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News Room Contributor  Posts: 6853 Joined: 12 Nov 2002     | |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 122 Joined: 1 Mar 2006     | wow harsh words from the attourney |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2795 Joined: 29 Dec 2007     | Yet funny. |
Muckraker  Posts: 244 Joined: 8 Jan 2008     | Zing! |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 80 Joined: 29 Nov 2007   | Does the 360 have any games worthy of modding PS3 characters into? (PS: joke) |
Anonymous Source Posts: 5 Joined: 28 Nov 2007 | can you mod m360 games? (minor grumble. why the hell not i scream!) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1253 Joined: 13 Jan 2007   | Hey, I suppose, then, that Cryptic Studios can tweak their character tools to let people make their own MC, no? After all, it spreads the faith. |
Master Archivist  Posts: 9396 Joined: 28 Nov 2007   |
Yes, you can. People have done it with GHII. |
BANNED  Posts: 5167 Joined: 26 Feb 2008   | I would love to see The Arbiter jamming out on Guitar Hero... This sounds like it opens the door for a lot of other games to get mods to add Master Chief or other icons... Imagine modding SSBB to have MasterChief replace Fox or one of the other clone characters... User was banned for: Ipod Saves Girl's Life. (Permanent) |
Muckraker  Posts: 327 Joined: 29 Nov 2007    | Oh, ZING. This is what corporate poltics should look like more often - agreement, acceptance, no lawsuits, pointing and laughing. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1212 Joined: 9 Dec 2007   | Give McGowan a medal for that outrageously forward comment! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2484 Joined: 18 Sep 2007   |
Not quite what you asked for, but... -- Steve |
Paperboy  Posts: 48 Joined: 3 Mar 2008   | "And no one is taking characters from PlayStation games (do they even have any games?) and putting them on our platform..." Maybe because they CAN'T. And this d*ck was doing so well. |
Muckraker  Posts: 237 Joined: 20 Feb 2008 | Zing! And I too would love the idea of the Arbiter rocking out on Guitar Hero. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3664 Joined: 21 Jan 2008   | Ouch, but ah well, "all's fair in love and war". And this is war, according to their, well, 'loyal' fanbase. |
BANNED  Posts: 6314 Joined: 29 Nov 2007  |
Seconded. The guy just stated that the PS3 was better for having User Created ports. User was banned for: The hypocrisy is KILLING me.. (Permanent) |
Muckraker  Posts: 337 Joined: 19 Oct 2008  | .......doesn't the XBOX 360 Live Arcade have Castlevania :Symphony of the Night, which was released on the ORIGINAL Playstation? *goes to check the only thing that I've bought Microsoft Points for* Well look at that.......it does. 8O |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 439 Joined: 21 Jan 2009  | He was doing so well till he decided to be a twat-mouth |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1129 Joined: 21 Nov 2007   | You couldn't mod anything into the 360 anyway. Well you can, But it would be just a complete waste of time. Because you wouldn't be able to play XBL |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2903 Joined: 10 Jan 2009 | Hahaha. Funny, but the shot at Sony was uneeded. Now we wind up with a potential fanboy hoedown as a consequence. |
Master Archivist  Posts: 9841 Joined: 26 Dec 2008  | And I was so proud of him until he decided to be a fanboy. EDIT:
Or you could get the same experience from any FPS that has come out since Halo, for the most part. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 538 Joined: 25 Apr 2008 | I prefer the Xbox 360 to the PS3 and Wii, but Microsoft as a company needs to shut up and suck less. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 439 Joined: 21 Jan 2009 | Aren't both Halo 1 and 2 out on PC as well? I guess since MS likes to ignore the fact they're losing to Nintendo they figure they can ignore PCs as well |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4688 Joined: 9 Jul 2008 |
Oh, come on. It was clearly just a joke, and you can't blame a man for being(or at least pretending to be) a fanboy for his employer. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 439 Joined: 21 Jan 2009 |
I wonder if he makes two separate wages: Lawyer wage and fanboy wage... I'd work that job :D |
On the Record  Posts: 5280 Joined: 3 Jan 2009     |
He did do really well considering he is a lawyer. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1007 Joined: 10 Oct 2008  |
I looked at the first contestant on that comic strip, then back to McGowan's parting comment and had a good laugh. I hope that was intended. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1672 Joined: 4 May 2008  |
Microsoft made windows before anyone knew what an xbox was... Also, microsoft isn't losing to nintendo unless they're targeting the same audience, which they're not. |
Muckraker  Posts: 229 Joined: 9 Jun 2008 | Zing of the daaaaaay~ |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 510 Joined: 14 Jan 2009  | Kudos to the attorney, wish more people could be level headed like him. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 395 Joined: 11 Jan 2009  | Nice words attorney... a silent, subtle and public fuck you. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 581 Joined: 4 Sep 2008   | I applaud them for not jumping on the lawsuit bandwagon. "OMG we made that! STOP IT! Give us (INSERT INSANE AMOUNT OF $$$ HERE) for unspecified damages!" |
Muckraker  Posts: 297 Joined: 10 Feb 2009  |
Not to mention witty.
Oooh!!! Love how he rises above the fanboyism, but doesn't really. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 671 Joined: 13 Aug 2008   | microsoft are such good sports and sony got rinsed |
Beat Writer  Posts: 216 Joined: 24 Mar 2009 | Wow. This is pretty impressive, to say the least. I don't know if it can be taken as a sign of something new, though. |
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Microsoft Says User-Created Master Chief Is Okay With Them
A Microsoft lawyer has said that despite concerns to the contrary, Microsoft is not going to take issue with the creation of a Master Chief mod for Unreal Tournament 3.
Unveiled earlier in the week, the mod allows gamers to play as the Xbox flagship character Master Chief on the PlayStation 3 console by way of Unreal Tournament 3. Some observers felt the potential for a negative reaction from Microsoft was real enough that sources as far-flung as Business Week took notice, but on his DonkeyXote blog, Microsoft attorney Don McGowan wrote, "Many people are talking about the Master Chief mod for Unreal Tournament 3, that allows you to play in the character of the Master Chief on the PS3. Many people are surprised Microsoft is 'allowing' this."
"Actually it's nothing more than Game Content Usage Rules in action," he continued. "When these were developed, people all thought they were focused on machinima. The truth is that while they do address machinima they also allow for a lot of other things. Mods like this are one of them. The developers aren't selling the mod, they're not monetizing Microsoft's IP, they're just creating something to share their love of the Master Chief on a new platform. It's a great thing for us and a great thing for the gaming community."
Despite his magnanimous attitude, McGowan couldn't resist a parting shot at Sony's competing console. "This will also remind people of just how great the Halo games are and remind them that if they're done with the user-created faux-Halo experience, the real Halo is available only on the Xbox 360. And no one is taking characters from PlayStation games (do they even have any games?) and putting them on our platform..."
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