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   Anonymous Poster, Oct 2nd, 2009 @ 6:03am

   
   

   I never thought I'd actually be rooting for EA to take down anyone, but in this specific case, I'm more than happy to make an exception.

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   Killer_Tofu (profile), Oct 2nd, 2009 @ 6:18am

   
   

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   I agree.
   I think EA has done many a stupid thing over the years (as well as run quite a few game series in the ground).
   However, lately they seem to be starting to wise up.
   As long as they continue this good trend of standing up for what is right (I know, it is relative person to person) such as fighting pointless trademarks and lawsuits, as well maintaining the customer oriented approach (no DRM allowed) I just may come to respect them again.

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   Dark Helmet (profile), Oct 2nd, 2009 @ 6:58am

   
   

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   Agreed.
   
   Then the jackasses can get started on bringing baseball back to PC Gaming.
   
   I can only update on www.mvpmods.com

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   A Dan (profile), Oct 2nd, 2009 @ 7:04am

   
   

   The relevant game

   If anyone's wondering, and can't click through gaming website links like I can't, EA claims that he keeps threatening to go after them for Mirror's Edge.

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   Anonymous Coward, Oct 2nd, 2009 @ 7:09am

   
   

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   It's gonna take way more than that to get me to respect them again. They need to start respecting PC gamers again and stop making games and not releasing them on the PC.

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   Chronno S. Trigger (profile), Oct 2nd, 2009 @ 7:21am

   
   

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   That's the great thing about people like us. We are willing to accept change. We still follow the "fool me once" motto, but we will accept the change when it truly comes.
   
   If EA douse keep up their path and works to show the gamers respect we will eventually respect them back.

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   Anonymous Poster, Oct 2nd, 2009 @ 9:55am

   
   

   Re: The relevant game

   Which is hilarious, considering that Langdell was advertising a game he was developing called "Mirrors" and placed the title right above the word "EDGE" on his website...and the font used for the title of the game looked awfully familiar...
   
   Langdell was more than happy to push around smalltime developers. Now that he's pissed off the giant that is EA? LANGDELL IS SMALLTIME.

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   Anonymous Coward, Oct 2nd, 2009 @ 11:32am

   
   

   How can anyone trademark Edge in a video game? Circuit's Edge is a computer game developed by Westwood Studios and released by Infocom in 1989. It was based on George Alec Effinger's 1987 novel When Gravity Fails. The game was a hybrid interactive fiction/role-playing game; it contained a window of text, a graphic window for depiction of the player's current location, and various menus and mini-windows for character statistics and other game functions. Planet's Edge is a 1991 space science fiction computer role-playing game developed by New World Computing with Neal Hallford as the lead designer. The game's plot centers on investigating the sudden disappearance of planet Earth, by venturing out into the universe from a moon base. There are two main play modes: real-time exploration and combat using various spacecraft, and turn-based exploration, problem solving, and combat on the surface of hundreds of planets. Like most CRPGs, the game features a variety of objects, weapons, and quests/missions, but unlike most CRPGs, it lacks any detailed experience or stats system for the four characters the player controls.

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   Anonymous Coward, Oct 2nd, 2009 @ 11:33am

   
   

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   Argh, forgot that HTML doesn't do line-feeds automatically.

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    Still don't trust EA, Oct 3rd, 2009 @ 7:10am

    
    

    In typical EA fashion they will file for a patent on the word "edge" right after Langdell's one is thrown off.

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