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Zenan Plains - Site Discussion => Chrono / Gameplay Casual Discussion => Topic started by: Dialga_Palkia on June 14, 2012, 02:59:17 am

Title: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: Dialga_Palkia on June 14, 2012, 02:59:17 am
We are one month away from the expiration date of Chrono Brake/Break for Japan; July 23, 2012.

Will Chrono ever see the light of day for a third series? Some say good things come in three's so who knows?

( Legends 3, Chrono 3, a game that deserves a sequel 3 ..... 2013? )
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: ZealKnight on June 14, 2012, 06:07:55 pm
Yeah like Portal 3, Half-Life 3, Team Fortress 3, and Final Fantasy XIII-3
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: HeadlessFritz on June 16, 2012, 05:07:11 pm
We should make a ceremony for CB's death.
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: Dialga_Palkia on July 17, 2012, 03:01:37 pm
I can't believe we're just one week away from the expiration date.
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: Satoh on July 17, 2012, 06:21:19 pm
Lets raise the necessary funds and buy the rights to the name before they can renew it.

Then we will own the future of Chrono.
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: rushingwind on July 18, 2012, 03:23:49 am
Lets raise the necessary funds and buy the rights to the name before they can renew it.

Then we will own the future of Chrono.

I support this idea! :)
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: Lennis on July 18, 2012, 07:04:47 am
Can we even do that?  It's one thing to purchase the rights to a name, but Square/Enix still owns the rights to the franchise.  Until that changes, or S/E has a change of heart about a sequel, this is all academic.   :(
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: Acacia Sgt on July 18, 2012, 02:49:48 pm
Yeah, even if we buy the name, we still can't do anything with it unless it's for an original creation. And Square-Enix will most likely buy the rights for Chrono *insert name here* to tease us further in the mean-time... okay, that may not happen. But so long they're not interested in making another game or don't sell it, the franchise will remain in hibernation.
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: Satoh on July 18, 2012, 04:03:52 pm
That's not the point. The point is to do more than simply act like mosquitoes with a bunch of pointless petitions they never take notice of.

They'll take notice of someone buying what has been their intellectual property for the past what, 10, almost 20 years now?.. right out from under their noses.
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: ZealKnight on July 18, 2012, 08:17:48 pm
That's not the point. The point is to do more than simply act like mosquitoes with a bunch of pointless petitions they never take notice of.

They'll take notice of someone buying what has been their intellectual property for the past what, 10, almost 20 years now?.. right out from under their noses.

Somehow I don't believe this. Japanese game developers appear to only speak in sales and price tags. From Capcom to SquareEnix. Nothing will send them a message other than money. I mean how long did it take capcom to make fighting games again? How about Megaman Legends 3? And how did they go about this, by milking them. Look at all the Street Fighter 4s they made. 4, super, arcade edition, and xTekken. Then they finally release MvC3 only to release Ultimate MvC3 six months later.
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: Satoh on July 19, 2012, 12:26:07 am
Yeah, I'll never get over the MML3 travesty... and honestly I think they only started on it to appease Inafune-san... when he left they cancelled it first thing... Japan's business industry has to be the closest thing to hell on earth.

still though, it's obvious they want the name for something, otherwise they wouldn't keep reserving it. If I can piss even ONE GUY in Squenix's dev office off, I want that chance.
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: chi_z on July 19, 2012, 06:10:07 pm
I don't see what the problem with acquiring the chrono brake name and making our own original game would be. We could plan a game that doesn't have so many loose ends as the chrono series, and have intermultiversal/dimensional/time travel heh heh. though that might be too close to the likeness or something to show my inferior knowledge of copyrights and shite  :oops:  :o  :(  :cry: god damn companies.
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: HeadlessFritz on July 19, 2012, 10:59:47 pm
Only 4 days, and the future refused to change.
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: Truthordeal on July 23, 2012, 02:26:16 am
Today's the day.
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: chi_z on July 24, 2012, 12:56:26 am
don't see anything showing they renewed it. also, isnt the 26th the day?
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: chi_z on July 27, 2012, 01:37:12 pm
alright, its now dead, the 27th has arrived and the 26th has passed. so long chrono brake

Is this image for realz? anyone know what it says? it looks like zeal, a dragonian building, and some indiscernable chracters.

