Sega gives EA/Fox the proverbial finger

[Qroach]

Crazy taxi was just a rip off of Quarentine, (of course with out the blood, killing or wepons). I really don't see how they could patent somehting like this.

 

[Tahir2]

But you said without the blood, killing and weapons...
How was Quarantine similar to Crazy Taxi?

 

[Qroach]

How was Quarantine similar to Crazy Taxi?

You drove a taxi, you picked up passengers, and drove like mad to reach the destination in time. Sega dropped the post apocolytic theme, the ability to blow cars up, and running people over. Quarentine was always referred to as Doom in a cab. With overtones of escape form new york thrown in. I used to work with the guys that made Quarentine btw.

That's the thing, you can't patent an idea (for instance: a game where a human can fly), but you CAN paptent an implementation or specific way you implemented the fyling human in that game. At least that's the way I understand it.

 

[cthellis42]

Still, it can get silly. "He flies... and he SHOOTS stuff!"

Some patents are just too generic, and many suits linking too tenuously... I guess there's a reason most come to naught. Heh...

 

[V3]

Crazy taxi was just a rip off of Quarentine, (of course with out the blood, killing or wepons). I really don't see how they could patent somehting like this.

Well, if you bothered to read the patent, one of the thing is a system for making sure, no pedestrian gets kill in the game.

 

[Qroach]

V3,

Well, if you bothered to read the patent, one of the thing is a system for making sure, no pedestrian gets kill in the game.

once again, so what?

 

[V3]

once again, so what?

Crazy taxi was just a rip off of Quarentine, (of course with out the blood, killing or wepons). I really don't see how they could patent somehting like this.

They didn't patent the gameplay of CT.

I am just trying to get the point straight, you know cleap up the noise.

 

[Qroach]

even still, I read elsewhere that they are simply claiming a patent on the game idea. was that the patent number referred to in soem of teh articles about this?

 

[Johnny Awesome]

You guys probably remember that I was one of the biggest Sega fans around. They are complete idiots now. This is the most ridiculous lawsuit to come around in a long time. They can't make games that people care about, so they go and sue people who can.

 

[cthellis42]

Well they can and DO many games people care about still, but lawsuits are always lawsuits.