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How many times do I ask myself if I'll ever have someone trying to copy my style/s whenever I see someone complaining about some fucktard stealing their ideas, shortly modifying them and claiming its their original work or everyone who's put incredible effort in something only to have the same fucktard try to give themselves popularity by showing it off without even mentioning the original creator?

How many times do I ask myself if I'm actually worth the attention of people who browse over all the stuff I work for, and if anybody'll ever try imittating me in a good plan?

How many times do I think how much I hate copycats?

Many times. How many times I've had someone steal what I worked on and had it used without permission or express consent from me, its creator? Once. When? Apparently ever since January 22 of this year, and when did I notice? Fucking today.

I won't mention his name here, because I'll leave it up to everyone's interpretation with the links I'm going to provide below, but I'm extremely pissed off at this person. Why? Because I considered him a good friend right until he decided to turn into a complete intolerant dick the moment he began to disagree with me in my game, Zanea's Tales, posted in this forum's Traditional RPGs Pad ever since 2007. After that, I simply chose to forget about him to pursue no sort of hard feelings. What did he do? He made a forum for himself. I discovered that today.

What did he do there? He started making RPGs that are all based on the gameplay style from Zanea's Tales, a forum game I worked my ass off to continously improve for its players and all this time I've still been working on it and still plan to do it to entertain people with it. He's stealing my work, using everything I've done in his forum for players that probably believe he's the original creator behind the gameplay system, the battlefield design and the character sheets alongside everything else.

Fuck no, that's not originality, buddy. That's fucking plagiarism. I won't go to his forum to start a flame war with him because he's shown he's a no-faced bastard with absolute no talent or balls to even ask if I'd give my permission for him to rip me off. Hell, Sacchi (Whose honesty I thank) asked me via PMs if he could use the game in his own forum and I politely said no because the game's a WIP and I don't plan on publicly handing it out to people yet, I want to perfect it, and this idiotic faggot in search for creativity decides to just go and use my designs without any sort of permission. I don't know who put him above moral standards, but I feel completely irritated, angry, indignated and worst of all, betrayed.

I fucking can't believe there's people who once could've called themselves friends of others and still do something as low as steal for what THEY KNOW the other has worked their ass off to perfect and not give a single shred of credit for it.

http://eternaldream.forummotion.com/char...d-t298.htm

http://www.digiartistsdomain.org/phpboar...p?tid=7718

Just compare them. Browse his "Original RPG" forum pad, you don't need to register. Just check how his originality sprouts to bloom and every fucking player there buys it. I don't know about you all, but an untalented fuck who does things such as these out of harsh feelings is far from pitiable, I doubt even if I spent the whole night searching in English dictionaries I'd find a good translation for the insult I have in mind for him.

Some may say copying is the highest form of flattery, which I think is a load of bullshit. Honestly from what I have seen he didn't even bother to put any effort into it. Oh ok he changed a few names here and there, but hell the character sheets are copy and paste of original and the level schemes are the same.

This is the reason why the good ideas are never shared anymore or are placed as paid content because greedly little assholes with no creative ideas decides hey I'll copy that and let me have my fame in my own pathetic little world. And because the internet remains the one place in the world that unregulated copyrights don't mean dick all. It's the main reason why I stopped posting stories on any sites because I had a story stolen from me from another would be author and claim because he simply changed the name of the characters and the title he said it was his. Now I only write for myself or my close friends.


It's regrettable that this dick, especially a member on this fourm, decided to rip you off blantely and not place credit where due credit is deserved. I know it doesn't mean much in the grand scheme old friend, but I'm sorry that someone pulled this shit on you.

And upon further inspection of his forum: http://eternaldream.forummotion.com/rule...eam-t1.htm

Look at his tenth rule. Not only a faceless mop, but also a hypocritic one as well.

It annoys me the most that he was once your friend, I mean, it's one thing if he didn't know who you were, but he was once your friend, and he has the gall to produce a carbon copy of your hard work and not even mention your efforts in improving it? That's just wrong, Boss! Want I should go over and drop an STD bomb?

I have literally no comment. Guess people suck more then we expect them to.

On the note of ZT3, you might want to find a way to keep it out of the normal public eyes but still find a way to let people know it's being played, so he too can't steal these new ideas. Because it seems he's taking the idea as it develops.

Thanks Ray, but I don't have raising hell in his forums in mind. That'd be mean towards his members, I was thinking of confronting him personally but unfortunately my options are limited, he can censor or ban me from his forum if I join and contacting him here is not precisely what I think will work considering here's where I gave him the boot for flying off the handle during ZT2.

And I know, Nath, but ZT3's project is already out there and it's been for weeks. Mike suggested I get a patent on this, but seriously, let's be realist, it's just a pocket project I decided to develop here, I don't have intentions on starting to charge for it or sell it to people, I only do it out of love and to let people have fun. I'm not alright with people using it, yet, because it's a WIP that has a lot of room towards improvement, like I told Sacchi, but if people are THAT desperate to add to their forum's entertainment because they can't come up with anything new themselves then I suppose I could obligue but really, asking for permission is the first step to make use of others' intellectual property. Or at least, if you're gonna plagiarise without permission, have the gall to admit it's not your original work and give credit to its creator.

I don't care what he says, I know and I've known all this time that the one who came up with the idea is me and only me, the forum's post dates back me up and so does the testimony of many DaD members, it's just at the time of me discovering what he had done I really got my blood boiling there, even if I was continously revising the facts and how everything stands to support me and not him, I still was angry and couldn't keep it in. Got it all free now so I'll stop swearing or using strong language where it's not really necessary.

Unfortunity Kyo, with the net being unregulated copyrights and patients don't mean anything. The only way I could think of DMX keeping it from being stolen would be to lock it on a pay site, but then that forces the members who joined ZT to pay for a game that like DMX said was just for fun. Even then there will always be assholes that will take a pay site idea and try to make it there own. It's the sad truth of humanity. There are always some parasites kicking around. All I can say is I won't be participating in any roleplay or games with him now it's been revealed he's a theft and a leecher.

Send him a PM saying that he's blatantly ripping off your game, and if he's going to continue with it, to at least credit you?

Giving links to the original Zanea's with the dates is irrefutable proof. He can't deny it.

He did this? That doesn't seem like him...

He did, but he proved me wrong when I thought he had no moral standards, too. The odds evened out, and I don't feel angry anymore. From now on though, and to avoid any possible similar issue, I'll place a claimer to make sure no random idiot tries to steal. Thankfully, Masquerade turned out not to be one, but I'm not sure if that's how it always will be.

Purpose of this thread is done, I'm locking it.