Thedeadwarrior123 wrote:

Right... I am disappointing that big companies don't understand that fan games are just a game to appreciate their product... The game I will make will be of my own ideas.

Once Again, Dark saved the day.

Lol @_@

We kind of did saved you from Bankrupt, Street, Enough money to buy a membership, etc.

Now consider that since we saved you from thousands, maybe millions a dollar. It would be appreciated if you bought a membership(that is 10000 time less)!

Son, what you are doing (as you have been told many times) is using the idea, the IP, of someone else and you are "abusing" it towards your hackneyed will.

Would you like to know why the care and "don't understand"? Maybe, because of money transactions. I work at a place where I have to request copyright releases from people all the time if they are trying to purchase items they "make" that have a potential for copyright infringement. It "hurts" the copyright owners, and the business that hosts the infringer, if a monetary transaction takes place between the consumer (the player) and the hoster (BYOND essentially, not really the game owner). BYOND takes a cut of the money from subcriptions, in term they are making some profit off of what they really reaaaally do not own.

If the game in choice uses their own PayPal, well, PayPal takes a cut, so that could screw them over. But PayPal has the lawyers and ToS to say fuck that. However, if all the money goes to the person using the copyright material, that really leaves them liable for a good old legal gangbang.

But wait, there is more! What if they are not profiting off of the copyright material! Well, you are then misrepresenting the actual license holders by "appearing" to be part of their IP, even if you are a fan game. When some fan looks up "[x] online game" or whatever search terms they please, good old SEO is going to point them your way either at page 1, or page 10 if they care that much. And when they have a bad time playing your low-standard game it turns off their "series boner" and they don't like your representation. If they are that dense and think this is official, then they could send a complaint. Or I could send a complaint, but that would most likely get Tom in legal issues, not you (as much as I wish it so).

This is my BYOND game motto: If it isn't creative commons, get the rights or get the fuck out.

But I feel the middle of the motto just won't work because the average BYOND user can't pay the mass sum of money to obtain the rights, and then be scrutinized by the license holders to produce a game to -their- liking, not yours.

Hey asshole... 1 I've been informed of my error i apologized and corrected by deleting the project file. 2. thanks for the AP English class explanation of what I did wrong and how I could be, what did you call it, "Legally gangbaned". And 3 I have a motto: The later the preying wolf the liver the preyed sheep. Which means If I've been told already dont tell me later when i already know. Thanks

I'm sorry boo, I didn't read a damn thing in this thread other than your OP and the top post on this page. I figure you would still have a very base understanding. Especially after you type:

Thedeadwarrior123:

I am disappointing that big companies don't understand that fan games are just a game to appreciate their product.

I'll ignore "disappointing". But I will char down on your disappointment for not understanding why they don't "understand".

I should also like to inform you

1. The li tag isn't blocked.
2. This is an example.
3. Check out this automatic numbering!