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Kugyou
Katori Shintaro!
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 Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 12:55 pm Post subject: |
| Daijaga wrote: | | I jus twish the root underlying problem would go away. People that was to "0wz" and game instead of play it and enjoy the journey, wonders, community and sense of accomplishment in doing so. *sigh* Idealistic gamer much? Im raisin my kid to play video games right! |
Then again, this is WoW we're talking about - where apparently the definition of "RolePlay" on the RP servers is predominantly "Hot Action while waiting for respawn". |
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Godwyn
Senior Otaku
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| Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 3:04 pm Post subject: |
Seems to me you just play on the wrong server me thinks. Unless you are enjoying that "hot action"  Seriously, if anyone is unhappy with their role play in WoW, come join Discord on Maelstrom. Shameless guild spamming, check. |
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Kugyou
Katori Shintaro!
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| Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 3:12 pm Post subject: |
I'ss diclaim my above post - I don't play WoW. I just have seen too many logs from RP servers from my friends that do - some are like me and play females because they don't like the way the male characters look, and get propositioned while LFG. On PvP and RP servers alike. Then again, I still play too much GuildWars to join another MMO. |
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Kugyou
Katori Shintaro!
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| Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 6:06 am Post subject: |
Pardon the bit of thread necromancy, but for some reason I was re-reading this and took another gander at Kopp's guide sale site. Any guesses as to which Georgia area code graced my eyes?
The beloved 404. |
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Shino
Fade into this fantasy, caught in the web of time
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:27 am Post subject: |
That's interesting... especially since I was going to raise this thread due to new news about the case being dropped...
Good timing.
| Gamespot wrote: | Blizzard drops WOW gold-farming guide suit
Publisher had stated intent to sue Florida man for selling how-to manual for MMORPG on eBay.
By Anne Broache, News.com
Posted Jun 9, 2006 11:52 am PT
A Florida man who claimed he'd been unlawfully blocked from selling copies of his unofficial World of Warcraft guide by the wildly popular game's maker can resume his sales, owing to an out-of-court settlement reached Friday.
Brian Kopp, 24, had filed suit in March against California-based Blizzard Entertainment, parent company Vivendi, and the Entertainment Software Association. The complaint alleged that those organizations were wrong to order eBay to terminate auctions of his book The Ultimate World of Warcraft Leveling & Gold Guide, of which he had sold hundreds of copies since last August at about $15 apiece.
Alleging the book violated intellectual-property laws, Blizzard, Vivendi, and the ESA sent repeated take-down notices, provided for by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, to eBay. The auction giant's general policy is to halt auctions when it receives such notices and to suspend a user's account after it racks up a certain number of warnings.
Kopp routinely filed counternotices protesting the claims, according to his original court complaint in California federal court. Because the companies never responded to those documents, eBay was free to reinstate Kopp's auctions, which it did. But the video game industry continued to issue take-down notices, the number of which grew high enough that eBay was forced to suspend Kopp's accounts under multiple usernames.
"It's pretty much the equivalent of showing up at your store one morning and finding your goods on the curb with nothing you can do about it," said Greg Beck, an attorney representing Kopp on behalf of advocacy group Public Citizen. "They get so many notices of claimed infringement that they can't investigate all claims."
The parties also threatened copyright and trademark infringement action against Kopp, but he argued the book was in the clear because it presented a disclaimer on its first page about its unauthorized nature, contained no copyrighted text or storylines, and, though it did use selected screen shots downloaded from a site unaffiliated with the video game's makers, those uses were "fair."
The terms of the settlement do not provide for monetary compensation for Kopp, which he had originally sought. Instead, the companies agreed to withdraw their previous take-down notices and to drop their infringement claims. They also said they'd refrain from filing any future take-down notices against the same items Kopp had already disputed through counternotices.
Kopp, for his part, agreed to retain the book's disclaimers about its unofficial nature and said he wouldn't include links or instructions on how to locate "cheats" in the game.
Representatives from the video game industry were not immediately available for comment. |
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Katori Shintaro!
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:09 am Post subject: |
I read that just a little bit ago but hadn't gotten around to posting it. Now it makes me wonder how this guide is supposedly worth any amount of money...also how peple are going to reconcile the statements made on the original site (the mention of video and sound clips) with what is now known to be the non-text content of this guide (screenshots from a Blizzard-affiliated site, not directly from his own experience with the game). It kind of turns the whole thing into little more than a high-priced FAQ compilation. |
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