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Real Name Derek French   
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Description Producer, Live Team
BioWare
Homepage http://www.bioware.com/
Signed On May 27, 2000, 19:09
Total Comments 209 (Novice)
User ID 5028
 
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News Comments > Game Guidance
1. Its been around for about 2 years Jun 26, 2006, 12:33  CrushBug 
 
Just noting that this site has been around for at least 2 years.

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News Comments > etc., etc.
8. Re: I can just picture all the EA Execs Jun 16, 2006, 01:24  CrushBug 
 
If game developers are anything like gamers, than they tend to be lazy, procrastinative people.

Wow. Then I don't work with a single gamer. Sad, really...

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News Comments > Ships Ahoy - Harpoon 3: Advanced Naval Warfare
2. Just found my old boxed Harpoon Jun 15, 2006, 12:20  CrushBug 
 
This is interesting. I was just cleaning my office last weekend and I found my boxed edition of Harpoon.

Going to have to pick this one up!

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News Comments > Blizzard Denies MMO Rumors
17. Zergling! Jun 14, 2006, 15:44  CrushBug 
 
Rats, I wanted to play in a Starcraft MMO and be a zergling and die in a rush 20 minutes into each of my play sessions!



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News Comments > Rise of Legends Patch
2. Re: New? Jun 9, 2006, 14:24  CrushBug 
 
Ditto

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News Comments > No Premium Module Program for NWN2?
4. Clarifications Jun 8, 2006, 12:51  CrushBug 
 
The existing Premium modules are not shutting down nor are they going to stop being sold.

Currently, there are no plans for any future NWN1 Premium Modules at this time.

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News Comments > Jade Empire PC
7. 'marital' arts? May 8, 2006, 16:24  CrushBug 
 
BioWare's marital arts-themed RPG

Actually, all the marriage stuff has been cut and we want to concentrate on the martial arts.

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News Comments > Source Engine Patches
5. Re: No subject Apr 19, 2006, 22:00  CrushBug 
 
What ads?

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News Comments > New Games at E3
1. ALL CAPS HURTS MY EYES! Apr 19, 2006, 16:29  CrushBug 
 
All caps hurts my eyes.

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News Comments > Rise of Nations Demo Tomorrow
4. WHOOT! Mar 30, 2006, 12:02  CrushBug 
 
Fan-foogoo-tastic!

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News Comments > Gold - NA Space Rangers 2
13. No SF in NA Mar 17, 2006, 21:11  CrushBug 
 
I read on a few places that SR2 will not be using Starforce in North America. That may not be correct, but it has been posted about on a few forums.

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News Comments > Battlefield 2142?
24. BF2142? Feb 15, 2006, 22:46  CrushBug 
 
BF2142? I would be all up in that kitchen...

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News Comments > etc.
7. Peeps and not suing Feb 13, 2006, 16:20  CrushBug 
 
If you think that this is the first thing with the red cross and video games in the last 15 years, you would be very wrong.

They are NOT suing, they are notifying the game companies. Nowhere does it say that there have been lawsuits filed. Ceist and Desist orders are pretty easy to write.

The Red Cross is only supposed to be used in specific situations as outlined by international law and supported by major governments (US and Canada included) and this has NOTHING to do with trademarks or lawsuits.

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News Comments > etc.
2. Re: Canadian Red Cross... Feb 13, 2006, 14:12  CrushBug 
 
Yeah, have to agree with you there. And its important to remember that its not just the Canadian Red Cross, but that the American Red Cross has been doing it as well and for many years.

And its NEVER been about trademarks, because you cannot trademark the red cross in Canada or the US, because this is covered under international law and the Geneva Convention.

You are only supposed to use it for the specific purposes outlined there and nothing else. Its pretty simple.

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News Comments > Sunday Q&As
22. Re: What to use instead of red crosses Feb 13, 2006, 12:09  CrushBug 
 
#19

http://www.yourdictionary.com/images/ahd/jpg/A4caduce.jpg

Quake 4 used them.

http://www.shacknews.com/images/image-o-matic.x?quake4/051605_quake4.jpg

http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/quake4/Quake+4/2/thumbs/091605_q4_mp_1.jpg

http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/quake4/Quake+4/2/thumbs/091605_q4_mp_3.jpg

And I didn't even notice that they WEREN'T red crosses and I knew they were medics.

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News Comments > Sunday Q&As
12. No subject Feb 12, 2006, 21:35  CrushBug 
 
If you think that this is the first time in the last 2 years that a video game has been asked to stop using the Red Cross symbol, you would be mistaken.

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News Comments > Sunday Q&As
5. No subject Feb 12, 2006, 16:46  CrushBug 
 
http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/5KZE8S?OpenDocument

Its covered under international law and this has nothing to do with Trademarks or Copyright. The Red Cross has a solid case AND I credit the guy for talking about it first, not just tossing lawyers around and filing lawsuits.

In the US, its a Federal crime to use the Red Cross logo except for the use that was spelled out in the above link.

TITLE 18, PART I, CHAPTER 33, § 706

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News Comments > NwN Bundled
14. Wow, late news Dec 20, 2005, 19:07  CrushBug 
 
Heh, its wierd to read about this, considering that its been out for about a month now. It also includes the first 3 Premium Modules that we sell from the BioWare Store with the ability to play them off line.

Other names we threw around at Atari marketing - just append "Edition" to the end of it:

Adamantium
Depeted Uranium
Atmospherium
Mithril
Quantum Singularity
OMFGLTBTLB (you figure it out)

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News Comments > New GeForce Drivers
7. Hope it fixes the Q4 slowdown Nov 23, 2005, 12:12  CrushBug 
 
I was using the non-WHQL drivers and I was getting huge frame rate hits in Q4. Hope these ones fix that.

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News Comments > BioWare and Pandemic Join
46. Re: You have got to be fucking kidding Nov 3, 2005, 20:48  CrushBug 
 
He is now ceo of Bioware
Ray and Greg are still Joint CEOs of BioWare.

We are not going to be changing the way we make games. Quality is the first priority and this is going to be reflected in us going forward and making "event games" - games that are tied to their release event, not to any fiscal quarter or some such.

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