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Offline Usako

FinalBossRO - Upcoming Thiefs
« on: Jan 22, 2008, 10:20 pm »
So this server hasn't started yet...but I just wanted to let everyone know they are planning to go through people's GRFs to get exclusive customs. Just letting people know...they should do all they can do to protect their data from being ripped off.

Kinda stupid to actually tell people you're gonna rip them off...makes you look like a douche and makes the server look cheap.

The names they go by on their forums and what they went by on RUNE (before they were banned) were Ragdoll, Euthanatos, and Patar.

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FinalBossRO - Upcoming Thiefs
« on: Jan 22, 2008, 10:20 pm »

Offline Zone

Re: FinalBossRO - Upcoming Thiefs
« Reply #1 on: Jan 23, 2008, 02:28 am »
Most servers do that.

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Offline MrrgleCaek

Re: FinalBossRO - Upcoming Thiefs
« Reply #2 on: Jan 23, 2008, 02:39 am »
....I agree with Zone, as sad as it may be to the artist or whomever made the sprite, most servers just piggyback off of other servers' grf's or data folders as they can't seem to find or be able to download the sprites themselves.
It seems common really, I guess the only thing is that if a server claimed ownership of the sprites would be something to be really uncalled for, *shrugs*.

Offline Pandora

Re: FinalBossRO - Upcoming Thiefs
« Reply #3 on: Jan 23, 2008, 08:54 am »
Just because many server do it doesn't make it any more acceptable. She did say they are planning to take exclusive customs.

I guess post a link here once they got their website up and every server can check if they took their stuff?
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Offline MrrgleCaek

Re: FinalBossRO - Upcoming Thiefs
« Reply #4 on: Jan 23, 2008, 11:18 am »
I'm sorry to ask but what are exclusive customs? Are they sprites made specifically for one server, and that one server only or a gift to another person? o.o;

Offline Usako

Re: FinalBossRO - Upcoming Thiefs
« Reply #5 on: Jan 23, 2008, 02:35 pm »
I'm sorry to ask but what are exclusive customs? Are they sprites made specifically for one server, and that one server only or a gift to another person? o.o;

That's exactly what it is. At one point I had made a pimp hat ONLY for PimpRO (with the allowance that since it was my sprite I could use it on my server as well...so basically it was exclusive for our two servers). But then everyone started stealing it...recoloring it...calling it their own...it's s*** honestly.

There are actually very few (in percentage) of servers that actually have exclusive customs...but there are some. There are also downloads that only some people have exclusive access to on my enhancements site...basically an area where artists share with the other artists on the forum. It's sad that people are just going to go rip these things off people's servers =/ The artists don't mind sharing, but they don't want to share with the majority of the community because all they are is leechers...so they share with the select few that have gained access through a post count + application + review system. Bleh. People are such dicks =/

But yeah...

Offline MrrgleCaek

Re: FinalBossRO - Upcoming Thiefs
« Reply #6 on: Jan 23, 2008, 07:04 pm »
Ah, I see than, I guess that's why RUNE is so strict with members ~~;, I myself would love to contribute and all but I've never been a spriter myself (I've really only tried to do small little things recently), I'm more or less better with 3D animation....
It really is a real shame that the majority of the RO community is just a pile of-well, I'll let your imagination think up of something vulgar to describe them, where they're insecure or feel like they're clever for looting somebody elses work than calling it they're own. It ruins the trust of the artists distributing their work to others when other people aren't good at art in itself or may not have the time to be spriters as well Dx;. I guess I understand now why you made this topic specifically, it's just that I see alot of servers with tons of customs that are the same ones from servers before o,o.

Offline Zone

Re: FinalBossRO - Upcoming Thiefs
« Reply #7 on: Jan 23, 2008, 07:21 pm »
Here is the thing though.
You release customs on your server, you are giving people the opportunity to use them, even the players, regardless if you make them.
I mean, look at RO as a whole, this is all Gravity's stuff. They can take the art if they want, it is their game, they legally own it.
So a server can use it regardless.

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Offline MrrgleCaek

Re: FinalBossRO - Upcoming Thiefs
« Reply #8 on: Jan 23, 2008, 07:29 pm »
Well yeah...it's just kind of the whole thing where people making false statements saying they made the customs where it seems to be the real pet peeve to artists who make the custom sprites...

Offline Zone

Re: FinalBossRO - Upcoming Thiefs
« Reply #9 on: Jan 24, 2008, 01:33 am »
Well yeah...it's just kind of the whole thing where people making false statements saying they made the customs where it seems to be the real pet peeve to artists who make the custom sprites...
Then the original artists need to contact the server host and inform them that the server is committing fraud (claiming they are the artist.
Really, if you want to get them patented, it's $45 a patent, I doubt pixels are worth that much.

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Offline Usako

Re: FinalBossRO - Upcoming Thiefs
« Reply #10 on: Jan 24, 2008, 04:25 pm »
Lol they shut down their forums...don't know if they are moving or just giving up. They had some issues with Browedit too ;p

Offline Zone

Re: FinalBossRO - Upcoming Thiefs
« Reply #11 on: Jan 24, 2008, 05:07 pm »
Giving up is a good idea, so they don't waste time and money on the server.

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Offline MrrgleCaek

Re: FinalBossRO - Upcoming Thiefs
« Reply #12 on: Jan 25, 2008, 01:19 am »
Lol they shut down their forums...don't know if they are moving or just giving up. They had some issues with Browedit too ;p

Well now, 'guess the problem solved itself o_o;

Offline Zone

Re: FinalBossRO - Upcoming Thiefs
« Reply #13 on: Jan 25, 2008, 01:22 am »
It seems so, but that may not be the case.
The server may be gong under a new name, site, forums, and all other things. O0

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Offline Ashe

Re: FinalBossRO - Upcoming Thiefs
« Reply #14 on: Jan 26, 2008, 10:59 pm »
Sorry to hear that Usako, I really like your works.
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