Saw the link on EQlive today about the new EQ book series. And is it just me, or are SoE just trying to cash in on a popular name? (never read anything from Salvatore myself btw, but hear hes popular).
I quote from EQlive:
Great news for gamers: the Everquest universe is now in print too!
Bestselling author R. A. Salvatore presents a brand-new series of Everquest fantasy novels, giving fans a whole new way to explore the ever-expanding world of swords and sorcery.
The first in the series, "A Rogue's Hour" by Scott Ciencin, is Available Online Now!
And it will be available in bookstores on October 18th!
Seems like the only thing Salvatore got to do with this novel are having his name slapped on the front, as both the article and the picture clearly show that the writer are Scott Ciencin.
Whats your thought on this practice?
"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich"
Unless this book mentions l33t rogue hax0rz it's not a true everquest book. Everquest lore has been a complete waste since LDoN's release, and this is just a poor attempt to exploit it. Unfortunately this looks like nothing more than another money scheme from Sony, which probably won't do well, as half the players today haven't read a novel in their life.
I've always wanted to WRITE a novel about EQ. I started some short stories years ago, quit them after my then gf convinced me I'd get sued off of my ass if SoE ever found out about it.
I'll buy this as soon as I see it and I imagine I'll love every bit of it.
Akaran of Mistmoore, formerly Akaran of Veeshan I know I'm good at what I do, but I know I'm not the best.
But I guess that on the other hand, I could be like the rest.
I was told by SoE legal some time ago that compiling lore stories people wrote about their EQ characters, and even stories about in game events that were held by one of my former guilds (Ogre-Mak, what a friggin blast), and publishing those, would be infringement on SoE's trademarks and they would bring legal action.
There is nothing wrong, however, with using your character's stories and plotlines, and changing the elements that are trademarked elements of the EQ world (e.g., the town of "Fremensport" instead of "Freeport")...
Salvatore is a player of EQ. What he is doing is editing the book series and perhaps doing some of the story planning. He is letting someone else do the actual heavy lifting. Unfortunately, he sold out but he did it with Wizards of the Coast first by putting his name on the Dark Elf books.
Llaffer wrote:If that was true, they would have shut down Woody years ago, instead he's one of the well known members of the EQ Community.
Same with Jeremy's work in wtfcomics.
That's what I thought too! Apparently they differentiate between web comics given out for free and narrative that is printed, published and distributed...
Adelrune Argenti wrote:Salvatore is a player of EQ. What he is doing is editing the book series and perhaps doing some of the story planning. He is letting someone else do the actual heavy lifting. Unfortunately, he sold out but he did it with Wizards of the Coast first by putting his name on the Dark Elf books.
Yeah, I was going to mention that he did it before with a Wizards series. War of the Spider Queen or something? He apparently did the story/plot planning and left it up to other writers to actually write the novels, iirc.
Llaffer wrote:If that was true, they would have shut down Woody years ago, instead he's one of the well known members of the EQ Community.
Same with Jeremy's work in wtfcomics.
That's what I thought too! Apparently they differentiate between web comics given out for free and narrative that is printed, published and distributed...
This is what I originally said :
as long as you freely distribute it
It's the freely distribute that makes a difference.
So if you write stores and post them on a web site, that should still count towards the "creative license" or whatever that part of the copyright law is.
