You beat me to it!

I don’t think she’s wrong. Just pointing out that while Multi User Dungeon was the older term, I think Multi User Domain is another acceptable reading of the term. You’ll find a lot of MUDs actually use the term ‘domain’ when describing themselves.

I know automatic captioning would not be perfect and is sure to lead to hilarious mistakes, but do any games even attempt that, so a deaf player can understand what is going on?

I’m mainly talking about the fact that the genre of rpg that FF is in - not necessarily implying that FF has weak female characters. I was responding to a post indicating that Japan in general does not have strong female characters. You can certainly add Rydia, Ashe, Terra, Celes, and Lightning to my list! Most of my…

They do have a number of strong female characters in more serious anime, manga, and fiction but not in the genre FF falls into. Kei, Chiyoko, and Miyako from the Akira manga come to mind.

“Maintaining feminity” is a chortle inducing comment. I get that they meant in terms of her character design but I immediately thought that if a woman’s concern going into a battle of life and death is looking lady-like, then her priorities are screwed up ;).

Well back to FFXIV and to wait for Persona 5, then!

That figure is amazing. If they had a line of poseable bobbleheads for many of the most iconic characters, I would totally buy it.

Every game should have captions and subtitles.

Oh no. I don’t feel hyped up at all. Neither do I feel hyped for FFXV. I am really hoping that I am not outgrowing FF - I’ve usually played through every game as I got older, even FFXIII, but the trailer, stiff battle animations, and execution of the stacking idea just is not doing anything for me. If anything makes…

New background.

Trico’s horns make me think of Ico’s main character.

I want to make the buff guy and the blonde guy the only two party members. Just not into Noctis or the smart guy. I know I am biased since the character archetype system of designing a group of characters (i.e. tank, healer, DPS, or big guy, smart guy, dexterous guy, emo guy) has always seemed lazy to me.

Should note that most of the secret orbs imvolve you going backwards in the level. You may be on to something.

Just to be clear - mash-ups are not considered parodies under copyright law. In order to assert that it meets the legal definition of a parody, you can not just say it is obviously a parody. You must point to actual cases or rulings in which a court or the copyright office in which they state that this type of game…

It’s actually funny that you use Trump as an example. Trump makes a living off of licensing his name. He would have an argument that certain commercially viable parodies would be negatively impacting his line of business and income. And, most importantly, it is not on his legal team to prove that it is a parody -…

No - basically at the very least, they created sprites that were based on Nintendo’s designs (you could also say they recreated the sprites) - sprites, logos, the title, anything that was created originally by Nintendo is owned by Nintendo as their Intellectual Property. Note that the article specifically stated that…

Yes, there would be a legal hassle. Someone can definitely tell Nintendo that they think this is a parody and list all the reasons that this affirmative defense applies. At that point, Nintendo would start seeking injunctions against the sites hosting the game, the creators, and other avenues of distribution. The…

I agree. I work on the legal side of the entertainment industry and am quite familiar with intellectual property law. I understand fair use and parody quite well. The issue is that it really isn’t that clear if a court would consider these fan games to be parodies and the only way to keep this up without court…

Just saying Kudos for such great reporting. You provided a summary of what was going on, links to the reactions, and an example of the message being circulated. This is higher quality reporting than many “legitimate” news reporting sites who type more words but give less direct examples!