Copyright is Bonkers!

I understand if NCSoft would like to protect it's own NPC character names, but not with a tool implemented inside the game itself.

We're unable to use any of the in-game AVs as bosses for any AE's because the copyright protection prohibits us from using their names. Or well... you can use the AVs, but you got to change their names to something generic in order for the AE to allow it.

I'm sure Dr.Vahzilok would like to be known as Dr.Vahzilok, not Frank. I know you guys don't pay much attention to the AE, but this is really something that you need to fix.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

If they fix that, they need to fix these too, please:

Yeah, that is ridiculous. I can understand NCSoft not wanting people to call Statesman "Captain America" or Synapse "The Flash" but what if I want to call Statesman "Statesman?"

I thought they fixed that. Is it broken again?

It's times like these I'm glad I don't care about AE anymore.

The arc in my sig has been broken for at least a year because I have an NPC named "Lieutenant Nelson" in it.

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

Right, I know the overall stupidity was never fixed, but I was under the impression that in-game NPC names were removed from the blocked list.

Its generally well known that copyright is now broken, abused, and no longer serves its original intent and purpose. Its out of control and no longer meaningful. Many works should have been in public domain, yet is being held back by unrealistic terms of time and harming the growth of our culture. Mainly by copyright and patent trolls.

This problem is just a taste of how stupid it has become.

I am really Surprised they do not have unlockable signature heroes/villains, Pay so many tickets to unlock Synapse or Lt. Sefu Tendaj

Of course knowing the full story of Sefu..( not saying any spoilers) it makes me think in the case of signature heroes maybe it's not so much copyright as it is protecting lore?

I ran into this problem just yesterday--had Dr. Vahzilok as a contact on a mission I was writing and it wouldn't let me use that name in multiple spots in the text. That, combined with the error where hostages and captors spew out almost all their dialog the second you zone in, is pretty much killing my interest in AE. On the other hand, it doesn't seem to impact the real use of the AE, so everything must be WAI.

HAMIDON is friggin' copyrighted?

YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!

With everything going on, HAMIDON sets off the copyright filter?

How in the bloody blue blazes am I supposed to do the next set of AE missions for "Ashes of Praetoria" if I can't name things Hamidon?

Dev's PLEASE FIX THIS CRAP!

Sad, thats just sad.

Hope it's fixed soon.

In the mean time.. call the characters like Statesman with their full 'real' name. First and last. It will most probably work.

That until some Dev finally gives attention to this stupidity.

All makes perfect sense to me really, rogue branches of the mobs we face can split off and do whatever you want them to do but random people shouldn't be able to mess with the games signature characters.

Just because you want Hamidon or whatever doing a specific thing doesn't mean that is what he/she/it wants to do.

Create your own arcs and characters, don't steal someone elses/

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Originally Posted by Aggelakis PrincessDarkstar: "RAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHH SOMEONE IS *WRONG* ON THE INTERNET!"

If the signature characters weren't to be used, they would never have been put into the Mission Architect to begin with. It ain't stealing a character when the character was given to you.