As they stand to not make a profit from this i would think that the WB would welcome the free fanfare / Advertisement to one of there movies.
As far as I'm concerned, Fox did that when making the horrendous AVP movie and its sequel. Too bad they don't look at it that way.It the Xen Project ends up sucking, a lot of (ignorant) people will have negative emotions towards the Aliens IP, which may be free advertisement, but obviously not the advertisement the IP holder wants.
The mod team should probably save their time and effort until they can talk to someone in Fox's legal. Considering Fox's past, you probably won't get far - but you should have thought that in the first place.
I guess you'd be the first one to care about it, if you were the one who invented that universe, and someone else ripped it off to build a mod, for a game that you don't even support, and don't get any money on, and could possibly damage your ip in his total concept, even if it didn't take a potential customer base away from your official releasesWho cares if they make a MOD based off Alien. It sounds good..
Because while they may be more creative (something I'd argue given that they're ripping off someone else's IP) they also are inherently lazy....
Mod teams are obviously more creative than random criticasters, so how come so many mod teams decide to build on existing content considering there are so many ideas out there?
Hey I have this great idea ... once this is released I will copy and rename it and then release it as something I made myself.
Since the names have changed they can't touch me.
I won't contact the authors because I'm not doing it for profit and it therefore won't them.
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(it can't possibly piss off the mod-team, since they're doing the same to Fox/WB/whatever ... )
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well good jafo, you can,
always if you made the models, the code, the animations, the artwork, and everithing yourself,
because they arent copypasting the assets from any existing game
always if you made the models, the code, the animations, the artwork, and everithing yourself,
because they arent copypasting the assets from any existing game
They might not for the most part, but if they wanted to, they could. I think you'll find Lucasarts to be a fairly lenient company in that respect, but many others aren't.Let's just say it's a fan fiction like any other. Adding new stuff to an existing universe.
Does people making Star Wars fan fiction get slapped because they ripp off Lucas work ? I don't think so.
I think you'll find most people here appreciate that, just that I guess there's a feeling that any hope of seeing something good come from this could be wiped out on a whim by FOX and it'd be a real shame to see all this hard work come to nothing.We are Aliens fans, we already got a job, some of us in the game industry, and all we want to do is a fun game based on this background that we love, nothing more.
But that doesn't mean the result won't be fun--nor that the character concepts are the only work that goes into a mod. I think accusations of laziness are coming too soon The work of modeling, texturing and programming a mod, including audio and working out the game play, is not merely "renaming."
He works for gearbox. So you should have taken that comment as: They are no competition.