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Posted by: Achronos
Sigh. Please don't make stuff up.
Here's what really happened: "Crap, these guys are making a Halo RTS mod for C&C. They shouldn't really do that. Too bad, because it looks nice, but still, if we don't kill it, then we could possibly lose our ability to defend our IP against more serious abusers."
And don't say "Copyright infringement or not." You make it sound like the fact that they were infringing was not a big deal - it was the ONLY THING THAT MATTERED. If it didn't matter, we wouldn't have gone through the trouble.
Ughhh, I should have picked my words more carefully. The thing is, I find it funny, that of all the things that could have been shot down, it was the halogen mod, especially this close to the announcement of Halo wars.
I realize that you and Ms want to "protect" your IP's. But to me it really seemed that halogen was specifically targeted because of HW.
Of course, I'm an outsider, so I have no idea what is going within the Vaults of Bungie, Microsoft, Ensemble and even Slipstream. But I think that's the problem right there. There sometimes seems to be a (too much) lack of communication between the community and the "officials".
The community can't be told everything, for obvious reasons. But I do think there needs to be a better communication between all sides. It's hard for the community to do their "thing", if they don't what you guys want or are planning to do, yet I can understand that developers and such are having a difficult time to come things they expect the community to like, simply because it isn't always clear what the community wants.
Anyway, if it sounded like I was trying to bash anyone, that wasn't my intention (although I was trying to poke a bit), nor am I mad, simply a bit frustrated at times.
[Edited on 9/27/2006]