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What happened with Ubisoft?

3 posts by 3 people · 21 Apr 2001 20:45 UTC - 22 Apr 2001 18:32 UTC

TRUSRS85 21 Apr 2001 20:45 UTC#189738
I must not have been paying attention? What's the inside scoop?
THey wrote nasty emails to a website saying "Take down the modifications for our game please" Every went "Boooo Hiiisss" Then it's revealed that the website was technically on UbiSoft webspace So it was in breach of their FIA contract. HOWEVER Mistakenly people believe that the FIA is to blame The FIA have already sold the licence to many people - and they can come BACK to the FIA and complain that people are free-lancing over the top of their licences. Anyway - it's all a load of toss, the fact that Ubisoft didn't ask nicely, or that the website didn;t give us the full story means that no-one has a clue whats actually going on...but it MIGHT be the trigger for a wider pattern of mod-culling doug "TRUSRS85" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I must not have been paying attention? What's the inside scoop?
> ...but it MIGHT be the trigger for a wider pattern of mod-culling > > > doug >Very unlikely. These companies know that its the mod sites that make these sims a success, so they are not likely to put a stop to them. In fact Ubisoft have been to date one of the more open companies, see what happened with MGPRS2 in particular. They didn't have a pukka licence and used silly made up names for circuits and drivers but made the code sufficiently open to allow mods more or less from the word 'go'. Iain

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