Posted by Pele on June 18, 1998 at 16:28:23:
In Reply to: Stupid Producters posted by Anonym on June 18, 1998 at 15:48:04:
okay, story time kids.
Imagine for a minute that you created a game. i know it is unlikely that a politeness-handicapped person like yourself would be skilled enough to produce a fully working 3d game, but bear with me.
So, you release your game to the nation, millions of people buy it. All of a sudden URLs are popping up named yourgame.com, yourgame.net, etc etc. You feel pretty good about it. Then people start making addons to your game, even better.
Based on its success, you decide to make an addon for your game. 4 months later, you release it to the nation. People buy it, not as many as the original though. For this game, you spent much more time creating accurate and realistic artwork and enemies. You are much more proud of it.
A few weeks later, you see that people have been using resources from your addon in the original game. You immediately outburst in anger becuase you worked so hard to create that addon and people get to see the resources you worked on for free! you lost thousands of dollars becuase people didnt buy the game, just played a level with all the new artwork in it. You immediately go into a mad rage and kill yourself.
The morale of the story: using resources from one game in another isnt just wrong, it is blatantly illegal.
--Pele