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Originally Posted by Spirited
I can understand your position, but I don't think you see the full picture. If we're just talking about the basic principle of Conquer Online development, then I'd agree. Nothing is really its own, owned entity when you're essentially stealing everything that sits underneath your work. Now, from a workmanship standpoint as a game developer or artist of the community, plagiarism should be heavily scrutinized. This is someone's hard work and should be respected as such - especially if their livelihood depends on their work here. Realistically, what good does letting people steal your content do for your pocket and server growth?
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I see the whole picture though. An artist created all of the assets and resources that came to be known as Conquer Online. All of us here have just taken those assets, without permission of the artist, without crediting the artist, and profited (in some cases). It is only a problem when someone follows the same process with an artist in the community. Sure I can see your point, it's "different" because it is someone within the community/someone "close" to us. But it's not different, we still rip off an artist somewhere.