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Mosara
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:15:00 -
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It was a sad day when I realized this. I was watching "Wing Commander" from 1999, don't ask me why I was watching it, but the similarities were too much for me. Phrases such as, "pods, jump drives and capital ships" along with other very familiar terms verified that Eve Online is nothing but a ripoff. I feel as though my soul has been torn out. I have no other way to describe it. The last time i felt this way was when I watched "Tora Tora Tora!" and figured out that the attack scene was ripped off by George Lucas himself for Star Wars. Geez...what a disspointment. I actually thought that CCP had created something original with Eve. Boy, was I wrong.
Great Job, CCP....
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ReaperOfSly
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:17:00 -
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So CCP weren't the first people to think of pods jumpdrives and capital ships. Big whoop. 
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Zhabac
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:17:00 -
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1/10
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Adam Weishaupt
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:17:00 -
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So...you think the 'Wing Commander' movie is better than EVE because EVE uses similar vocabulary?
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Janine Mosh
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:18:00 -
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n00b alert , emo , beep , ****
but seriously what else do you want to have as responce on you'r post ? 
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Dr Pringle
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:19:00 -
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Edited by: Dr Pringle on 24/05/2006 13:20:54
Considering it is competitively priced compared to other MMO's, even when no other MMO's are as good and addictive as this game, I think you are wrong.
If you dont want to pay, dont play, and dont slam the door on the way out.
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Karunel
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:20:00 -
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err...what?
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Thorned Switchblade
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:20:00 -
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If you would've done a little more research, you would've know that the space genre in games started off with Elite. Wing Commander is loosly based on Elite, all be it a more combat orientated game. More correctly would be to say that Eve is therefor based on Elite, which is a common rant/praize on the internet.
Elite however is from 1982, a very old game indeed. And it certainly wasn't a MMORPG ;)
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Entity
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:21:00 -
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By this reasoning, pretty much all Sci-Fi is ripped off from and by eachother.
Btw, you ripped off one of my posts where you used the phrase "the"
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Astrum Ludus
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:21:00 -
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 Originally by: Dr Pringle
Edited by: Dr Pringle on 24/05/2006 13:20:54
Considering it is competitively priced compared to other MMO's, even when no other MMO's are as good and addictive as this game, I think you are wrong.
If you dont want to pay, dont play, and dont slam the door on the way out.
edit - typo
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read?
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Asnar
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:23:00 -
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Originally by: Entity
By this reasoning, pretty much all Sci-Fi is ripped off from and by eachother.
Btw, you ripped off one of my posts where you used the phrase "the"
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Kipkruide
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:24:00 -
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I think the word you are looking for is inspiration there.
Every fantasy book ever written could be said to be based on tolkiens novels, I don't hear too much whining about that. Probably because people enjoy them as much as the originals since the fact that they have an elf in them is not the same as plagiarism. But to cut this short. Don't whine or Don't play. In your case i'd prefer the second. mr Nub.
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Za Po
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:25:00 -
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Edited by: Za Po on 24/05/2006 13:25:11
He's right! Let's all go play some other, TOTALLY ORIGINAL game such as World of Warcraft! We know that blizzard invented orcs and elves, don't we?
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Ank Myrandor
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:27:00 -
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Originally by: Za Po
Edited by: Za Po on 24/05/2006 13:25:11
He's right! Let's all go play some other, TOTALLY ORIGINAL game such as World of Warcraft! We know that blizzard invented orcs and elves, don't we?
RAWR <-- owh noes pirates are a rippoff too 
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MrRookie
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:28:00 -
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Originally by: Za Po
Edited by: Za Po on 24/05/2006 13:25:11
He's right! Let's all go play some other, TOTALLY ORIGINAL game such as World of Warcraft! We know that blizzard invented orcs and elves, don't we?
I've heard wow got these glowing swords now like the ones in starwars, obviously stolen (!?!), so we have to come up with something bether.
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Winter Star
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:28:00 -
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And of course wing commander (starring Mark Hammil ) is totally 100% original.
All the best ideas are always stolen. It's how things work, how things advance, even nature. A different set of solutions to a problem are devised. The best solutions flourish, and are stolen and through iteration improved, until someone comes up with an even better solution.
Just because something has been done before doesn;t mean you can't re-use it, although if you are going to re-use something it's a good idea to make sure you at least retain the same level of quality as the original or people get upset :)
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Winter Star
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:29:00 -
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Edited by: Winter Star on 24/05/2006 13:30:55
--dumb double post--
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Sarmaul
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:29:00 -
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holy crap, I just realised battleships have been used in the real world navies for hundreds of years. eve is such a ripoff!
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Squidzors
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:30:00 -
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Originally by: Kipkruide
Every fantasy book ever written could be said to be based on tolkiens novels, I don't hear too much whining about that. Probably because people enjoy them as much as the originals since the fact that they have an elf in them is not the same as plagiarism.
And Tolkien got his ideas from earlier work, even as far as mythology.
There's alot of unique stuff about eve that allows it to stand on its own in its own world.
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Deja Thoris
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:32:00 -
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I dont know what is worse, the OP or the people who replied without reading.
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Jacinto Naysmith
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:33:00 -
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Wing commander wasnt the first sci-fi game/movie/book to use the terms "pod" or "jumpdrive". The term "capital ship" is also a real naval term and wasnt invented in sci-fi.
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Sebroth
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:36:00 -
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Originally by: Mosara
It was a sad day when I realized this. I was watching "Wing Commander" from 1999, don't ask me why I was watching it, but the similarities were too much for me. Phrases such as, "pods, jump drives and capital ships" along with other very familiar terms verified that Eve Online is nothing but a ripoff. I feel as though my soul has been torn out. I have no other way to describe it. The last time i felt this way was when I watched "Tora Tora Tora!" and figured out that the attack scene was ripped off by George Lucas himself for Star Wars. Geez...what a disspointment. I actually thought that CCP had created something original with Eve. Boy, was I wrong.
Great Job, CCP....
You will have to go much longer back then to wing commander to find those words. The moste fun is the Capital Ships.
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Dr Pringle
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:36:00 -
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Originally by: Astrum Ludus
Originally by: Dr Pringle
Edited by: Dr Pringle on 24/05/2006 13:20:54
Considering it is competitively priced compared to other MMO's, even when no other MMO's are as good and addictive as this game, I think you are wrong.
If you dont want to pay, dont play, and dont slam the door on the way out.
edit - typo
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read?
I getcha, ill go sit in a corner now 
As soon as ripoff was said, I immediately thought "costs too much". i did read but it still didnt click (long day).
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Kalaan Oratay
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:37:00 -
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Imatation is the greatest form of flattery
Or in reality, Wing Commander hardly pioneered those terms you mentioned and so can be equally accused of being a 'ripoff'...
Don't see how any of this has any bearing on your enjoyment of the game however, you are clearly just trolling.
Get over yourself.
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Abner Tabner
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:39:00 -
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And every fantasy game out there is a rip off of Mother Goose :) |
Dak Hakin
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:40:00 -
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Anyone who has ever had a "robot" in a movie, game, book, whatever is ripping off Isaac Asminov.
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Hephaesteus
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:43:00 -
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Would now be a bad time to mention you could land on the planets in Elite. 
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Kalaan Oratay
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:45:00 -
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Originally by: Dak Hakin
Anyone who has ever had a "robot" in a movie, game, book, whatever is ripping off Isaac Asminov.
And you could say that robots are a ripoff of the tinman from The Wizard of Oz
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BlackHole Bob
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:52:00 -
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Edited by: BlackHole Bob on 24/05/2006 13:52:29
J.R.Tolkien's Lord of the Rings if the first written piece to have "troll's" "orc's" and "elve's".....so everyone else ripped him off to!
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GouldFish
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:53:00 -
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Come on you have to pitty the guy, he sat and watched the wing commander movie! hell I would not ask my worste foe to watch that film. The games on the over hand were much better.
But if that dissapoints you, then you better start buying the prozac fast.
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