Work in progress Standards of Hell (Diablo Tribute)

**Alex Ros** · 11-24-2012, 04:23 PM

Maaaaaan... that's a really dangerous project. Blizzards are very angry at the moment, they are in the process of suing with Valve because of DOTA 2 project. And as you might know at first DOTA was a free mod on MMO Warcraft and Valve just bought the idea and decided to make a self-contained game on their own engine. And that's were Blizzards came out: "What the f**k?!? The DOTA was a mod on OUR game world. It's copyrighted!!!" And they, Blizzards, have already lost some charges. DOTA 2 is going to be released. But suing process is not even nearly finished. As a result at the right particular moment Blizzards are observing their intellectual property kinda extremely aggressively. If I'd be on your place, I'd change ALL the names of the Diablo characters, places, etc... And better not to even think about the usage of original sounds, music, models, etc... Really. Honestly. I have a lot of respect to you personally, StreetBoat. So, please, be very careful. The time itself is not funny for Blizzards, they are really angry and aggressive.

You won't be sued or jailed or whatever of that kind. No, no. It's not like that. They will just ask you (very softly and friendly) to delete your finished (!!!) mod from everywhere. The end of story. And they will NOT tell you anything at all UNTIL the mod will be finished or nearly finished. That's the main problem. You would not even know that something bad is going to happen, until you will be at the stage of a Demo Version. Not earlier.

And, by the way, Diablo characters, story, etc - IS their, Blizzards, intellectual property. And will be theirs for next 50 years, no matter if the company itself will or not exist. Copyrights aren't linked to the company, they're linked to exact persons. It's always that way. And it doesn't matters where do these persons are working at the moment. For example, when you do see something like © 20th Century Fox Pictures it DOESN'T means that copyrights belongs to a company. No. They belongs to a very exact person or persons.

You just have to change all the characters names, places, etc. And, of course, for good do not use ANYTHING from the original Diablo. And that will be enough. No problems at all! You CAN take the story and ALL twists and turning points. And you CAN take the dialogues (but changed word by word, no exact similarities in words). You don't even need to change anything visually, because all these churches, satanic symbols, knights, etc... aren't charged by copyrights. That's just culture, no copyrights.

P.S. Don't get me wrong. I'm saying all this with all respect possible to you personally, StreetBoat.

P.P.S. And it's not a joke. It's a very serious things. And it DOESN'T matters if your mod will be for just a few of people-Diablo-fans. It doesn't matters at all.