14th October 2003, 6:40 PM
I gotta admit, I'd be VERY upset if I found out a company I had worked with and had done a lot of work on suddenly just abandoned me. This is Sony all over again.
However, Wizards is claiming to have invented trading card games? What about baseball cards? They never once tried suing them BEFORE this I notice. It's not like Wizard even invented the Pokemon card game. Nintendo did, and then gave Wizards the rights to produce it outside Asia. Sure, Wizards tweaked a lot of cards and such, making things more balanced in their view, but it IS Nintendo's game.
Notice that suddenly this whole Neopets thing is Wizard's latest card game? I think they just grabbed the first thing they could to get back at Nintendo.
Ya know, Nintendo's card game was loosing speed steadily anyway. It all started with Yugioh's introduction. I think Nintendo just decided to cut out before bottoming out. Wizards has already announced they will no longer be producing Pokemon cards at all (though their site was a lot friendlier about it than this lawsuit), which of course is no surprise :D.
Here's a question. Even though Nintendo is no longer with Wizards, will Nintendo still publish the old cards they already made, and if so, for how long? I guess it's pretty much dead in America, but how long will it go on in Japan? Kinda sad though, considering the numbers of kids who probably went and got an e-reader because they figured all future Pokémon cards would have this data, just to find out that here in America, it's all over.
However, Wizards is claiming to have invented trading card games? What about baseball cards? They never once tried suing them BEFORE this I notice. It's not like Wizard even invented the Pokemon card game. Nintendo did, and then gave Wizards the rights to produce it outside Asia. Sure, Wizards tweaked a lot of cards and such, making things more balanced in their view, but it IS Nintendo's game.
Notice that suddenly this whole Neopets thing is Wizard's latest card game? I think they just grabbed the first thing they could to get back at Nintendo.
Ya know, Nintendo's card game was loosing speed steadily anyway. It all started with Yugioh's introduction. I think Nintendo just decided to cut out before bottoming out. Wizards has already announced they will no longer be producing Pokemon cards at all (though their site was a lot friendlier about it than this lawsuit), which of course is no surprise :D.
Here's a question. Even though Nintendo is no longer with Wizards, will Nintendo still publish the old cards they already made, and if so, for how long? I guess it's pretty much dead in America, but how long will it go on in Japan? Kinda sad though, considering the numbers of kids who probably went and got an e-reader because they figured all future Pokémon cards would have this data, just to find out that here in America, it's all over.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)