Ted

Take a book. It's already protected by copyright, but if 'book patents' existed, you'd be able to patent "System and method of unlikely hero accepting his fate and saving the day", then suing anyone who used that archetype. That's whats been happening to software, and even our own genes.

Software Patents ruined the industry, and you could not go out, start a company, and develop good software right now. Why? Because thousands of people have patented these obvious methods, and they're patenting ideas, not inventions that actually function. They will find you and sue you if your product is successful. You could fight it, but it would take so long and cost so much that you might as well pay the patent troll.

This guy is a dick.

Rumor falls flat.

This is obviously meant to be Battlefield 1943, which is coming out in June for consoles and September for PC.

Heroes is already in public (private, but keys are everywhere) beta for PC, so that doesn't make sense.

There hasn't been a queue for months, ever since they did some serious backend work.

Those who registered when the queue was still in place even got an achievement, Queue Live ;)

I feel sorry for all of the innocent employees at 3DRealms, but what management was doing is essentially taking money and setting it on fire.

Too Human didn't take all that time as an active project, neither did TF2. Both of those were shelved while the studios did other things.

DNF was the main focus of 3DRealms for 13 years and they still couldn't finish it. This game would *not* have been completed under them, and their death means that come competent studio can pick it up.

@vidikron: Because Steam has been giving us unlimited redownloads of games we've purchased since 2002, and if we don't get that right from other digital distribution stores, why use them?