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- On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Johan Klockars wrote:
-
- > Are we really sure about that?
- > I think it would actually be a very good idea to include a totally free
- > WAD _and_ some separate textures and graphics/sounds to use with it.
- > Then BAD MOOD can be claimed to just "happen" to be DOOM compatible. ;-)
-
- That's the only way, I think... Ids lawyers (yes, they certainly have
- ones ;-) wouldn't accept any purposeful imitations. U.S. laws _are_ weird
- and nasty... =(
-
- > > What do you think? It will need some modifications but IMHO the earlier
- > > effort was a bit too flattering for ID, the Mood programmers should be
- > > more proud about their effort.
- >
- > Back when the original email was sent, there wasn't really anything to
- > be proud of yet. I do think this kind of letter should have a tone similar
- > to what we wrote, but that's just IMHO (which might change).
-
- It's good you sent a message to them. It may give us some hope that DOOM
- by large is an "old-fashioned thing" in PC-world now. People go crazy
- about things like Descent, Quake (are those the same game..?), Pentium-
- only games for Win 95. Id might not take a DOOM-clone so seriously
- anymore, if we're lucky. But then again, they _should_ take it seriously
- enough to answer us...
-
- I think, the tone of the message is critical. If Id thinks our Bad Mood
- will only give "them" good reputation, and perhaps get their Quake more
- buyers, they probably won't object this project. They will hardly see us
- as a commercial threat; we just have to make certain they don't see us as
- annoying nobodies they just want to get out of their sight as fast as
- possible...
-
- Tommi
-
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