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Reply #1365 on: January 20, 2014, 04:52:09 PM

Lineage 1.

brb gonna go die

Goddamn Korea.
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Reply #1366 on: January 20, 2014, 05:02:58 PM

But SWTOR is a ~failure~!

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Reply #1367 on: January 21, 2014, 01:44:14 AM


f2p at this level is mostly a fanboy indicator I guess... thus korea and star wars.

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Reply #1368 on: January 21, 2014, 09:28:55 AM

Lineage 1.

brb gonna go die

Goddamn Korea.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Koreans are FUCKING CRAZY.

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Reply #1369 on: January 22, 2014, 08:11:59 AM

Candy Crush Saga Makers Go After The Banner Saga. For Real.

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Not content with trying to own the word "Candy", King.com, the makers of Candy Crush Saga, also want to own the word "Saga". So they've have taken legal action against strategy game The Banner Saga.

On December 27, 2013, King.com filed a "Notice of Opposition" with the US Patent and Trademark Office. It says that because King has 13 trademarks with the word "saga" in them, Stoic's colourful strategy game isn't allowed to use the word.




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Reply #1370 on: January 22, 2014, 08:20:58 AM

King, who no one really cared about, just became Villain #1. Well done, morons.
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Reply #1371 on: January 22, 2014, 08:27:55 AM

They'll lose.

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Reply #1372 on: January 22, 2014, 08:36:29 AM

Hopefully someone goes after them and soaks up all their wonderful profits in litigation. 
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Reply #1373 on: January 22, 2014, 08:43:24 AM

Rumor is they tried to copyright the word "candy" recently. Not sure if true...

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Reply #1374 on: January 22, 2014, 08:46:32 AM

Isn't Candy Crush Saga a Bejeweled Clone?

I like the smell of Hypocrisy in the morning. Guess I have to tell my Candy Crush Saga playing relatives they should find another Bejeweled Clone to play instead of this.

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Reply #1375 on: January 22, 2014, 08:53:56 AM

Rumor is they tried to copyright the word "candy" recently. Not sure if true...

They trademarked it. It was approved a week ago.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2014/01/20/candy-crush-saga-has-trademarked-candy-and-apples-app-store-is-helping-enforce-it/
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Reply #1376 on: January 22, 2014, 08:56:47 AM

I'm no lawyer but I didn't think you could trademark a single word that has already existed for eons? I mean if I make up a word, maybe it's different, but saga is as old as the actual meaning.

I understand trademarking phrases like your product name "Candy Crush", but a word? That seems overstepping.

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Reply #1377 on: January 22, 2014, 08:59:55 AM

I think it only applies to games and clothing. I don't know either but I guess that would be the only place it is enforceable?
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Reply #1378 on: January 22, 2014, 09:01:25 AM

I'm no lawyer but I didn't think you could trademark a single word that has already existed for eons? I mean if I make up a word, maybe it's different, but saga is as old as the actual meaning.

I understand trademarking phrases like your product name "Candy Crush", but a word? That seems overstepping.

Ask Tim Langdell, I guess.  It took quite a while for EA to finally smack him down.

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Reply #1379 on: January 22, 2014, 11:05:16 AM

This pretty much cements my decision to buy Banner Saga on Friday.

Fuck trolls.

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Reply #1380 on: January 22, 2014, 11:19:51 AM

I won't be buying Banner Saga until it's actually complete. Apparently it's episodic and just basically ends partway through, despite the Steam Store page saying nothing about it being episodic content.

I *will* be telling my Candy Crush playing relatives/friends to stop supporting King though.

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Reply #1381 on: January 22, 2014, 11:40:00 AM

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Reply #1382 on: January 22, 2014, 07:38:37 PM

This pretty much cements my decision to buy Banner Saga on Friday.

Fuck trolls.

Agree. I hope their suing bonanza works out as well as SCO's "We own UNIX!" crusade.  Oh ho ho ho. Reallllly?

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Reply #1383 on: January 24, 2014, 03:53:29 PM

Napoleonic Age of Sail sims are about as niche as you can get, but this one is quite easy on the eyes.

http://www.navalaction.com/

(Seen at RPS.)

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Reply #1384 on: January 25, 2014, 06:26:35 AM

This makes me a bit desperate for the Southpark Game.

I hope it's not a piece of shit.

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Reply #1385 on: January 25, 2014, 01:22:03 PM

Jazzpunk? (With Hunter S. Thompson, apparently)

Also, coming to Steam February 7th.

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Reply #1386 on: January 28, 2014, 09:36:40 AM


Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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Reply #1387 on: January 28, 2014, 10:04:23 AM

I saw that over the weekend and it made me sick.  I'm so tired of the bastardization of LotR.  This is a bit over the top in that regard.
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Reply #1388 on: January 28, 2014, 10:29:10 AM


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Reply #1389 on: January 28, 2014, 12:40:25 PM

Hm. I thought it looked pretty awesome and I pretty much ignore the LotR stuff (and have no interest in the Hobbit movie).
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Reply #1390 on: January 28, 2014, 01:33:52 PM

I would take a serious look at playing any game with an AC/Arkham combat system.  Looks like they even threw in a little Dishonored.

I don't really care that much about the purity of Tolkien or whatnot.
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Reply #1391 on: January 28, 2014, 01:44:20 PM

It looked cool, but it would suit Witcher better methinks.

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Reply #1392 on: January 28, 2014, 05:33:01 PM

Why would you make a game like that and saddle it with the LOTR IP?

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Reply #1393 on: January 28, 2014, 07:23:49 PM

Why would you make a game like that and saddle it with the LOTR IP?

I'm not sure they are saddled by much. It already looks like a pretty big departure from standard Tolkien lore.
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Reply #1394 on: January 28, 2014, 11:20:51 PM

I haven't played any of the AC or Batman games for a long time.  This looks like something I'd actually enjoy playing.  The IP is just flavor and makes no difference to me.

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Reply #1395 on: January 29, 2014, 01:33:57 AM

Why would you make a game like that and saddle it with the LOTR IP?

Because the LOTR IP to most people is the Peter Jackson movies and that doesn't really seem like a particularly constricting framework to work in. Certainly if they're going to compete with Assassin's Creed even LOTR movie continuity fanfic will probably still make for a better story than what the AC games have been doing.
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Reply #1396 on: January 29, 2014, 02:30:49 AM

"Intellectual despair", says J.R.R. Tolkien's son.

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Reply #1397 on: January 29, 2014, 03:32:13 AM

"Intellectual despair", says J.R.R. Tolkien's son.

That's fine. I'll take the "action movie for young people aged 15 to 25" over 12 volumes of history lessons about a fictional world. Both options are filled with a bunch of overindulgent wankery but at least I can make it through the movies.
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Reply #1398 on: January 29, 2014, 03:36:05 AM

Reminds me of Dante's Inferno. I vote no.

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Reply #1399 on: January 29, 2014, 06:10:48 AM

Am I the only one who is going to comment on the name Ratbag?  Ratbag the Meat Hoarder.  It appears they've outsourced their orc-naming work to offshore kindergartners.

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