combos in a fighting game are not static moves. Example being, if you can take existing moves in a game and put them together in your own custom way to form a combo that isn't defined anywhere in a game or was the intent of the game makers. Good example of this would be the juggles combos in Mortal Kombat. Gamers found that you could get extra moves in on an opponent before their character hit the ground and these combos became know as juggles to a several people. Even the game designer when asked about these was amazed that gamers had found different ways to play the game that was never really meant to be. Point being that people in the community knows when this happens and it's just really disappointing to see big publications take advantage of the hardwork are resources of the original authors of the material.
Actually these guys have been ripping off video game FAQ authors for years. Even as far back as 1993. A well known faq author for some of the Mortal Kombat games would actually poison his FAQ with false moves just to see if they appeared in other peoples FAQs or magazines. Any MK fans from that era will prolly recall seeing the "Tiger Run" move from MK2 posted in an EGM "strategy guide" in one of their issues. Sure enough, EGM was there to rip of his every word, even the fake ones. A few years later they ripped of a FAQ author of a Tekken 3 Moves list. So to most of the people in the fighting game community this isn't really nothing new. Really sad, but it has been happening for over 10 years now.
I know several users experience lag from time to time on their servers. Just curious as to what the most common cause is for this. Is it because the servers have problems keeping up with all the events going on with the server, or is from lack of bandwidth on the network?
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Loved EGM in the early 90's. Then after the web picked up, they started trolling gaming sites, their forums, and even IRC chat stealing information to put in their publication without giving due credit to the authors of the original material. They stole work mainly from authors of fighting game FAQs. From MK2, DOA, to Tekken even. I'm sure there were more. Even found an old article on here talking about it. http://games.slashdot.org/games/06/01/23/1244234.shtml They had a very good mag I thought, but I stopped subscribing after they became FAQ Stealers Monthly. :)
Moveslist and moves are discovered by the gamers who put the time and money into the games. They in turn submit these moves, combos, and strategies to FAQ authors in the community who compose a "moveslist" or FAQ about the game. When I say 1UP or EGM ripped these guys off, I literally mean they ripped these guys off. Word for Word of their FAQs or Moveslist. Yes the moves in a game are a fact and can be used by anyone in their own rightful publications. However when you copy false moves from another authors work, then it becomes plagiarism, and you also unintentionally disclose the source of your wrong doings. I'm not here to argue that other publications using moves from a game to post in their magazine/book is wrong. But when you use a source to get your information and do not give proper credit to the ones doing the footwork, it's wrong no matter how you look at it. I'm not discussing legality, but rather the moral aspect of the issue. What does it hurt to put a simple line in your publication giving credit/thanks to the source of where you get your information. Also some combos in a fighting game are not static moves. Example being, if you can take existing moves in a game and put them together in your own custom way to form a combo that isn't defined anywhere in a game or was the intent of the game makers. Good example of this would be the juggles combos in Mortal Kombat. Gamers found that you could get extra moves in on an opponent before their character hit the ground and these combos became know as juggles to a several people. Even the game designer when asked about these was amazed that gamers had found different ways to play the game that was never really meant to be. Point being that people in the community knows when this happens and it's just really disappointing to see big publications take advantage of the hardwork are resources of the original authors of the material.
Actually these guys have been ripping off video game FAQ authors for years. Even as far back as 1993. A well known faq author for some of the Mortal Kombat games would actually poison his FAQ with false moves just to see if they appeared in other peoples FAQs or magazines. Any MK fans from that era will prolly recall seeing the "Tiger Run" move from MK2 posted in an EGM "strategy guide" in one of their issues. Sure enough, EGM was there to rip of his every word, even the fake ones. A few years later they ripped of a FAQ author of a Tekken 3 Moves list. So to most of the people in the fighting game community this isn't really nothing new. Really sad, but it has been happening for over 10 years now.
I know several users experience lag from time to time on their servers. Just curious as to what the most common cause is for this. Is it because the servers have problems keeping up with all the events going on with the server, or is from lack of bandwidth on the network?