Sony, Jaffe sued over alleged God of War copyright infringement

"both stories have bridges going over bottomless chasms"

Lordy, I hope that's not their best argument.

Jonathan Bissoon-Dath aka... Homer?!?!?

Troll-tastic

Well, ole Jaffe's blog should be interesting in the coming weeks.

Hmm... considering Jonathan Bissoon-Dath doesn't show up in imdb... I AM CERTAIN that Sony must have passed on his screenplay because they wanted to turn it into a game franchise, not because he's a shitty writer or anything....

ruh-roh!!


Indiana Jones had an Invisible Rock Bridge that was bottomless... and im sure playboy magazine has lots of bottomless too...

Also, why was Jaffe named? God of War was work-for-hire while he was at Sony, he shouldn't be legally culpable regardless of the merits of the claim...

Its gonna be REALLY hard to prove copyright infringement using public domain mythologies and one "original" character whose one primary infringing traits consist of being dark/angry and duel wielding swords.

Jaffe is a jerk, that said I don't think he stole the story, however I think it was derivative, adolescent, and generic, hence easy to sue.

http://www.amazon.com/Olympia-420-Quest-Peace/dp/0976308606

That's his book. It's also available for preview through Google Book Search.

Out of court settlement.

Wait until Sony show a teaser of the THIRD game to see how big the hype is and how much money your likely to make sueing... seriously... if the judge has any respect for his job, as soon as Jonathan Bissoon-Dath walks in the door, he should be told to... go somewhere...

Let the American litigant losers do what they do best.

I have no idea if it's true or not but what would be the implications if it did turn out to be true?

I mean does that the God of War franchise is no more? As in God of War 3 no longer is coming out?

I know it will never hit the 360 (duh) but if it doesn't hit the ps3 that just make the console even worse when it comes to games. Other than FFXIII I don't see any other game that is as much looked forward to as God of War 3

Everyone must read the whole complaint. Morph in light sabers? Holy Christ! I can't stop laugh-...oh, my God...They MORPHED into light...hahahahahaha. Uwe Boll wouldn't even... And Owen! His f**king name was Owen! Owen's Olympic Adventure! Can you imagine? "Ares! It is I, Owen! Owen Lightsaberhands!" hahahaha! Reserve your copy of LBP for a Sackboy OWEN. What a hack! Oh ,I'm going to piss myself.

Wasn't Sony hired by Nintendo to make a console, only to back out and make the N64 ... thus Sony entered the gaming ring with the system they helped develop for Nintendo?

But Sony does it better , like in-game music m the 360 played over it , but on the PS3 it BECAME the soundtrack . Life with home will be better than the Wiis because you can cure cancer .

And remember way back when Nintendo but stick on their controls , then the Sony had them , which controller was better.

What Sony does is take what other people do , make it better , than sprinkle their own innovations on it . (Dualshock , Cell , BD , Life with playstation , etc.)

So yeas , Sony copies and innovates.

yet another reminder of God of War 3 and how much I want the game. God damnit.

You've got to be kidding.

Everyone's trying for a quick buck these days, ridiculous.

"Plaintiffs are further informed and believe and thereon allege that the defendants and each of them, once having gained access to plaintiffs' original works, recognized the powerful potential of the original works to be recast as a successful story-based video game."

For some reason seeing that statement shrouded in legalese made me laugh out loud.

Side note: When I wanted to read the full complaint the link ("http://complaint/") on this article is borked, so I had to click through to gamepolitics and go from there.

I wrote a story for my high school english class back in 1985 about a hack writer suing a large entertainment company for ripping off their story for a video game.

I guess I'm suing!

The level of stupidity on the Internet never ceases to amaze.

If thats the case, they should sue history, most of the locations in God of war are based on places that existed in Greek Mythology seeing as how the Story is based on greek mythology.

You can't do anything without getting sued these days, and guess what, the Suer waits all the way till now to sue. lmao

@Kspraydad

care to elaborate?

It's not like there's anything in the story that hasn't been done a million times before.

I wonder why they are waiting 4-5 years after the first game, mmnn i think someone needs money and the best they could come up with is this, very sad, very sand indeed.

Hmm. This one reminds me of the spurious "muggle" lawsuit that some hack tried to bring against J.K. Rowling. This author sued Rowling and WB... and ended up having to pay 50 grand in court costs due to their fabricated evidence and obvious gold-digging.

So these things sometimes don't work out as planned for the opportunistic parasites. Which is what it looks like these "Olympiad" guys are.

Oh I can, cookie... because you're just so stupid it's cute.

"This wouldn't surprise me one bit. Sony is notorious for copying other people's work or technology. It is ingrained in their overall philosophy."
Show me ONE company that doesn't take anothers ideas an innovates. If we didn't have companies doing this and pushing the industry, we, as gamers, would be looking forward to... Odyssey III due out sometime Holiday 09. Seriously, you're grade A fucking retarded for even indicating this much. "Sony stole from Nintendo." Nintendo stole from Sega, Atari, and Amiga, you prick. Or do you really think that whole "GBA/GCN" connection thing was totally innovative and not like Dreamcast hooking up with NGPC at all?

Let's not forget the main selling point of the SNES was the phenominal sound chip. Guess who made it? Kuturugi himself.

"Piggybacking on Nintendo and stealing their business structure that led to the PS1,"
Look up your history. PSX was supposed to be the CD-ROM for SNES. Actually, Ken Kuturugi nearly lost his job when he agreed to make the SNES sound chip without permission from the Sony heads. He was on thin ground with PSX. It wasn't until Nintendo betrayed Sony at CES for the American company, Philips, (something unheard of by Japanese businesses then and even now) that Sony even had any interest in the gaming industry. Was Sony supposed to walk away from the $100 million spent deving the PSX?

"undermining all of Nintendo's relationships with third party publishers,"
Common misconception... Nintendo never HAD relationships with third party publishers. Fact of the matter is, Nintendo was a bunch of fucking pricks back then. Having Sony approach the third parties while being nice was basically unheard of. Whereas Nintendo's corporate slogan at the time might as well have been "Nintendo, cause what the fuck else are you going to put your games on?"

"stealing an achievement system and touting it as superior,"
I partially agree with this one since Trophies, like Achievement Points, are fucking retarded and do nothing. As for who invented them... gee, let's look back at the very first Ratchet & Clank. Of course they were called Skill Points and actually UNLOCKED content and bonuses, so in a way, Advantage Sony because they are STILL one of the few companies making nerd points worth a damn.

"waiting for the competition to fully flesh out their online gaming features so they can just snatch them away and call them their own."

Sega Dreamcast called. He says he wants his online back. Seriously, everything is evolution and no offense there guy, but PC users have been doing Xbox Live since Counter-Strike. Cept they've been doing it for free.

"Sony when are you going to stop pretending to be innovative?"
Gee, I don't know... Sony had a rough start during the PSX days to be certain. By the time PS2 rolled around, they were shapping up quite nicely. Last year, they had the highest review averages of all three console makers. Funny thing, that. A company that went from a joke with 989 and co managing to become one of the most innovative and imaginative studios in the world. And without constantly leening on the same IPs as well.

oh yeah, Weird Al baby!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfO9JUNXN7U