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🌟May the 4th Be with STO - 2021 Edition!🌟
stocostumes
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Note: posting a little early because I will be gone most of the day tomorrow...
It's the time again! May the 4th, 2021! And to celebrate, the /r/stocostumes team brings you...
🌟 The Really Big Star Wars Costume Gallery!!! 🌟
For anyone interested in cosplaying their favorite characters from a galaxy far, far away, all of these costumes are available for download here.
We hoped to have pictures of the sliders available this year, but unfortunately real life got in the way. However we will definitely have the sliders ready to go next year so those who play on console can recreate the costumes too.
But we didn't just post this thread to share our costumes, we also want to see yours! If you have created a Star Wars inspired character or crew, please post some pics!
Live Long, and May the 4th Be With You...Always! 😀
It's the time again! May the 4th, 2021! And to celebrate, the /r/stocostumes team brings you...
🌟 The Really Big Star Wars Costume Gallery!!! 🌟
For anyone interested in cosplaying their favorite characters from a galaxy far, far away, all of these costumes are available for download here.
We hoped to have pictures of the sliders available this year, but unfortunately real life got in the way. However we will definitely have the sliders ready to go next year so those who play on console can recreate the costumes too.
But we didn't just post this thread to share our costumes, we also want to see yours! If you have created a Star Wars inspired character or crew, please post some pics!
Live Long, and May the 4th Be With You...Always! 😀
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As memory serves, some time back Kael said what players do with their own characters is considered "fan art". The rules about likeness applied to foundry missions, because once published those missions were actually part of the game's content and something Cryptic could potentially be held accountable for.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
It's technically a no no but it's not really enforced, I remember back in the day Cryptic won a lawsuit over this very matter (for Champions and Marvel characters but still essentially the same thing). As long as you're not using those for profit or asking Cryptic add them as official content it should be OK.
Just to clarify, I wasn't giving you my opinion. I am telling you what I recall Kael saying. If you think he is wrong, you can take that up with him. But I'm guessing he or whatever people gave him that info probably have a better understanding of what is or isn't ok than we do.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Not really - the case was looking like it was going to go Cryptic's way, but in the end, there was a out of court settlement in December 2005; the case was dropped and MARVEL contracted Cryptic to create a 'Marvel Universe Online' MMO - but during development Microsoft backed out; and Marvel cancelled its plans; so Cryptic retooled the game into what became "Champions Online".
PWE ARC Drone says: "Your STO forum community as you have known it is ended...Display names are irrelevant...Any further sense of community is irrelevant...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated..."
There is no need to start insulting anyone. But still, the point remains: the CM has already commented on the matter, so there is really no point in armchair lawyers debating about it.
Although the actual comment has been lost to the internet (I can't remember whether he said it on reddit, twitter, or a livestream), it was made around the time this article came out:
https://massivelyop.com/2020/01/02/star-wars-comes-to-star-trek-online-thanks-to-some-creative-use-of-the-character-builder/
Cryptic is clearly aware people have fun making costumes based on non-Trek things, and the last stated position is what people do with their own character costumes is considered 'fan art' and not something they are going to moderate, with the obvious exception of anything hate/secks related.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
It was Marvel vs. Cryptic's City of Heroes.
They had people go into the game and try to duplicate Marvel characters to claim that their copyrights and trademarks were being infringed, even though it was a major policy on Cryptic's part to curtail any infringement.
Marvel lost, and then spun everyone's head around when they approached Cryptic with making a Marvel MMO along with Xbox. It went south fast, with Marvel going on to make terrible games where players had to be trademarked Marvel characters and could not make original characters set in their Multiverse.
Cryptic ended up buying Champions and used what assets they were creating for the Marvel MMO to build upon what was to be Champions online.
Actually, no; it's not "ok" with me. (Not that I can do anything about it, but since you asked). The reason it's not "ok" with me is because instead of any discussion whatsoever about the actual pictures the OP posted or anything positive or fun, your entire point is that you think it's breaking some kind of rule. Despite the fact that the CM has already given his stance on it. So no, your "discussion" isn't very productive IMO. It's essentially off topic, TBH.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Nah, not quite "happy" yet. But it's a big damn improvement, that's for sure!
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
A big reason behind why they lost is it turns out that most of the 'violators' were Marvel employees.​​
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Saying that you can't use company A's product to recreate company B's character is absurd when it has no commercial use. Think about that real hard for a minute.
What if little Jimmy draws Spiderman with Crayola crayons to show off to the class? Is Crayola infringing Marvel? Is little Jimmy infringing Marvel? That is fundamentally the same argument as using character creator assets to do the same sort of thing.
Personally, when a terrible company gets greedy and starts litigating over stuff like that, that is when I no longer buy that company's product. I haven't seen a single Marvel movie since Blade, and that remains solely because of their lawsuit against Cryptic and CoH back in the day.
It isn't just up to courts to decide it, but also public opinion. Consider if everyone in STO likes to go around dressed as their favorite Star Wars character on May 4, Disney/Lucasfilm would be morons to shut that down with a lawsuit. Number one its free advertising. Number two it would generate a huge amount of bad will (and they already have plenty of that.)
CBS would be equally moronic to shut that down, as even if people are dressing as characters from another IP, they are doing so while playing within CBS' own IP making CBS money.
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"