lestatdark said:
Jumpin said:
lestatdark said:
As I'm playing Chrono Trigger for the bajillion time on my DS (pretty good port, especially when played DS style. The implementation of the Arena of Ages is pretty nifty too), it made me realize how much I still hate Square, in regards to CT.
Does anyone remember this?:
Damn you Square, damn you and your money grubbing ways, your hope/dreams crushing manipulations and heart-shattering crap ideas. Where was the remake that you promised? Oh right, we only deserve another damn port. We the fans that have put up with so much s*** from you in the last years, only got more of the same, because you a**holes can't seem to do a proper remake like this one. Oh yeah, because you can't f***** program and it's toooooo complicated to do a game isn't it?
Never mind that this resurrection project was being done by a small group of devoted fans, who could probably do a better job at remaking CT than you could ever do.
So yeah, F*** you Square >_>
/rant
|
Before dissing Square, why not consider their side of the story first. They're not protecting their intellectual property to be greedy; they're doing it because it is theirs. It has nothing to do with Square being bullies, but it is their legal obligation to defend their own trademarks, otherwise they lose them.
It would be foolish of a company to give up the trademarks associated with a multi-million dollar franchise they created.
|
Yet you've got Valve fully endorsing the Black Mesa mod that fully recreates Half-Life 1 with the most recent Source code and this is being done by an independent third party, 38 people collaboration.
Where does the line of protecting their own intellectual property and being greedy ends? Also, who can say if Square had endorsed this project as well, that wouldn't have had beneficial results for them in the end (like higher adoption rate for Chrono Trigger DS)?.
|
I'm sure they're's greed involved and i'm sure its most of it. As it's business, But I remember a quote of something from one of them like "the sales of the game ds game don't tell me you want a sequal/remake". But then again, FF7 sold a hell of a lot, and so did Advent Children and Crisis core so it's kinda a contradiction there.
From an artistic perspective... if I created somehting I wouldn't want anyone else touching it but that's just me. But, I'm not what this problem is aimed at as, I didn't like chrono trigger that much.
You can say, that it wouldn't hurt square-enix. But you couldn't say that it for sure wouldn't, it's there call. To think valve isn't greedy is ridiculous as well. you have to be greedy to some extent or you go out of business.
For example, they promised HL2 episodic content quickly but I think they'll just make what they promised into half life 3. But that's just me.
