EA steals from Games Workshop
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Guh. Okay, now I need to change my pants.Soviet Heavy said:
Damn, that's a pretty model. Really makes me wish I could get into the game.
Heretics stealing the Imperium's holy war-machines?! They do not even acknowledge the Machine Spirit!!!
Righteous fury must be brought down upon this... EA, in the name of the God-Emperor!
Honestly though, I'm not all that surprised. Warhammer 40,000 has been around for 30 years now and just about every sci-fi and/or sci-fantasy setting has taken elements from it in one way or another. I mean, look at Starcraft, it's basically a re-skinned 40k game. Space Marines, people with jetpacks, big-ass tanks, the tyranid, a species of ancient, fruity space-psychics who have a splinter group of shadowy, emo space-psychics, they're all there. Hell, Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm is going to have a giant mech called a Warhound.
To be fair, 40k itself borrows heavily from many sources. Tolkien, various epic-fantasy stories, myths and legends from history, and so on. Even the Space Marines are basically just Heinlein's mobile infantry with less nukes snazzier-looking armor, chainswords and a dash of religious fanaticism.
Righteous fury must be brought down upon this... EA, in the name of the God-Emperor!
Honestly though, I'm not all that surprised. Warhammer 40,000 has been around for 30 years now and just about every sci-fi and/or sci-fantasy setting has taken elements from it in one way or another. I mean, look at Starcraft, it's basically a re-skinned 40k game. Space Marines, people with jetpacks, big-ass tanks, the tyranid, a species of ancient, fruity space-psychics who have a splinter group of shadowy, emo space-psychics, they're all there. Hell, Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm is going to have a giant mech called a Warhound.
To be fair, 40k itself borrows heavily from many sources. Tolkien, various epic-fantasy stories, myths and legends from history, and so on. Even the Space Marines are basically just Heinlein's mobile infantry with less nukes snazzier-looking armor, chainswords and a dash of religious fanaticism.
It's kinda funny how badly the people who frequent this site rage all over anything/everything EA does. I wonder how it would be if we did this for every game developer.
New thread incoming:
"Valve still hasn't released Half Life 3!"
"OMG Valve is still using the source engine instead of making a new one!"
Seriously, you people try too hard.
New thread incoming:
"Valve still hasn't released Half Life 3!"
"OMG Valve is still using the source engine instead of making a new one!"
Seriously, you people try too hard.
After looking at those pictures... I miss C&C95. Man things have changed.
OT: As previously stated by other posters, it's likely a design from an artist they outsourced to and no one green lighting the project was familiar with the source material.
OT: As previously stated by other posters, it's likely a design from an artist they outsourced to and no one green lighting the project was familiar with the source material.
I was about to...
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But honestly, in this case, I can't. Usually when someone claims some creator "stole" something from another, it's often just a case of them using similar tropes and designs. Like all creative endeavour.
But in this case... The flippin things looks exactly the same, there's just no excuse for it! It's not like it would be hard to create something more individual, EA. C&C's got a rather rich identity of its own you could scavenge ideas from.
http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/220/690/1324499197783.png
But honestly, in this case, I can't. Usually when someone claims some creator "stole" something from another, it's often just a case of them using similar tropes and designs. Like all creative endeavour.
But in this case... The flippin things looks exactly the same, there's just no excuse for it! It's not like it would be hard to create something more individual, EA. C&C's got a rather rich identity of its own you could scavenge ideas from.
obviously you don't understand the power of public relations. They're faking the support of an rights movement in order to either try and wash away the bad will they have earned recently or just make money off the free publicity saying thousands of gay rights supporters signing their petition would earn them. Petitions have no legal power, but public opinion or rather perceived public opinion can change the way people look at something. The same reason they paid people to rally against dante's inferno in order to drum up support for their product by portraying it as being attacked by zealots.ThriKreen said:
As for that not knowing, your talking about them as if they're pants on head retarded. Are you saying not just 1, but 2 complete copies slipped by their lawyers and what ever other departments they have to keep their money in the scrooge mcduck safe everyone imagines they have. To get into development is one thing, to get that far down the chain that their using it to show case the game would suggest gross incompetence, and while not impossible, would mean that more then just a few people would lose their jobs from the fall out from this.
And EA goes "Fuck this... buy games workshop, fire all the staff who oppose us and shut the rest of the company down."
Wouldn't surprise me
Wouldn't surprise me
I don't think EA has the money to buy Games Workshop. They're rich yes, but so is GW.Ashannon Blackthorn said:And EA goes "Fuck this... buy games workshop, fire all the staff who oppose us and shut the rest of the company down."
Wouldn't surprise me
Mate, don't give people ideas.Aeonknight said:
And anyway, you know that whenever Half Life 3 does come out this site will be awash with threads about how the ending is wrong or Gordon's beard isn't the same as in Half Life 1 so we should all boycott Valve until they change it.
I think youre underestimating the size difference between the video game and tabletop markets.Soviet Heavy said:
Obviously GW isnt so small that it would really be bought on just a whim like that, but EA's annual turnover is somewhere around 20 times bigger than GW's. I dont think theyd have too much trouble swallowing up GW is they decided to turn their attention to it.
Holy shit, that's just crazy. the point when I noticed that even the nuts and bolts on the outside armor are identical is just unforgivable.
Hey, I liked Dawn of War! It was the last time in like 6 years where Steve Bloomers was any good.daveman247 said:
Did GW properly buy the rights from Armourcast, or did they die out or go into limbo?
That's the funny thing about what Games Workshop did to Armourcast. If they didn't go through the proper channels, then EA could actually come out of this with Games Workshop, and to a lesser extent THQ.
That's the funny thing about what Games Workshop did to Armourcast. If they didn't go through the proper channels, then EA could actually come out of this with Games Workshop, and to a lesser extent THQ.
LOL!, LOOKS LIKE DEM NOBZ AT DA GAMEZ FACTORY ARE GANNA SQUISH DEM HUMIEZ WITH A ILLEGAL DEATHROLLA LAWCASE SUTE