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MMORPGs getting Sued

Worlds.com filed suit against NCSoft for copyright infringement on Christmas Eve. Two patents filed in 2000 by Worlds.com involving scalable chat and enabling users to interact with each other in virtual space are all infringed upon by NCSoft's games(Including City of Heroes, Aion, Tabula Rasa, Guild Wars, etc).

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cmdrlegion6274d ago

For untalented and desperate companies!!g'bye worlds.com and i hope you guys have a blast when Blizz tears you to shreds.

LoVeRSaMa6274d ago

Why Blizzard?

If anything NCSoft are actully bigger then Blizzard.

MMOCHART

Blizzard - 1
NCSOFT - 10+

Lumbo6274d ago

patent trolls are the scum of this century

ChampIDC6274d ago

Yeah, people like to look for every little tiny infringement to make more money. Sometimes it makes sense, but other times, you just have to sit there in awe to the miniscule details people find.

BrianC62346274d ago

I'd throw in the morons who give them these patents too. What kind of knuckleheads do we have in the Patents and Trademarks office anyway? Can't they use their heads? Should someone really be given a patent for any old idea? I say no. No more stupid patents. I think I'll get a patent on the idea of getting stupid patents. Then if anyone files for a stupid patent I'll sue them.

JeepGamer6274d ago

What ever happened to making money by making and then patenting a product? Is the new way to do things to patent something that is already in wide use then sit on it and spring the lawsuit?

That's a rhetorical question.

thisguywithhair6274d ago

Did you know that as much as 30% of the genes in your DNA are owned through patents? Makes you think, eh?

lord_of_balrogs6274d ago

Ya bull, they really have to reform this sort of policy. They should make it so you actually have to make the product before one can patent the product.

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‘Guild Wars Reforged’ is coming to PC via Steam on December 3rd, 2025

"The widely beloved and critically acclaimed MMORPG Guild Wars®, played for over 1 billion hours by over nine million players, is receiving a huge update to its player experience and user interface as developer ArenaNet® and co-dev partner studio 2weeks bring controller support and updated visual fidelity to the game while simultaneously consolidating all of its expansions for the new price of $19.99.

Beginning December 3, Guild Wars Reforged will launch on Steam and Windows PC." - ArenaNet.

PRIMORDUS107d ago

I played the first beta of GW1 way back in May 2004, still playing it sometimes today, now I'm mostly in GW2. I will definitely go back in GW on Dec. 3 to see the improvements 😎

TGG_overlord107d ago

Sweet =) I hope that you (and others) will have a great time with this one.

jznrpg107d ago

Put it on console and I’ll play it again. I’d didn’t do much of the endgame stuff it any at all (it’s been so long I don’t remember what I did besides level up) Since it has controller support it would be perfect for console

TGG_overlord106d ago

That sounds like a good idea imo, but I don't know if the devs have such plans. Maybe if this one turns out really well for PC, they might go down that road.

Michiel1989107d ago

no fucking way. I really hope that they give "new" servers, so not every new player starts playing when the veterans literally have endless piles of gold (platinum in this case) and honestly as a veteran I want a reset as well. I can't believe this is actually happening. Pleaseeeeeeeeeee be good. Christmas comes early this year

TGG_overlord106d ago

I don't recall that the devs have said anything about the matter as of yet, but we shall soon find out since the drop shall be done this December 3rd.

Michiel1989106d ago

Yeah looked around a bit and there is no reset or alternative sadly. I'm still super excited though also because they said that they will continue with some kind of updates (it's probably not content updates). Was planning to play some again in february but that will become december

mkis007106d ago

Here's hoping gw2 gets some enhancements soon. I want better draw distances.

TGG_overlord106d ago

I bet that's coming as well ;)

Travesty106d ago

I loved GuildWars.. back in the the day I would play this countless hours.. I was young and didn’t want to pay for a subscription like WoW.. My friends were stuck playing RuneScape and I thought this was next level content.

I play most my games on console now.. so I kind of wished they could bring GW2 to it. I haven’t played that game in years either.

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20 Years Ago, Guild Wars Made a Promise That it Still Hasn't Broken Today

After 20 years of ongoing service, the original Guild Wars still makes good on a promise it made that no other MMORPG has been able to truly mimic.

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PRIMORDUS311d ago

Been there since day 1, and the first beta, same with GW2. 20 years and they never said oh now we need to charge a monthly fee, and they only made Guild Wars no other games. I'm going to assume GW3 will have the same business model.

jznrpg311d ago

I got to 50 I believe but never got into it very much.It was fun but all of my friends were still playing EQ. Good to see it’s still going though.

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The Best Games You Can't Officially Buy Anymore

From Xfire: "It's been estimated that roughly half of the video games ever released on the market can no longer be downloaded or purchased. Whether this is exactly correct is not the point. Rather, we think that either way, the video game industry, as a whole, has done a terrible job at preserving video games and making older titles available to play for future generations."

Terry_B1751d ago

You can play all of these games still lol. The headline is just misleading. Funny is that there is not one game in the list that you really can't play anymore due to it being online only games.

CorndogBurglar1750d ago (Edited 1750d ago )

Its not about games you can't play. Its about games you can't officially buy anywhere.

Terry_B1750d ago

The author changed it actually

Army_of_Darkness1750d ago

Who needs to buy these games anyway? Most of them are average at best and won't really be missed.

littletad1750d ago (Edited 1750d ago )

It says buy, not play though. You can't purchase Deadpool or the Simpsons game anymore. Unless you have a 360 for the simpsons or a physical copy of deadpool, or purchased it before it was delisted.

shuvam091750d ago

Look at his comment. It's from 9 hours ago. Article goes back 4 hours. Title might have been changed after realising the mistake

isarai1751d ago

One you actually legit cannot play AT ALL is Noby Noby Boy. I miss turning my brain off and messing around in that game, was so psyched to re-download it when i rebought a ps3 slim, but you cant, even if it's in your downl library, along with a few other obscure PS3 games i had.

NecrumOddBoy1751d ago

The original memes to the moon game. Loved NNB on PS3.

FreeckyCake1751d ago

I would replace Transformers Devastation with War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron tho.

Knightofelemia1751d ago (Edited 1751d ago )

Transformers Devastation was good but not as good as Fall and War of Cybertron they should be on the list. SH 2 I can play any time I want since it came free in a $10 Xbox I bought used. The Simpsons Arcade I have on my PS3 surprised the Xmen Arcade game is not on this list or the Turtles arcade game either.

CorndogBurglar1750d ago

I had the X-Men arcade game on my 360. I don't know if Xbox Live is still a thing or not, and of it is, I don't know of they still sell X-Men. But it was deinitely on Xbox Live at some point.

Knightofelemia1750d ago (Edited 1750d ago )

If you had X-Men before you can redownload it from your transaction history on the 360 Microsoft did not castrate the 360 from online. That is how I was able to redownload the old TMNT arcade game to my 360 you can't play it on XB1 or Series X but you can still access it for sure on the 360.

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