Norman Rafferty ([info]normanrafferty) wrote,
@ 2009-05-19 16:29:00
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Entry tags:chrono trigger, haxx0r, imitation, quote for the day, square

Quote for the Day...
"[I] simply wonder why the people at Kajar didn't spend four years creating their own project instead of standing on the shoulders of someone else's work. ... If the answer is that they didn't have the inspiration or ability to create their own world, their own characters, their own art and their own assets, then I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing that they ultimately failed. In an industry already struggling with a crisis of creativity, why exactly are we championing anything less than originality again?"


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[info]ursulav
2009-05-20 02:41 pm UTC (link)
What irks me most about the fights in the comments is the people saying "Well, the problem is that IP is outdated and we should be allowed to do whatever we want to encourage creativity!"

Brrrr.

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[info]mongologue
2009-05-20 03:33 pm UTC (link)
The countertoken for "Why wouldn't you want to make original characters" is "Why do remakes and incredibly long-form serials happen?" We like Superman. We know who he is, and some comic book writers dream highly of telling his story. Some have to put him in alternate forms (Supreme, Hyperion, and dozens of others) to do so. Two, nearly three generations later people still want to tell what happens next to Superman.

Good characters are alluring and enduring, and sometimes, that's a greater thing than trying to make your own. So I don't expect they didn't have the creativity; they simply wanted to tell more of the story.

Now, that doesn't mean that they were anywhere in the intellectual property right, of course. Square Enix has to either defend their copyright.

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[info]hunter_green
2009-05-23 08:45 pm UTC (link)
I guess not every software company can be valve.

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