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MrVicchio
2003-01-06, 06:12 PM
Author Topic: TribesSide
karlparsons
Station Member
Registered: Mar 2002 posted 01-06-2003 08:45 AM user search report post
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I can't wait for TribesSide. The game is a complete copyright violation and stealing of intellectual material from Tribes, but I don't care. As long as it works, I will be happy, I love Tribes, and this is basically Tribes on a larger scale!
I think the underground gaming gurus should remember our beloved Tribes and refer to this game as TribesSide as a reminder of the game that spawned Planetside.

I cannot wait for TribeSide!!

SJ says what needs to be said............

SmokeJumperPS
Station Admin
Registered: Sep 2001 posted 01-06-2003 03:01 PM user search report post
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You can't copyright, or otherwise protect, a method of playing a game.
So even if we were a copy of Tribes 2 (which we aren't...why would we do that when T2 already exists?), then there still would be no legality discussion at all.

Even so, no designers involved in PlanetSide were involved in Tribes or Tribes 2. In fact, there is only myself and one programmer on this team that worked on ANY of the Tribes products.

Since this thread is long on vitriol and short on facts, it's being closed.
http://boards.station.sony.com/ubb/planetside/Forum2/HTML/001279.html

Hamma
2003-01-06, 06:33 PM
Sounds like some tribes player. :p

Airlift
2003-01-07, 07:44 PM
Smokejumper should have just said WTF is a Tribes?