(http://www.boomspeed.com/cyroxero/ChronoBreak.jpg)
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: Acacia Sgt on July 27, 2012, 06:24:22 pm
I can understand the Katakana, which of course helps so little for an actual translation.

I'd wonder, considering it says just Square on the bottom-right corner. Shouldn't it be Square-Enix?
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: ZealKnight on July 27, 2012, 08:15:30 pm
I remember this image. But I'm fairly certain it's fake. I remember some site proving what games those images came from. But this around 2000 or 2001 so it's very loose. Don't entirely trust me.
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: Vehek on July 27, 2012, 08:18:19 pm
According to tineye, an very similar image existed on http://trance14.hp.infoseek.co.jp/neta.htm. It's gone now, but I can view it via the Wayback Machine. I'm not sure what the page is about, but I think it might be about hoaxes, or at least expected games that didn't materialize.
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: FaustWolf on July 28, 2012, 12:40:02 am
Oh man, RPGamer's Chrono Break 2003 April Fools Day hoax  (http://www.rpgamer.com/games/chrono/break/break.html) totally needs to be recognized on this occasion. That Japanese image appears under "propaganda" in RPGamer's faux article, but I'm not sure whether it would have originated there or on a Japanese site beforehand.

They totally, totally had me for a few minutes back in 2003 despite the obvious Photoshopping. Ah, to be young and naive again...
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: chi_z on July 28, 2012, 03:05:17 pm
haha I remember those now, wow it looks so badly done now!
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: X4220 on August 03, 2012, 07:27:32 am
I am saddened that gaming journalist didn't bother to investigate what happened with Chrono franchise.Is really that hard to ask Kato what he wanted to do in CB, to ask Tanaka and other SE executives about ''politics involved with the series''.
Just knowing the truth would be big relief for me....
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: TheMage on August 04, 2012, 12:19:03 am
Aw, this makes me sad. Hey maybe since its met its expiration date something out of the blue might happen. Right? right? Like another company which houses most of the creators can pick it up, right? (crosses fingers)

Yeah I live in a dream world.
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: ZealKnight on August 04, 2012, 02:40:32 am
Aw, this makes me sad. Hey maybe since its met its expiration date something out of the blue might happen. Right? right? Like another company which houses most of the creators can pick it up, right? (crosses fingers)

Yeah I live in a dream world.

Let's put it this way. There's always a chance the story has gone through enough revisions that it wouldn't called Chrono Brake/Break anymore anyway.
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: Mr Bekkler on August 04, 2012, 03:11:31 am
Let's put it this way. There's always a chance the story has gone through enough revisions that it wouldn't called Chrono Brake/Break anymore anyway.

If that were the case, I'd prefer just to hear the original idea.
Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: testing123 on August 04, 2012, 09:07:11 am
Anyone know what the deal is with the guy squatting on the domain name of chronobreak.com? It's just a redirect to some terrible blog about "sudermania."

Godaddy says:

Registrant:
none

17 Sundown Way SE
Calgary, Alberta T2X3B8
Canada

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: CHRONOBREAK.COM
Created on: 28-Jan-02
Expires on: 28-Jan-14
Last Updated on: 11-Jan-12

Administrative Contact:
Suderman, Andrew suderdude@hotmail.com
none
17 Sundown Way SE
Calgary, Alberta T2X3B8
Canada
4032564828

Technical Contact:
Suderman, Andrew suderdude@hotmail.com
none
17 Sundown Way SE
Calgary, Alberta T2X3B8
Canada
4032564828

Title: Re: If I am correct ( Chrono Brake/ Break expiration date)
Post by: alfadorredux on August 04, 2012, 08:38:26 pm
Probably a garden-variety domain squatter (the fact that he has it redirected to somewhere utterly irrelevant makes it unlikely that he's anything else, in fact).