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Taken from n-philes.com:
'Sega feels that The Simpsons Road Rage is too similar to their own Crazy Taxi (GCN, Xbox, DC) and have sued a division of Fox Entertainment for selling the game. Sega says that the title infringes on a Sega patent and the game was designed to deliberately copy and imitate Crazy Taxi. The lawsuit not only goes after Fox Interactive, but Vivendi Universal that now owns the company division, as well as the developer Radical Games Ltd. and publisher Electronic Arts.
Sega is asking for sales of Simpsons Road Rage be stopped and for reimbursement of lost profits. It has sold more than 1 million copies to date, further financial reason for Sega to go after them. Nothing has been said about the more recent Simpsons Hit & Run game.'
Hrmm...It sounds like Sega are perhaps getting a little bit desperate. If this goes through and wins (unlikely as it may seem), then any company that has made any platformers after Mario, should be sued by Nintendo. Or as someone said on the n-philes forum, Capcom could sue anyone who ever made a fighting game. Sega need to deal with this fact: Ideas get stolen (and Shigsy aparently knows it, with him being so secretive about Mario 128).
Although they do have a point about Road Rage being very similar, and I'm sure they own patents/copyrights on it, I don't think it can have stopped many Crazy Taxi Sales, Road Rage is a pretty awful game anyway. It just seems a bit too stupid on Sega's behalf to me, but anyway, what do you all think?
'Sega feels that The Simpsons Road Rage is too similar to their own Crazy Taxi (GCN, Xbox, DC) and have sued a division of Fox Entertainment for selling the game. Sega says that the title infringes on a Sega patent and the game was designed to deliberately copy and imitate Crazy Taxi. The lawsuit not only goes after Fox Interactive, but Vivendi Universal that now owns the company division, as well as the developer Radical Games Ltd. and publisher Electronic Arts.
Sega is asking for sales of Simpsons Road Rage be stopped and for reimbursement of lost profits. It has sold more than 1 million copies to date, further financial reason for Sega to go after them. Nothing has been said about the more recent Simpsons Hit & Run game.'
Hrmm...It sounds like Sega are perhaps getting a little bit desperate. If this goes through and wins (unlikely as it may seem), then any company that has made any platformers after Mario, should be sued by Nintendo. Or as someone said on the n-philes forum, Capcom could sue anyone who ever made a fighting game. Sega need to deal with this fact: Ideas get stolen (and Shigsy aparently knows it, with him being so secretive about Mario 128).
Although they do have a point about Road Rage being very similar, and I'm sure they own patents/copyrights on it, I don't think it can have stopped many Crazy Taxi Sales, Road Rage is a pretty awful game anyway. It just seems a bit too stupid on Sega's behalf to me, but anyway, what do you all think?
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Ah well, anything that takes money away from fox is fine by me.
All the better if it goes to sega
:^)
All the better if it goes to sega
:^)
leflus wrote:
> What is the sales of the games?
> I do not believe that they are selling so good.
> And if so why is Sega suing the creators of road rage?
I work for a videogames retailer - although Road Rage isn't exactly the biggest seller at the moment, it has sold VERY well, especially in the store I work at where there was a one day 20% off promotion - I must have sold atleast 30 copies myself, not to mention what other staff would have sold that day.
And again, that is why Sega are suing EA. Because the game is a blatent copy of Crazy Taxi - a game that Sega apparently own the rights to the entire genre of 3D pure-taxi games. Sega sue now to get those profits, as opposed to when the game was in development where they would get none.
> What is the sales of the games?
> I do not believe that they are selling so good.
> And if so why is Sega suing the creators of road rage?
I work for a videogames retailer - although Road Rage isn't exactly the biggest seller at the moment, it has sold VERY well, especially in the store I work at where there was a one day 20% off promotion - I must have sold atleast 30 copies myself, not to mention what other staff would have sold that day.
And again, that is why Sega are suing EA. Because the game is a blatent copy of Crazy Taxi - a game that Sega apparently own the rights to the entire genre of 3D pure-taxi games. Sega sue now to get those profits, as opposed to when the game was in development where they would get none.
Edgy wrote:
> As for Quarantine - quality PC game that - I forgot all about that
> one - you've made me feel all nostalgic now. Any idea if its freeware
> yet?
Probably! Think you'll probably be able to find it on The Under Dogs. I'm sure the stuff on there is legit abondonware...
:)
> As for Quarantine - quality PC game that - I forgot all about that
> one - you've made me feel all nostalgic now. Any idea if its freeware
> yet?
Probably! Think you'll probably be able to find it on The Under Dogs. I'm sure the stuff on there is legit abondonware...
