Re: [HoE] Year of the Copyright Infringement [OT]

[Prince Nightchilde <nghtchld@applink.net>]

> I think during the last decade the RPG industry has had a lot of success
> dispelling the myth that they directly "compete" with one another.  I for one
> am very very happy that most companies are open to crossovers.  Gamers have
> their favorites, of course, but ALL gamers play a HUGE number fo games, and
> *in general* they buy games from a lot of different companies.  I *like* this
> atmosphere of cooperation between companies, I think it makes them all a lot
> stronger and a lot more creative.

Amen, brother!  Not to mention the fact that, even if they could win, it
would be a HUGE waste of time, money and manpower that could be spent
better on developing and producing more game stuff.  

I mean, why waste all that on a minor point of contention.  Who REALLY
cares?  It all harkens back to the Aeon/Trinity lawsuit when Aeon (still
refuse to call it Trinity) came out.  Completely assanine and a total
waste of time for a minor, useless point that caused WW no end of
trouble.  Same thing with Nightspawn for Palladium Fantasy.  Todd
MacFarlane forced them to change the name to Nightbane because some bug
crawled up his butt about the word "spawn."

Marshal "Who cares?!?!" Nightchilde