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Darkness Beyond Time - Dead Project Discussion / Re: Crimson Echoes leaked

« on: February 10, 2011, 01:19:01 am »

I agree, the monster HP is way too high. I don't mind the high attack strength, but it gets really tedious fighting because monsters have as much HP as bosses in the original.

Also, not enough bosses :p

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Darkness Beyond Time - Dead Project Discussion / Re: Crimson Echoes leaked

« on: January 19, 2011, 03:59:45 am »

Assuming Square Enix even gives a damn anymore.

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Chrono / Gameplay Casual Discussion / Re: As May 8th Approaches...

« on: May 09, 2010, 12:30:40 pm »

I just don't know what was so special about the beta that if it leaked, Square would automatically nail your asses, while they did nothing about the alpha that got leaked. Think Square still has lawyers checking the torrents every day?

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Chrono / Gameplay Casual Discussion / Re: As May 8th Approaches...

« on: May 05, 2010, 05:55:54 pm »

If Square Enix was obligated to crush Crimson Echoes, then I guess I should get working on my for-profit Super Mario World sequel now. I mean, there's hundreds of Mario ROM hacks floating around freely on the internet, so Nintendo's lost their rights to Mario now, right?

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Site Updates / Re: C&D: Director's Response

« on: October 30, 2009, 11:30:19 pm »

If I was a good enough hacker to be involved with Flames of Eternity, I'd be working on reviving Playable Schala right now, not Crimson Echoes.

Oh, and you people would have hundreds of Schala nude sprites to enjoy.

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Site Updates / Re: C&D: Director's Response

« on: October 30, 2009, 10:01:21 pm »

Even so, now with this newfound knowledge of copyright laws on intellectual property, what's stopping us from giving it another shot?  Is it because it might take us another five years to do so, and Squeenix will be waiting in the shadows, and it'll be Deja Vu all over again?

If you want to do a fan-made Chrono game or a ROM hack independent of the Compendium, and you've got either the resources to hide your ass or the balls to stand up to any C+D letters you get, then by all means do it Just don't get the Compendium involved...

So that's it?  Let the 4channers and Something Awfuls remake something Kajar Labs (not the Compendium) put so much time and effort into butcher it beyond words?

Who knows?  Maybe they'll get a C&D letter from Squeenix and take it up their collective butts.

I doubt these guys will butcher it, they're trying as hard as they can to replicate Crimson Echoes as it could've been. I also doubt a C+D will stop them, as they're much deeper underground than the CE team ever was and are only talking about their efforts on the shadiest of channels.

Maybe. At least if they do, no one from the Compendium's head will roll as a result.

If Square's vindictive enough they might come after the Compendium even if it's clear the Compendium wasn't involved, though I hope that wouldn't happen.

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Site Updates / Re: C&D: Director's Response

« on: October 21, 2009, 03:55:19 am »

Can we even do that?  You know, send the 4channers a C&D letter?

They would just laugh, wipe their asses with the letter, and send back a picture of the poop-stained letter.

Trust me, the threat of lawsuits means nothing to them. Maybe to one of them, but to the collective, no.

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Site Updates / Re: C&D: Director's Response

« on: October 21, 2009, 12:00:50 am »

Only bad thing would be is if they totally butcher the game (though it can't be much more of a butchery than the leaked alpha), desecrating the CE team's work. Or if Square decided to sue the CE team over this other team's completion of the alpha

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Site Updates / Re: C&D: Director's Response

« on: October 20, 2009, 09:46:02 pm »

Well, better them than the CE team.

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Site Updates / Re: C&D: Director's Response

« on: October 20, 2009, 09:10:37 pm »

Squeenix may well track them down, but there are people on the internet who are reckless enough to risk extreme legal ramifications for what they do, and a lot of 4channers fit into that description.

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Site Updates / Re: C&D: Director's Response

« on: October 20, 2009, 08:57:48 pm »

Considering they're members of 4chan's video game board, that makes them part of the Anonymous collective, the same group of people that staged the massive Scientology protests and successfully trolled Oprah on her show.

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Site Updates / Re: C&D: Director's Response

« on: October 20, 2009, 08:34:28 pm »

The Flames of Eternity guys.

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Site Updates / Re: C&D: Director's Response

« on: October 20, 2009, 07:03:05 pm »

I dunno. I mean these are the same people who stood up to Scientology (an organization even more litigious than Square-Enix) and got Oprah to say "9000 penises" on national television. If anyone can bring a completed CE to fruition, it's them.

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Site Updates / Re: C&D: Director's Response

« on: October 20, 2009, 04:24:20 pm »

It isn't/won't be/never was finished.

Not by the original CE team, anyway.

Keep in mind that if any large corporation were human, it would be considered psychotic.
Squeenix will cheerfully lie, cheat and steal to do what its executives have been taught is
in the corporation's best interests: holding on to property at all costs. It is not
sane behaviour, and the only way to argue with it is in court.

Corporations in this country have basically taken the Ayn Rand stance, as in, "if the people stop sucking our dicks, we'll take our ball and go home". Hell, they even have half the country convinced that it's their "Christian duty" to let the corporations keep doing their merry thing. So the laws won't ever change unless there's a massive popular revolution.

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Site Updates / Re: C&D: Director's Response

« on: October 19, 2009, 07:11:35 pm »

They didn't have the time to go to court and fight it, though. Plus, they weren't thinking about if they won, they were thinking about if they lost (I don't think they would, but I'm not the one whose butt would be on the line).