I coudln't agree more. Like I said my brother and I had a talk about game
accessibility yesterday. We got to discussing old computer games lik
Gobblins and Pirates! both of which titles I would love to see made
accessible. And those are probably prime titles for remaking. And since
Pirates! was created by one guy if it was possible to contact him we might
be abl to get his blessing for creating, if not an exact clone, then at
least a game in the same style.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Copywrite and abandonware
Hi Dark,
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It seems to be an unfortunate truth that individually people are pretty
decent,
collectively they are vile!
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I agree. That seams to be a universal flaw of the human race. Especially,
in a ccorperate environment where very few people actually do all the
decision making.
I have to say between my communications with Lucas Licensing and my talks
with Sony Entertainment I have become totally disgusted and lost all
respect for big name corperations of any kind. Any time I have a valid
concern, issue, suggestion, etc I get blocked by some peon guarding the
gates to the castle. All they will say is thanks for your e-mail, phone
call, but we can't let you speak to so and so for such and such regulation
bla, bla, bla.
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This seems to absolutely hold true for game access. The larger the
company, the
less response we get, where as I've had some great conversations with solo
creators
or small groups of games about access issues.
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Been there done that. Main reason is major companies have hired a bunch of
flunkies to man the phones, e-mail, who's job must be to discurrage
contact with them. The minute you mention access issues with the large
companies they thank you for your suggestion and say whatever to get you
off the phone as soon as possible. The more honest ones come out and tell
you legally they can't take suggestions for their products and services
and give you the big kick in the pants to get lost.
In my experience smaller companies and definitely the open source comunity
are more willing to at least here you out. On Linux if i file a bug
someone looks into it fairly rapidly. If I make a suggestion someone on
the development team will state if it is possible, feasable, or at least
seriously consider my request. I don't feel major corperations do that
enough.
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