thread: OW Game Editors
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06-18-2004, 02:28 AM
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Oh it all exist Xavier in this day and age yes! The problem is the copyright issue and that my friends is a big problem in this field. I think its a great idea but it will never happen. Because copyright is such a huge deal in this business, an editor would be a serious copyright issue. I am talking about that if they were to allow some random person to edit his or her game, he or she can easily steal big from the company by simply useing the editor in the game to change it around and to make his or her own little game and make profit off of it. Anyone could steal millions even billions of dollars from the game and LL would lose out on his profit. Its a big issue and thats just something they prevent from happening. Its probabaly under the copyright laws which I am sure is a huge book somewhere in Washington DC.

All games do the same thing to prevent copyright infringement because people don't want all their work stolen. It may seem like an awesome idea which I think it would be intresting especially for Oddworld but you have to look at all the cornors here like, "Is it safe to assume that nobody in the whole world will use an editor to his or here own personal gain?" You got to be consistant with all cornors of posable scenerios here. Mainly what I am saying is you got to say "What if!" and if the bad out ways the good then its not worth to lose millions of dollars because of some kid in Tim Bok Too decided he or she wanted to make some profit off of a game he or she illigally made.

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