The White Wolf Posted April 29, 2012 Report Share Posted April 29, 2012 I knew this would happen. Here is a little something for the author of those crappy books. "Published in 1981, the short story "They Died Twice" by Alan Hathaway included, among other things, a machine developed for the express purpose of delving into ancestral memories. "Link" is a clear rip-off of this now 31 year old classic tale. While this reviewer would nominally ignore such things as there is no such thing as a new idea, the author's insistence of suing a company for essentially the same thing he did in 2003 deserves a low rating."~ Review by customer who read the book "Link" First of all I have read all of his books and they virtually suck and are clear rip off's of other famous books. The quotation was from a customer who read Link and gave it a 1 and a half star rating. The plot was boring and it's main idea was mundane but I noticed similarities between it and Assassin's creed, though there were very few. Then I read his sequel Village. "Book title stolen from movies and earlier books. What a shame if you consider that the author of the book lawsuits anyone who has something that may be a little tin bit similar to what he claims as his own, as long as these other people have success and earn money with it.Dear John Beiswenger, why not stay at your engineer job instead of this?"~Review by customer who read Village This guy is a dumbfounded author. What a waste of my time the book was. Bad plot and cliche ideas. And then for some unknown reason I still cannot fathom to this day I read his THIRD BOOK! Bridge. "Seriously, amateur hour, boring, huge lack of writing skills but his entire catalog is simply horrible. Save your money for a more talented author, this is just plain horrible"~Review by customer who read Bridge Once again the man fails to accomplish an even good story and I am left struggling to turn the next page and fighting my urges to sacrifice the book to the "God" he keeps preaching in his book. Sequential is gonna suck even worse. I read all those books and I realized that there are barely any similarities between his book and Assassins Creed. And the books were terrible.We know where Ubisoft's lawyers might go now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Roxas Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 Alright, Cronus, you've changed my mind. What I find interesting on Amazon is that there was only one review for Link prior to the announcement of this lawsuit. Since we actually know that his books are bad and that he's a hypocrite, that's my preferred reason for siding with Ubisoft on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cronus Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 Alright, Cronus, you've changed my mind. What I find interesting on Amazon is that there was only one review for Link prior to the announcement of this lawsuit. Since we actually know that his books are bad and that he's a hypocrite, that's my preferred reason for siding with Ubisoft on this one.This post makes me feel awesome for some reson :/Plus, Ubisoft is just strating to become major! They need a chance! First their Call of Juarez franchise goes down under and now their being sued by a hypocritical preacher who wrote crappy books? They don't need this right now. Plus Ubisoft is one of my favorite game developers along with Treyarch so of course I am a little biased. If Treyarch gets sued... Oh my God... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ∂materasu Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 Oh wow, this is terrible. Hypocrisy at it's worst.Of course, considering Ubisoft's Steam ripoff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chris Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 So am I the only one that saw half of the people in this thread going "He won't get anything because I like the game" or "He should die because of this". And these are the people that have a "problem with society nowadays." Take a look in the f***ing mirror once in a while. Also, in the current age, money is everything, it's an understandable thing for him to make a claim on this, since it's essentially a free fortune for him, with a claim that has a basis to it, at least. Whether it ends up working or not may be a different story, but as it stands I wouldn't say jumping to Ubisoft's side purely because you want to play AC3 is a good reason. Personally I don't care, I don't like the AC games anyway, but if they have stolen from his ideas then they should pay the price. Admittedly I only skimmed the thread after page 1, so I may have missed something, but eh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burnpsy Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 Chris makes a good point. Really, guys? Even if it's stupid, law is law. I'm in an especially good position to say that, given that I've just finished my second year of studying law. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ∂materasu Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 ^^Post #50 is of interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burnpsy Posted April 30, 2012 Report Share Posted April 30, 2012 The fact that nobody has legally called him out on his own books has no actual bearing on the suit. It simply means that he's too small a target for big publishers to bother with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shradow Posted July 31, 2012 Report Share Posted July 31, 2012 Has there been any news on this? It's been a few months so I was wondering if anything had changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Roxas Posted July 31, 2012 Report Share Posted July 31, 2012 Apparently it was dropped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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