The Planet's Name is a Rip-off

[PlasticGEAR]

the Planet is PlanetSide is a total Rip-off of the planet in the Movie "Dune". The whole movie revols around a planet nicknamed "DUNE", the real name of the planet is Arrakis. Which is pronounced almost exactly the same as the planet, Auraxis of Planetside. Planetside is slowly dimming away from Genius. THEY NEED A NEW NAME FOR THE PLANET OR THEY BETTER GET SUED. Go Watch Dune its an old movie and it shouldn't cost you much, it fairly long and it is also a fairly good movie. it very strange.

[JohnClark]

It'd be tough to sue someone because the name of the planet in their videogame sounds like the name of a planet in your movie. In fact, I'd say it'd be impossible.

[skin]

ehhhh... noone is gonna sue sony and/oore verant over a movie whos last saving grace was the sand worms... :P ;)

[Kaikou]

^^^ he is right...

if someone were to make a carbonated softdrink called koke, it'd be perfectly legal

[PlasticGEAR]

if you watch the movie, and then listen to the ACN radio Planetside thingy you will see they sound EXACTLY the same. Just spelled different. It still a complete rip-off even if it wasn't intended

[Unknown]

First, Dune was a book (and series of books, 6 of em total, I've read 'em all :D) before it was a movie. Second, AGN (not ACN) is NOT from Sony!!! It was done soley by PS-U. Just because he pronounced it that way doesn't make it the "official" pronunciation. That's not how I'm going to pronounce it. In my opinion, it's pronounced Araksis (as in axe) not Arrakkis, and Au doesn't necessarily make an A sound, it might be pronounced like "Aura", Oaraksis? Or like Australia, Ahraksis?

It's all a matter of perspective.

[Doobz]

i dont really think that many ppl care...

[Validuz]

Originally posted by PlasticGEAR
the Planet is PlanetSide is a total Rip-off of the planet in the Movie "Dune". The whole movie revols around a planet nicknamed "DUNE", the real name of the planet is Arrakis. Which is pronounced almost exactly the same as the planet, Auraxis of Planetside. Planetside is slowly dimming away from Genius. THEY NEED A NEW NAME FOR THE PLANET OR THEY BETTER GET SUED. Go Watch Dune its an old movie and it shouldn't cost you much, it fairly long and it is also a fairly good movie. it very strange.


Hahahahaha, yea I'd like to see that... the makers of Dune suing SONY for something they said CLOSE in the movie that has absolutely NO trademarks...

yea, whew..... thanks for the laugh bro

[Vimp]

They shouldn't be prenounced the same even if they have been. Auraxis I believe is prenounced (r-ax-es) and Arrakis is (a-rak-iss).
Not spelt the same and not prenounced the same. However Arrakis could be (ar-ak-iss) and Auraxis maybe (a-rax-es). Where ever the sylabol is put the ending is different still, even if close.

[Validuz]

pffft....

It doesnt even matter if its the EXACT SAME WORD, there's no trademark on it...

[afex]

when you found out the planets name in your other thread asking about it, it didn't need another one with your opinion on it.

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[Coliostro]

Originally posted by afex
when you found out the planets name in your other thread asking about it, it didn't need another one with your opinion on it.

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:stupid:

This whole things is just silly. Why did anyone respond to this thread in the first place? SHEEP!!!! WE'RE ALL SHEEP!!! even me Oh well. "baaa"

[Navaron]

NEWSFLASH - - Dune sucked and no one cares about it anymore.

[Cuthbert]

The film(s) sucked, but the books are lots of fun. I don't think it would affect the game in a negative way at all if they did borrow more ideas from dune.

But this rubbish about the name of the planet is pretty stupid :)

[WhiteSun]

Originally posted by PlasticGEAR
THEY NEED A NEW NAME FOR THE PLANET OR THEY BETTER GET SUED.

I wonder if PlasticGEAR is on to something. I mean, it's entirely possible that a Dune fan sitting in his basement pronouncing words is on to something that Sony's (who is on course to profit 270,000,000,000 yen for the year ending 03/2003) legal team didn't consider when they checked off on the names involved in this game.

[Navaron]

I doubt it. Sounds like a nerd with too much free time. Everything in the sci fi world and videogames sounds the same. After a while the sounds of the names are going to overlap. There's nothing new under the sun.

[Airlift]

http://orbitalstrike.com//images/comicbookguy_wpe.gif

[Navaron]

:stupid: :rofl: :rofl:

[Zatrais]

Arrakis sounds like Auraxis? not to me *shrug*

[Ahemuro]

Originally posted by PlasticGEAR
the Planet is PlanetSide is a total Rip-off of the planet in the Movie "Dune". The whole movie revols around a planet nicknamed "DUNE", the real name of the planet is Arrakis. Which is pronounced almost exactly the same as the planet, Auraxis of Planetside. Planetside is slowly dimming away from Genius. THEY NEED A NEW NAME FOR THE PLANET OR THEY BETTER GET SUED. Go Watch Dune its an old movie and it shouldn't cost you much, it fairly long and it is also a fairly good movie. it very strange.

