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What likely happened: Developer needs an official MBTA map. They do an image search. That map is one of the first five results. They take it from there and u

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• shock-value 13y ago
  Yeah and that's completely negligent if you are an artist working on the game. This is like intellectual property 101, and people in the game design field, especially at that level, should know better. Absolutely inexcusable and obviously illegal as well.
  • alex_doom 13y ago
    As someone who's worked in production. Mostly likely someone was told to find an image for FPO purposes, and it escaped QA rounds OR the production dept said something and a manager told them to "fuck off no one is going to notice". That's an actual quote from an old manager.
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• snogglethorpe 13y ago
  I agree. It's understandable that he's annoyed, and by all means he should pursue the matter and get due recompense, but still, his reaction seems a wee bit over the top. If he were to be polite and businesslike, and arrange a mutually agreeable deal, who knows, maybe he could find himself as the go-to guy for game companies that need a transit map.... I wouldn't be surprised if N.D.'s official policies are much stricter, and would normally call for any art to be freely-available/purchased/redrawn/etc, but in this case the artist found a map, had a tight deadline, and thought to himself "oh, all these maps look the same, who's gonna notice"... [The answer obviously is: "Transit map nerds are gonna notice, that's who...especially the one who drew the map..." :] I've read the Transit Maps blog for ages, and it's a great blog; over the top or not, the reaction's kinda in character... oO;