Ye Olde Inn

by **bastianbux** » February 24th, 2014, 9:02 pm

My new "favorite" piece of info is that the guy/company he'd hired to do the sculpting backed out because GZ admitted that he lied about something (likely the part about having proof that he has the rights). What exactly does Mr. GZ expect to happen? Does he honestly think that he'll get away with this? And worse yet: if he DOES get away with this, what sort of precedent is that setting? I can already tell that the English version (if there is one) will be awful as his English is pretty terrible. At some point in the future--assuming he doesn't get sued--will people think of "HeroQuest" as "that game with the terrible English from 2014"? :/

knightkrawler wrote:The German forum members were all over it like naive fanboy hawks....

I myself am very disappointed at their behavior and their consumer naiveté and not least in the fact that those backers actively help destroying our HeroQuest hobby by bringing the name to the conscience of Hasbro, GW, and others. I mean, if everybody involved or touched by the whole matter is going to be really really consequent, yeoldeinn will no longer be able to host HQ files anymore. That's what my nightmare is, nothing less, nothing more. I wonder if anybody has ever put a fan-thought in this....

While it is always possible Hasbro can require the Inn to remove its hosted HQ files, I don't think that they will. The community at the Inn poses no financial challenge to the megacorporation. If anything, the Inn nutures the market of HQ fans, sustaining a future market. What they don't want is copyright infringement for cash, as HeroQuestFrance discovered from Hasbro France. Disclaimers now provided at his site have allowed him to reopen his files. Here at the Inne, drathe has always concientiously provided a copyright disclaimer with downloads.

bastianbux wrote:I can already tell that the English version (if there is one) will be awful as his English is pretty terrible. At some point in the future--assuming he doesn't get sued--will people think of "HeroQuest" as "that game with the terrible English from 2014"? :/

I'd second the need for the English version to be perused for translation inconsistancies. Inne members could help with editing, as assistance was courted in a correspondence with drathe.

by **knightkrawler** » February 25th, 2014, 11:14 am

Daedalus wrote:Inne members could help with editing, as assistance was courted in a correspondence with drathe.

Better you than anyone, D., I'll give you that. BUT. How long did this correspondence last? Ah yes. Until GZ figured out that questions arose that they wouldn't answer.
By now I'm pretty convinced this project won't even get as far as a translated version.

by **drathe** » February 25th, 2014, 2:06 pm

knightkrawler wrote:
Daedalus wrote:Inne members could help with editing, as assistance was courted in a correspondence with drathe.

How long did this correspondence last? Ah yes. Until GZ figured out that questions arose that they wouldn't answer.

Nothing since the end of November when the Kickstarter was suspended.

by **Thantos** » February 25th, 2014, 3:20 pm

And then we were attacked. At first it only slowed down the job of the person in charge of setting things running, but at the end they managed to crash the server in which both heroquestclassic.com and our own store are hosted, with a strong distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS).

Electronic mails have been affected too, and we have noticed that not every response message we have been sending to you has reached its destination. It is very important to remark that no confidential data from our customers has been compromised in any moment, so beyond the headache all this matter has caused to our technical team, the worst loss we have to regret is the wasted time.

Unluckily this has not been the first time we have been attacked, and during the campaign even Lánzanos was under attack, much to the detriment of other projects that were being funded at the same time as ours in that crodwfunding platform. This is a crime, a type of harassment we could not and will not tolerate, and that we have immediately reported to the Guardia Civil Cybercrime Unit.

Im looking at Sjeng

lol