EA steals from Games Workshop
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Red Alert is just Cold War x10000000000000 and it's pretty comical.Elmoth said:
Tiberian Sun and Dawn are pretty much about fighting for a new resource which is actually killing the planet - it could be compared to oil in a modern day world. There's stuff about evolution with Kane's big tiberium bomb too though.
40K stopped making interesting commentary long ago and apart from Dan Abnett novels, is now just an excuse to have power armoured space marine porn. It's a giant galaxy spanning epic war setting, but C&C is somewhat grounded in reality, Tiberian Dawn was pretty recognisable as the 90s, whilst further games are just a post apocalyptic version of that. 40K makes no references to anything from our modern day time.
At least on the bright side the Baneblade is an awesome tank. I wonder if they're gonna copy the Leman Russ next?
It's been 3 years since i quit 40K, and that tank still makes me happy.Soviet Heavy said:The worst part to that is if they consider the Baneblade a forgotten design. This isn't the Dark Age of Technology People, the Baneblade hasn't changed that much!MammothBlade said:
Ot: Sue the crap outa them GW.
You glorious bastards.
I think you guys are overreacting.
Didn't you notice the additional machine gun on top of the Grinder turret? Not at all like the Bonecrunchas vision slit!
Also, the Bombard Tank has waaaaay shorter barrels than the Baneblade. And did you notice the headlights? They're rectangular! And their housing is held in place by two rivets each! I don't see any rivets on that flimsy Baneblade's headlights!
On a more serious note though, when I first saw the artworks, i thought "well, looks like they put some WH40k Laser Cannons on YR's Grinder tank. Oh hey, the other one kinda reminds me of my brother's Leman Russ..."
I might have to add that the Leman Russ is kinda the only Imperial Battletank I know.
Didn't you notice the additional machine gun on top of the Grinder turret? Not at all like the Bonecrunchas vision slit!
Also, the Bombard Tank has waaaaay shorter barrels than the Baneblade. And did you notice the headlights? They're rectangular! And their housing is held in place by two rivets each! I don't see any rivets on that flimsy Baneblade's headlights!
On a more serious note though, when I first saw the artworks, i thought "well, looks like they put some WH40k Laser Cannons on YR's Grinder tank. Oh hey, the other one kinda reminds me of my brother's Leman Russ..."
I might have to add that the Leman Russ is kinda the only Imperial Battletank I know.
There is no legal trouble unless the game is released. Pursuing legal action against copyright infringement when no profit has been made is a difficult course. Generally, a cease and desist order is sent instead and the offending content is removed.Emiscary said:
Now, if you want to talk about obvious stealing, look at early Battletech designs (Marauder, Warhammer, Battlemaster, etc) and compare them to a notable anime released earlier. . .
Wow, it took me a second to figure out whose tank was whose tank, and I've been playing 40k for a couple years now. That... that can't be good.
Ouch, those are copies and not even "*Wink Wink* see its not the same" copies. Well maybe after GW sues EA they can do a price drop.
Boy, the sheeple sure do enjoy finding reasons to "hate" EA. Which is funny, because they'll all still buy their products. It's cute how people on the internet throw around words at the slightest provocation, chuck a little tantrum, rant for a week and and then open their wallets and make new releases push sales records sky high.
Wonder what it'll be cool to hate next...
Wonder what it'll be cool to hate next...
They took an Ork bonecruncha and painted it green and yellow. Why? The red ones go faster.
Seriously though, that is some lazy design work right there. The designer who did this needs to be fired. What is kinda worrisome is that they didn't even bother to edit the small details to even try to hide the theft. Did a designer think they could create a carbon copy with a new paint scheme and no one would notice?
However, if you look on the C&C Alliances website, you won't find the images. Hopefully that means EA came down hard on this.
Seriously though, that is some lazy design work right there. The designer who did this needs to be fired. What is kinda worrisome is that they didn't even bother to edit the small details to even try to hide the theft. Did a designer think they could create a carbon copy with a new paint scheme and no one would notice?
However, if you look on the C&C Alliances website, you won't find the images. Hopefully that means EA came down hard on this.
GW is VERY protective of their IP properties. Just look at what happened to Damnatus, a fan made film.Das Boot said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatus
If they were being lazy, there is a fairly popular mod on tiberian wars that adds the forgotten as a faction and gives them a short campaign as well. They could have just asked the mods creator if they could use their models, they already look great and are really balanced with the other races. If they'd done that most of the design for the forgotten would be done, they'd only need a few new units and things to keep them in line with GDI and Nod.j-e-f-f-e-r-s said:
The leman Russ is an almost identical copy of a WW1 tank, the name of which escapes me at the moment. Games Workshop are pretty well known for "borrowing" ideas and the like, what goes around comes around really - there are only so many different types of tank you can design.MercurySteam said:
Live and let live.
There may be something more behind this blattant theft...
Anyone remember what happened years ago with a little game called "Chaos League" by Cyanide Studios? They wanted to do a Blood Bowl game but couldn't afford the license, so they pretty much stole everything from it and made a game that was Blood Bowl in everything but name. Games Workshop, of course, took notice and sued them.
Now, when the time came for GW to actually do a Blood Bowl game years later, who did they go for to develop it..? Cyanide Studios, of course, who eventualy released the awesome Blood Bowl video game adaptation that came out a couple of years ago. So, by copying the license without permission and doing a good game based on it, they effectively proved themselves capable of doing a GW game themselves. And it worked!
Now, we all know that THQ, the holders of the Warhammer 40K license for video games, is in trouble, right? Could this be EA trying to make itself noticed by GW in a deliberate attempt to replicate for 40K what Cyanide Studios did for Blood Bowl?
Anyone remember what happened years ago with a little game called "Chaos League" by Cyanide Studios? They wanted to do a Blood Bowl game but couldn't afford the license, so they pretty much stole everything from it and made a game that was Blood Bowl in everything but name. Games Workshop, of course, took notice and sued them.
Now, when the time came for GW to actually do a Blood Bowl game years later, who did they go for to develop it..? Cyanide Studios, of course, who eventualy released the awesome Blood Bowl video game adaptation that came out a couple of years ago. So, by copying the license without permission and doing a good game based on it, they effectively proved themselves capable of doing a GW game themselves. And it worked!
Now, we all know that THQ, the holders of the Warhammer 40K license for video games, is in trouble, right? Could this be EA trying to make itself noticed by GW in a deliberate attempt to replicate for 40K what Cyanide Studios did for Blood Bowl?
The Leman Russ is a WW1 Tank with a turret on top. The Baneblade is an oversized Main Battle Tank Chassis with far too many guns and sponsons.GoaThief said: