BEWARE

(kamikazee) #121

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(Tubbe) #122

One can only applaud Activision, id Software and of course Splash Damage for their insightful resolution of this matter. GJ!

(Shaderman) #123

That’s what I thought, too (I wouldn’t applaud though :)). Nice happy ending.

#124

That’s what I thought, too (I wouldn’t applaud though :)). Nice happy ending.[/quote]

I agree. Good job getting this solved so quickly! :slight_smile:

But if I may be grim… This happened before the game was released and nobdy wants bad PR. If this would have happended say 6 months (just a guess) after the gold release of ET:QW, when most of all earnings to the different companies has been made, would Activision say in that position that a misunderstanding was made, such as they told Nail today? After hearing all bad stuff about EA, it is easy to put Activision in the same shady greedy category. /Whine?

(Loffy) #125

I am sitting at work (a univ in northern Sweden) on my summer vacation trying to finish this 20 page article for a research journal. Unsurmountable work needed to get a thorough treatment of the subject matter. Wils?

(deej) #126

Exactly. I think it’s much more useful for them to use the W:ET community as leverage for ET:QW & RTCW2. And let’s just be a tad naive & assume they care more for their fans / customers than big bad games-factory EA ;-).

(jimb0) #127

Had this attempt by Activision been successful, I wonder what would happen to these sites.

Planet AvP
Planet Battlefield

You must have noticed these sites are called “Planet ", not just "”, so your example doesn’t apply here. Why do you think people have come up with domains like that, or “Total *” for example?

(RosOne) #128

Cause the non-planet, non-total domains were taken :blah:

Try www.the-microsoft.com or something… good luck… :smiley:

(EB) #129

…it is so easy for people to say things when they were not involved and/or even effected by any of this.

(_NeT_WalBanger) #130

Just a heads up to anyone with a website that has the names:
Enemy Territory
Enemy Territory:Quake Wars
Quake Wars
Wolfenstein

Our wonderful freinds at Activision have shown how they treat customer loyalty. After over 3 years of maintaining one of the largest ET Resource sites in the world at www.enemy-territory.com and hosting
2,535,390 downloads of Win and Linux ET files, not counting maps, tools etc, and initially having Edward Stern (ID software) and Caryl Law (Activision) both telling us that they like the site and wishing us luck, we got this e-mail:

Quote:
Dear Mr. Martin:

I am the Online Manager for Activision Publishing, Inc. Our company publishes and distributes the successful WOLFENSTEIN: ENEMY TERRITORY™ game and the new ENEMY TERRITORY: QUAKE WARS™ game, both of which were developed by id Software. Note that ENEMY TERRITORY® is a registered trademark and WOLFENSTEIN: ENEMY TERRITORY™ and ENEMY TERRITORY: QUAKE WARS™ are trademarks of id Software, licensed to Activision.

It is our understanding that you have registered the domain name enemy-territory.com and are using it in connection with a website devoted to our games. Our company and id appreciate greatly your interest in the games and your efforts in creating and maintaining the site. It is loyal fans such as you who make our efforts in this field worthwhile.

I am writing to explore the possibility of purchasing the enemy-territory.com domain name on behalf of Activision. In exchange for the transfer of the domain name, our company would be willing to pay $250 to you and provide a copy of any one of the published Activision games. Of course, you would be free to continue to operate your site, but would have to use another URL.

In view of the fact that your domain name includes id Software trademarks and thus could be transferred without charge, I believe that this is a very fair offer. If you agree, please contact me so that we can work out the details of the transfer. I appreciate your consideration, and look forward to receiving your reply.

Sincerely yours,

John Horniblow
Online Manager
Activision Publishing, Inc.

so, it seems while ET was free, it was ok for us to promote their game for free for them and help make the game what it was, now that et:qw will be a smash commercial success our contributions have been deemed irrelevant and we can have our domain name just taken away from us essentially killing our website, We have almost 400,000 members who associate our domain name with our site.

now delays wouldn’t stop me from buying the game, but this kind of heavy handedness certainly will, and could also have me advising our members by mass mail to boycott Activision games.

Hopefully this won’t get deleted immediately, but I advise anybody else with a site that uses ANY of the names to expect an e-mail from the Activision bean counters wanting to use all the work and goodwill you’ve developed without any effort on their part.

All this crap really pisses me off, they should remember it’s the community that made ET the game it is and therefore helped develop the fanatic devotion to the gameplay aspect that has been shown in these forums

sorry if this is too off topic for here, but I needed to rant IN the community

/rant

LOL…

Tbh honest you have no room to talk…
You sent me emails kicking off at me, for my download section linking to you to download the game…

What goes around comes around IMO

(EB) #131

Was it a direct download or a re-direct to the site ?
…that correlation has no real justfication, you just have a plain old grudge.

I second the “lock” nomination.

(nUllSkillZ) #132

I think id and Activision are so generous as they have shown here.
If the game would be published in 9 month who would remember this.

And if you want a lock you have to call: “Hen admin.”
:smiley:
Hope this works.

(squadjot) #133

Sincerely yours,

John Horniblow

what a name… ^^

(Nail) #134

You sent me emails kicking off at me, for my download section linking to you to download the game

you were direct linking to our downloads, YOU were one of the reasons we had to make downloads for reg users only, we were losing terrabytes of bandwidth to people like you who abused our forums and stole from us

now back on topic, as this has been resolved in a manner that benefits all, lock or deletion of this thread seems to be a good idea

(mortis) #135

!!!

(Wils) #136

+set hen_admin 1