The really un-funny part about this, is that I was the first person to coin the upcoming three XBLA games as the "Pub Games".
I'm unhappy to announce I will probably never get credit for it either, due to my low ass rank in the XBLA hierarchy. Truth be told by my google gamertag link
HERE.
I am the head writer for
XboxLiveArcade.com and in one of my first articles I coined the "Fable 2 Pub Games" title back before September of 2007. WTF?
Don't get me wrong, I'm flattered! As a published writer and poet, I'm used to this behaviour. I wrote and even created comic book characters for independent publishers in-between stories and poems. Some of those characters were used without my permission. Too this day, 2 or 3 of them are still used with no royalties to me because some low scum sucking bottom dweller stole my shart and is sucking royalties from something they will never be able to re-create because they are hacks!! This isn't the first time someone has seen fit to take an idea from me...
Perhaps, just one day... someone will give me credit for what I've actually contributed. Sony.... thanks for the opportunity to beta your original PS. I can say that now. No disclosure. And that's all I can say about anything else, outside of the fact I don't work for Sony or Microsoft (XBL). Microsoft, Dell, HP, and IBM (old eh): you all suck!!
Back to the subject...
LIONHEAD STUDIOS, UK, FABLE 2.... nice name for your XBLA games. Perhaps you might want to check yourself and your sources. I ate your dog, your trees, and your metro-sexual characters before you coined the phrase "Pub Games".
Most people still don't even know that the three games included in the "Pub Games" were pre-made rejects before Fable 2 and Lionhead Studios rescued them from Microsoft... am I pissed? You bet your ass, your tail, your front, bottom, top and thoughts, I am!!!
As always, in my experience with this kind of "Creative Rip-off and Plagiarism" (it's called C.R.A.P. in the marketing circle) - when a little man in a big company steals ideas from others like me to make themselves look good it always goes unnoticed by said big company as it's just little me.
>> I wasn't going to post this... but after a few drinks (LOL)... I said "F*CK IT!!" <<