:)
What is the sales of the games?
I do not believe that they are selling so good.
And if so why is Sega suing the creators of road rage?
I do not believe that they are selling so good.
And if so why is Sega suing the creators of road rage?
Sega aren't desperate for cash - they're doing very well at the moment.
As for them waiting til now. What's better for Sega:
a) Get the game canned right away. It wont necessarily increase sales of Crazy Taxi, and probably wont make Sega any money, but atleast there wont be a game within the same genre.
b) Wait until EA have made a nice profit from the game, claim the game is Segas and therefore get a percentage of the profits.
I know which I'd rather do if I were Sega.
As for Quarantine - quality PC game that - I forgot all about that one - you've made me feel all nostalgic now. Any idea if its freeware yet?
As for them waiting til now. What's better for Sega:
a) Get the game canned right away. It wont necessarily increase sales of Crazy Taxi, and probably wont make Sega any money, but atleast there wont be a game within the same genre.
b) Wait until EA have made a nice profit from the game, claim the game is Segas and therefore get a percentage of the profits.
I know which I'd rather do if I were Sega.
As for Quarantine - quality PC game that - I forgot all about that one - you've made me feel all nostalgic now. Any idea if its freeware yet?
Is Road Rage the new one or the old one?
If it's the old one, which I think it is, why's it taken them soooo long to get round to it?
Is it cos everyone thought it was poop when it first came out, but now the new Simpsons game is out and everyone thinks that's good, that ppl have started buying the other game!?!
Seems odd.
Are Sega in need of money THAT bad!
To be honest I ain't played Road Rage to see how 'identical' it is.
As for patenting the genre. erh...
In brief "Pick people up in your Taxi and take them to their chosen location. Do it as fast as possible for more cash." K, I think that's the gist of it.
Now take Quarentine for example. Game that came out many a yr ago. "Pick people up in your Taxi and take them to their chosen location. Do it as fast as possible for more cash." erm... Kkkkk!
The other point being Quarentine was helluva lot better than Crazy Taxi, as you could also use the money you won to buy guns n stuff for your taxi, so could also do drive by shootings. hehe! And that buzzsaw you could put on the front of the taxi and properly run ppl down..... mwahahahah! *cough cough*
erm.... yes.... back to my original post.
Sega should get a grip and just release some new decent games rather than moaning because someone else has had a little success!
:P
If it's the old one, which I think it is, why's it taken them soooo long to get round to it?
Is it cos everyone thought it was poop when it first came out, but now the new Simpsons game is out and everyone thinks that's good, that ppl have started buying the other game!?!
Seems odd.
Are Sega in need of money THAT bad!
To be honest I ain't played Road Rage to see how 'identical' it is.
As for patenting the genre. erh...
In brief "Pick people up in your Taxi and take them to their chosen location. Do it as fast as possible for more cash." K, I think that's the gist of it.
Now take Quarentine for example. Game that came out many a yr ago. "Pick people up in your Taxi and take them to their chosen location. Do it as fast as possible for more cash." erm... Kkkkk!
The other point being Quarentine was helluva lot better than Crazy Taxi, as you could also use the money you won to buy guns n stuff for your taxi, so could also do drive by shootings. hehe! And that buzzsaw you could put on the front of the taxi and properly run ppl down..... mwahahahah! *cough cough*
erm.... yes.... back to my original post.
Sega should get a grip and just release some new decent games rather than moaning because someone else has had a little success!
:P
True - but the game engine is almost identical - which is why Sega get my backing as a supporter. It wont stop me playing Road Rage - far from it, and I don't think they should withdraw it from the shelves, but Sega deserve some of the profits atleast - appartently they actually do have the patents on that genre of gaming.
Ah but lets be honest here.
Crazy Taxi and Road Rage do have SOME differences... mainly the vast array of cars and humour on offer in Road RAge.
Crazy Taxi and Road Rage do have SOME differences... mainly the vast array of cars and humour on offer in Road RAge.
You can not.
However, you can copyright a game - and it is blatently obvious that Road Rage is a copy of Crazy Taxi - as I already mentioned, the similarities are a plenty.
It would be just like two films being released with almost identical plots, characters, etc. Sure, they can be about similar things providing one isn't a blatent copy of the other.
However, you can copyright a game - and it is blatently obvious that Road Rage is a copy of Crazy Taxi - as I already mentioned, the similarities are a plenty.
It would be just like two films being released with almost identical plots, characters, etc. Sure, they can be about similar things providing one isn't a blatent copy of the other.
I didn't say they patented a genre, neither have sega.
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