Thank Grog It’s Firday!!
Wow…what a surprise! Every time I do a “Designing In Downtime” post…it seems to bring on an UPDATE!!! You guys can take up a fund to pay me for my wasted time on those…if only to thank me for shaming EA into regular updates.
So…it looks like we have a pattern. And the pattern is a bit boring. But, it is clear that this game is now all about the writers, and not about some new way that EA programmers can make the game interesting. Writing- good! Gameplay-boring.
But, I have to say…that a piece of the dialogue really caught my attention, and rung a little too close to home this week. The whole issue of copyrights in the digital age is only going to get more complicated and muddy, and has created a whole new genre of “slime-buckets” in the world of litigation…the Copyright Troll.
I wish I could say that I have never had to deal with these vermin…but even as I write this, I am in a battle with a Troll and their slum-bucket lawyers, over something that ran for three days back in 2015, on a test post. Gotta love it.
But, it is a clear warning to anyone in this digital age of “sharing” that you really do need to know the law…and be prepared to do battle with trolls, if you get caught “borrowing” an image, or a song, or a video. “Sharing” is one thing…re-use is another…and KRUSTY may very well be headed into a TON of TROUBLE!
