games workshop sues fansite ...
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anyone else seen this:
http://www.bluesnews.com/s/110076/games-workshop-sues-warhammer-fan-site
Basically games workshop is suing Curse for hosting a warhammer fansite because they make money from the adds that they put on there... wow... who are these people and where do they come from?
http://www.bluesnews.com/s/110076/games-workshop-sues-warhammer-fan-site
Basically games workshop is suing Curse for hosting a warhammer fansite because they make money from the adds that they put on there... wow... who are these people and where do they come from?
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And doing it...in spite of the apparent fact, that Games Workshop employees have registered and provided interviews to the very same fansite in years prior?
...I must be missing something.
As far as it being the largest gathering of fans GW has, I doubt that, the reaction the WHA forum goers had to the announcement that WHA would start covering news about the tabletop game was fairly negative. It's the largest gathering of Warhammer Online fans, true, and I'm sure Mythic isn't happy about the lawsuit but they don't have a say.
Difference is like 5% of polycounters actually pay for their autodesk products :P
Wow, a lot of people have talked about my games on sites with ads. I gotta lock this shit down! Screw you Kotaku, I want my royalties!
This is going to be the worst precedent the internet has ever faced if GW wins.
Edit: Wanted to clarify that i am not blaming Mythic for the lawsuit i know its GW and not Mythic that is suing! Just stating that these forums are a necessity to keep the WAR community alive.
It seems the thing to do these days. I liked how Activision sacked the two IW leads after they made the best selling game of all time, grossing over a billion dollars.
There are reasons given in both cases, but in both cases the suers are just shooting themselves in the foot, IMO.
EA?
Dunno how EA ended up there.
It's ok I knew what you meant
I'm not for either side honestly. I think it's stupid that it's even come to such non-sense in the first place where everything is immediately a lawsuit without any discussion. I want to know did they even ask them to take the site down? Since they haven't posted a statement from GW yet.
The worst part is, they're located in England. This country just has a suing effect on people.
Oh really? I didn't even check. Damn... I guess I just assumed lmao.
actually, warhammer started out as a set of books, quite well know... written by steve jackson and ian livingstone.
they were called the "fighting fantasy" books, warlock of firetop mountain etc...
anywho, those books were loosely based on dungeons and dragons, they then went on to create hero quest, moving to a D6 based system (from D&D's D20 system). this evolved further into warhammer quest.
players then asked what it would be like to see the underworld hordes of warhammer quest on a larger scale, and warhammer was born. each race also has a rough parallel to things in the human world, largely racist, too.
the empire are germans
brittonians are french
elves are americans
greenskins are football hooligans from england (well, all over really...)
skaven are nazis
dwarves are scottish
chaos are skandinavian (viking)
edit:
http://www.golden-throne.com/ <--- epic web comic made by an ex gw employee. also slapped with some cease and decists by GW.
I was actually going to mention that about the cost. If they really want to compete in a market that isn't exactly mainstream, meaning tabletop games, they really should consider dropping prices on some of that stuff. While I was at Raven in Madison I went with a few friends to a GW based shop and the models were so expensive just to start a simple army. We played out a scenario between 4 people and half of the armies were cardboard shit we had to make because the pieces cost too damn much. And this is from 3-4 people (my friends) that had been buying and collecting the Warhammer armies for years, and they barely had enough pieces. I think my roommate actually had spent several hundreds over the course of the last few years. I think the largest army we had was Skaven... and that's only because they are rats and theres like 30 of them to a pack lmao...
I understand the price for manufacture since the pieces use to be metal diecast.... but now they are mostly plastic and still cost too much imo. Our armies looked like frankenstein's army or something horrific... just trying to make units unique we were buying cheap ass starter units and splicing them together and adding our own artistic touch to make them look like the 90$ hero units.
Uh?
Warhammer predated Heroquest by about a decade.
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean, I've done the cardboard cut out thing as well. Lucky for me I have a friend I bought a cheap army from, but the guy is rich, he has 60 to 70 units of every army. Not the best thing to spend all that money in my opinion, but oh well lol.
ouch, my bad. that came from a local GW employee too lol.
that said, i should have known better, after playing the games this long =/
sorry gir but I would ignore the staffer that spun you that tale....dont retail get the induction up at HQ anymore.....I remember being bored sensless by the company history for a good few hours back when I became a staff member....bah...kids today
GW have been suing everything and everyone on the net for a few years now, it seems quite seasonal..around the start of each business year they shoot themselves in the foot over IP issues. Odd though that they would go after a fan site and let this outfit continue http://chapterhousestudios.com/webshop/
I will never really understand GW Legals mindset. :poly142: