Ubisoft sued as author wants to block sale of Assassin’s Creed III
Author of hit novel Link (never heard of it…) John Beiswenger is suing Ubisoft on the grounds that the entire Assassin’s Creed fiction was his idea. Link explores the same ideas of diving through ancestral memories, futurist’s technology, and even sub plots of religion and God that Assassin’s Creed also dances around. Now since this allegation against Ubisoft mentions it is a “direct copy”, he might be shit out of luck.
Reading through the brief summary, the story only appears vaguely familiar, missing all the fun and stabbing that goes on in the Assassin’s Creed series. In total Mr. Beiswenger is hoping to get at least $1 million if not $5.2 million in damages and he would like everything Assassin’s Creed III related to stop.
He had better hope that Ubisoft doesn’t have to comply with that last part, because I can't be held accountable for what would happen to him. I need my AssCreed fix dammit! Strangely Gametrailers has been roped into this as well for hosting the following trailer. I am going to just make sure we don’t have that one up on the site… brb.
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SebVanW
god the people making the horible reviews for the book are funny
Karl Kablisk
I can understand suing for money if he believes its a copy, but telling them not to make the next game? That's just spiteful! Even in the case that it is a copy, I'm sure I like Assassin's Creed better, doesn't that count for something? lol
OverpoweredGopher
Ubisoft ripped the majority of ideas for Brotherhoods mp from a company they purchased and then booted out a window, they arent going to care about this.
SteeLawlor
I wonder if William Shakespear was still alive he'd sue Disney for making The Lion King, which is basically the story of Hamlet
Rathclav
Sorry Sean but to tell the truth, I support him. Not because I think he is right, but because after the pathetic rush job/cash grab of brotherhood and revelations, I would rather see the next ac game delayed for two or three years and get worked on with some real care and effort instead of just being shit out as another yearly franchise that loses a huge amount of its creative depth. I'm not saying I don't belief there claims that ACIII has been worked on since ACII was released, I'm just saying that after everything they have done wrong with the series, It would be far better imho if they just took some time and polished this game properly.
Gannondorf_929
Just because your personal opinion dictates that the past few games are bad, doesnt mean that you should want this game delayed. Im all for the whole "in my opinion" stuff, but when your opinion directly threatens the livelihood of a game dev, as well as an innocent review company, i just see "ignorance" ... .. . although those games did suck
Rathclav
No, unpolished and in need of better effort. A lot of idea's in both games worked great. But beside that, I never said I wanted them to lose this court case. I could care less about what he thinks he wants and didn't even see the part about gametrailers until after I had posted. That act makes this extra laughable, but I stand by my view that the seires could use a major delay as early on as possible to make sure they work on improving the game its self and not simply extra dlc or something silly like that. And as a final note: Threat to the dev's lively-hood? Come on man, this is a company that is so bloated with cash they pump out sequels every 9-12 months, even in there fitness games. They are as much at risk from some silly lawsuit as McDonald's is threatened by people who claim they got fat and its all McDonald's fault.
OverpoweredGopher
Didnt they claim AC3 has been in development since the middle of AC2's development? seem to remember reading that about a month ago, at the very least i remember it claims it had been in production since before Brotherhood came out, so thats a few years atleast. But,yes it is annoyingly going the way of generic FPS, new game every year, not enough content to care.
Rathclav
Agreed OPG. They have some good ideas but that's running against a company that just wants to milk sequels rather then pay for the development of real games. It sounds like this game was done by a separate subdivision of ubisoft but will it stand up to the test? Time will tell. And I hope if it does blow, people can wait for the truth to leak out before 3.7 million copy's sell like rev did in its first few weeks.
I.T.P
Rathclav, you've completely missed the fact that the Team that made ACI and ACII is the team making ACIII whilst AC:R and AC:B were made by separate teams, and that also seems to be the reason they moved very little in Desmond's plot.
Personally, I liked AC:B and AC:R a lot, I think they polished the gameplay of ACII to perfection and added a lot of fun perks and additions. if you don't like them that's your right, but don't tarnish them as quick cash grabs - they each had a crap ton of content with many improvements and features not present in ACII.