Garcian Smith said:
S-E doesn't own the rights to the "Xeno-" line of games anymore, and I believe Parasite Eve 3 was confirmed for mobile phones or something like that. |
Lawls. Yes they still do. That's why monolith couldn't use any direct references to Xenogears in any of the Xenosaga games (characters and story are all SE property). That's why everyone (including Tetsuya Takahashi) calls Xenosaga the "spiritual" successor to xenogears, he also refered to the developement of Xenosaga to "starting from scratch". On a financial standpoint it would have been impossible for Monolith to buy out the Xenogears IP from Squaresoft when they left, they (monolith) don't have the money to pry the Xenogears IP from big square enix. Also, "Xeno-" cannot be copyrighted by anyone and it isn't, S-E owns the IP of Xenogears and Monolith Soft (which is working under Nintendo) owns the IP of Xenosaga, If a company came out and made a game called "Xenophobe" or "Xenohomo" neither S-E or Monolith can do anything about it unless they blatantly/directly use the same exact characters and story line. Using Parodies of the characters are acceptable if done very carefully and that is exactly what Takahashi did in Xenosaga (he admitted this himself before xenosaga was ever released) inorder to prevent Square from sueing him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenogears
http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/rpg/xenosaga/news.html?sid=2823598&page=2&q=&q=&q=&q=














