Square Enix stops Crono Resurrection!!

[Diff-chan]

They can step in, but they don't have the god given right to stopping anything that's for non-profit use.

If they own the copyrights to the things people are using... then yes, yes they do have the right.

[rezo]

But is that right god-given?

[Dipstick]

But is that right god-given?

No.

It is given to them by the United States government. Close enough.

-Dippy

[voltz]

No.

It is given to them by the United States government. Close enough.

-Dippy

You just can't work with a corrupt power. Besides it did enough damage to book writing in europe in the 1700s.

[Diff-chan]

You just can't work with a corrupt power. Besides it did enough damage to book writing in europe in the 1700s.

LOL. Yea, because the United States is the only country in the world with a copyright system.

Why dont you just take your delusions and idiocy and go to Canada or something? Youll fit in well there.

[MechDeus]

Even when a product enters market, there's always gonna be worse from competition trying to improve on the original design and that's something everybody has to put up with reguardless of how bad they want sales under their control.

You seem to be confusing "product" with "license." If those guys wanted to make a game similar to Chrono Trigger then they can with no legal problems, Square doesn't hold a copyright on ideas. However, they took licensed property - specific designs, writing, characters, etc. - that was already owned by someone else and tried to use it for themselves. It's not a matter of who's making a superior product, it's a matter of protecting your own designs so that others can't steal them to do whatever they want with. Imagine what would happen to EA's football game sales if 989 and Sega had access to the Madden franchise name, most people buy games based on title, not manufacturer.

[MarsKitten]

Maybe we'll see in the future some of this art resurface as the offical trigger remake. It'd be pretty sweet if the CT:R team ended up on the art/graphic side of that.

[gameoverDude]

I can see why Square killed this fan project- it's just too good, as Yoshi said. They're afraid of being upstaged by a nonprofit group. But to truly justify this IMO, they'd need to show that they were working on an official version.

If I were the H.M.F.I.C., I'd have given them a crack at turning this into an official commercial project for Square/Enix prior to threatening a suit.

The CR team should've kept mum on the project until it was at 100%.

[B-Ri]

I can see why Square killed this fan project- it's just too good, as Yoshi said. They're afraid of being upstaged by a nonprofit group. But to truly justify this IMO, they'd need to show that they were working on an official version.

If I were the H.M.F.I.C., I'd have given them a crack at turning this into an official commercial project for Square/Enix prior to threatening a suit.

The CR team should've kept mum on the project until it was at 100%.

why? so all their work would have just been thrown right back at them in a lawsuit in which maybe 10-30 random internet surfers find and look it over?

Like someone else said, sure it looked nice, but it was obviously expected S-E would step in. With such talent they should have created their own original ideas.

[MrWhitefolks]

This is enough to make me consider boycotting anything from them. They're not gonna recreate it themselves and this project was looking amazing.

http://www.opcoder.com/projects/chrono/

OMG NO WAY! HOW DARE SQUARE KEEP SOME IDIOTS FROM REMAKING THEIR TITLE FOR FREE! THAT IS SO ABSURD! LETS GO BURN THEM TO THE GROUND PLZ!

jesus christ dude, calm down. it's a shitty 3d remake(yes, i've seen it) of a overhyped rpg for snes(yes, i've played it). square has every right to do this as it's THEIR intellectual property, and if you decide to boycott squaresoft products from now on because of it...then you're a moron.

btw; we all know that you wont really boycott, because just like every other square whore/fanboy, you'll continue to buy into the bullshit and keep giving them money to produce more lackluster titles(just like starwars fans do with lucas).

circle of life man, circle of life.