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Hephos · 06-10-2003, 09:29 AM

Kavir, Can you not see the difference between vryce, shadows of isildur and our post at TMC?

Or is is just your continual quest to bad mouth our game without being able to back it up?

I mean that it is OK to build a world SIMILAR to tolkien, without using any copyright material from it. Like for example calling people gandalf, frodo or making a monster called balrog is "stealing" his work, while building a world on low-fantasy and elves and dwarves are not. Creating a world completely based on tolkien or star wars or whatever is clearly unauthorized use of the authors work.

Also there is a big difference in an advertisement made to attract search hits in a search engine and "stealing" copyrighted work. Just because we write that our game is similar to some famous works in an advertisement does not mean we steal their copyrighted material, in any way.

We are not using a "reasonable" amount of tolkiens work, we are using NONE of tolkiens work. It is a big difference. Muds that use ANY of tolkiens work should be banned, muds that do not use it should not be banned. I know you can see the difference, you are just on your everlasting quest to slam our LEGITIMATE game (in contrary to medievia and SoI), which you seem to enjoy even more than actually going after games that have done something wrong.

I guess it is because we are creating a commercial game on the side, and it does not fit your glorious view where every mud admin spends half their life working for free on some ****ty diku derivate. Ohh and of course they should already have a "well-paid" work and the muds should just be a hobby like for yourself as you have said in the past, anything else is just wrong in your opinion, and you have to keep slam them. Well some people are maybe not as well paid as yourself and maybe they can see a future forthemselves with making a game from scratch commercial, ever thought about that?

Every post i make, anywhere, you have to drag up some crap accusations about our game without being able to back it up. Please try to get some facts straight before you open your mouth. Clean it up, there is a cheesy smell coming from it.

06-10-2003, 09:29 AM	#190
Hephos Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Sweden Home MUD: www.sharune.com Posts: 359	Kavir, Can you not see the difference between vryce, shadows of isildur and our post at TMC? Or is is just your continual quest to bad mouth our game without being able to back it up? I mean that it is OK to build a world SIMILAR to tolkien, without using any copyright material from it. Like for example calling people gandalf, frodo or making a monster called balrog is "stealing" his work, while building a world on low-fantasy and elves and dwarves are not. Creating a world completely based on tolkien or star wars or whatever is clearly unauthorized use of the authors work. Also there is a big difference in an advertisement made to attract search hits in a search engine and "stealing" copyrighted work. Just because we write that our game is similar to some famous works in an advertisement does not mean we steal their copyrighted material, in any way. We are not using a "reasonable" amount of tolkiens work, we are using NONE of tolkiens work. It is a big difference. Muds that use ANY of tolkiens work should be banned, muds that do not use it should not be banned. I know you can see the difference, you are just on your everlasting quest to slam our LEGITIMATE game (in contrary to medievia and SoI), which you seem to enjoy even more than actually going after games that have done something wrong. I guess it is because we are creating a commercial game on the side, and it does not fit your glorious view where every mud admin spends half their life working for free on some ****ty diku derivate. Ohh and of course they should already have a "well-paid" work and the muds should just be a hobby like for yourself as you have said in the past, anything else is just wrong in your opinion, and you have to keep slam them. Well some people are maybe not as well paid as yourself and maybe they can see a future forthemselves with making a game from scratch commercial, ever thought about that? Every post i make, anywhere, you have to drag up some crap accusations about our game without being able to back it up. Please try to get some facts straight before you open your mouth. Clean it up, there is a cheesy smell coming from it.