You might also want to try the book.

[Yuyi]

/agree with Airlifts img :D

[SmokeJumper]

The Dune series of books is one of my favorite, and most dog-eared, of all my personal collection of books. I've reread each of the six existing books (and the three "prequel" books written by his son) at least twice, and most of them more like five times each. I look forward to the day that his son feels confident enough to finish the "Chapterhouse/Heretics" trilogy, as he plans to do.

On the otherhand, Auraxis and Arrakis have NOTHING to do with each other, despite being similar in name structure.

Auraxis is a world with multiple terrain types, lots of water, and no sand worms. Arrakis is the home of the Fremen, Shai-Halud (sp?) and is arid as all get out. Despite the fact that the pronounciation is similar (oar-axe-is (PS) vs. air-uh-kiss or uh-rack-sis (Dune)) there are no other similiarities.

So, in otherwords, I humbly suggest you chase conspiracies elsewhere. There are none here.

[Blitzkrieg]

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[Marsman]

Thanks for the post Smokejumper. I also am a hugh fan of Dune and I must admit I probably mis-pronounced the name a couple of times due to that fact. I would like to again point out that any pronouciations made in the AGN recording are purely my own and do not reflect the views or opinions of SOE in any way. So please don't flame Sony for anything said in the AGN recording. It is a work of fiction for entertainment purposes only. :)

[Hamma]

/me starts including disclaimers at the bottom of all AGN posts

[Sandtaco]

:lol: What an interesting thread :lol:

[afex]

at least we know how to say it now

[Airlift]

But what we didn't know was that my name was a killing word. Learn something new everyday.

[BLuE_ZeRO]

We can solve all problems by just renaming the planet as "Planet Blue is your god" :D

[Kaikou]

yeah another thing that separates the 2 worlds is that on one planet, the people kill each other for their water with pointy objects (literally the water in their bodies), and on the other planet, people use highly advanced technological equipment to fight for territory :x

[Dyzan]

Fight for territory? Whoa whoa whoa, slow down a minute there professor, I thought this was about who has the biggest "who-who-dilly"? No? I'm always the last to know.:mad:

[PlasticGEAR]

i think the names are too similar and the planet's name should be changed thats all. I really dont care because I saw for the first time DUNE like 4 days ago. Its fine by me if its stays the way it is. Just bringing up that they are extremely close if not the same.
kisses...?

cork

[TG_NightHawk]

Originally posted by PlasticGEAR
i think the names are too similar and the planet's name should be changed thats all. I really dont care because I saw for the first time DUNE like 4 days ago. Its fine by me if its stays the way it is. Just bringing up that they are extremely close if not the same.
kisses...?

cork
Hmmm....I'm wondering if I can get a lawsuit going? I believe someone used my name without permission!!:rolleyes:
Seriously bro, who are you to make a request for SOE to change the name of a damn planet? Furthermore....why should they even give a flying #@$* about your observations on YOUR similarities in a movie?

[Navaron]

Time to take this post to the vet. It's seen better days, let's just put it out of it's misery before it bites someone.

[Coliostro]

:rofl: :stupid:

[FraBaktos]

Its annoying when people judge Dune on the movie and say its bad. The books are amazing, easily the best I've ever read, and even if you didn't like the movie at all (Which I didn't) you might still like the books.

[Navaron]

If you've got a spare year laying around.... ;) Aren't they huge?

[FraBaktos]

Well if you are extremely slow... yeah prolly about a year. Each book has around 300 - 500 pages

[Navaron]

So say you're an average reader with average spare time, 100 pages a night, so if you take weekends off, then you will be done just in time to play in open beta. Hmmmmm..... Or you could forum whore the next month and a half and be cool like Dio (you're my l33t h3r0)

[Bighoss]

No little bad Sci Fi movie company is gonna screw around with with Sony. SONY RULES ALL:rock:

[PlasticGEAR]

i thought the movie was good and the reason i recommended they see the movie rather than read the books, were to so they could hear the way they said Arrakas , so they could compare it to Auraxis from the AGN broadcast. And don't say its wrong if you haven't heard both with your own ears. But still i stand by changing the name that hasn't been ripped-off (purposefully or not). Go rent the movie, go buy the movie, or borrow the bloody movie, i'd pay the fee myself for the people who disagree to actually see the moive. Tell me, who disagrees and hasn't heard one, the other, or both.
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ignorance is bliss? why do stupid people get bliss, and all i get is this fried duck?

[TG_NightHawk]

One last time.....who gives a damn!:zzz:

[PlasticGEAR]

i do, why do you think i started this poll in the first place...
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what a fish

[TG_NightHawk]

Seems you are the only one....:doh: That's the last I say in this idiotic thread! :brow:

[Myhouse43]

I'm sorry but the origional post in this thread is f###ing retarded. No offense to anyone else who posted here.