Duplicate S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Assets Drawn From Texture Packs

Damn! I bought the game because I thought it had pirated textures.
Figured the initial release might become a collector's item.
Oh well, back to my pirated version.

But, I highly doubt that marlin sells the texture with "imp" in it... yes the textures can be bought... but doesn't mean that gsc actually bought them.

:)

but but...but... it's a russian company, they must have stolen something....no?

Stereotypes biting the mainstream in the butt folks :P

Too bad a lot of people have already tagged GSC as the crazy piracy-based russian developer from out of nowhere who drink vodka and copy assets. I wonder how many of them will actually get wind of this follow-up.

I think we all knew this was the usual shoddy 'shock' journalism at work. Nothing to see, move along.

PS. STALKER is pretty darn fun.

hahahaha Id and Valve actually had to use Marlin Studios packs? lol

Talk about cheap... Even I use those for my renders.

We...err...knew that all along right, guys? Right?

tucks the 'Jump to Conclusions' mat under the bed

And I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those darn kids...

is this why our games are all grey and dark brown now? lolz..

id may well have used Marlin for some D3 base textures, and the Valve link seemed reasonable for a pack. Similar or near-identical content shows up all the time from one game to the next as a result of licensing source material.

I'd expect Marlin would advertise id directly, though, as they're a studio independent of Activision (they didn't advertise EA or Vivendi in lieu of Valve, and id's a big client to have). Minor issue, though.

But even if id licensed out their light materials (I would venture not likely, but who knows), what are the odds of there being 25 near identical light textures with identical names, only prefixed by "lights_" in the stalker install? Some, are generic, sure, but some are more specific - What are the odds of Marlin or any other company licensing out a light image named "impflash?" Why on earth would Stalker or any game without imps include any image named "impflash?"

Even if the light images are licensed by id in the first place, they're almost certainly still lifted from D3 given that no one bothered to rename them and the files. Will anyone go after them for it? doubtful. But still theft, and still lame, however small the content may be.

people were SO ready to turn this into a witch hunt.

assholes.

Yeah where are the people calling for lawsuits? I guess moved on to gun control debating by now?

I am actully suprised the guys at IDS/Valve did not come out sooner then this. You can't tell me that they did not know about it and within a few hours after it hit the internet.

Good wook Hardly boys!

Glad to hear that the STALKER guys weren't in the wrong on this one.

I wonder if people would have assumed that Valve or id had stolen assets from STALKER had the release dates been the other way around. I doubt it somehow.

Oh, and now all the people who were saying "so they ripped a handful of textures from doom so it's ok to pirate STALKER" can go and buy a copy now :)

Going through the first thread on April 6th with everyone going crazy about how shameful it was and blah blah, it's just sickening.

It just goes to show the majority of people just have NO IDEA what goes at all when it comes to making games but they love to talk like they do. Even more than that people love a scandal!

I hope Shack keeps this as a news item for a couple days, to give the truth the same amount of exposure as the claim had. Unlike newspaper where 99% of coverage is the claim and if someone is vindicated it's a 1 paragraph blurb deep in the paper.

oh god when you work in the industry you see the same source material all over the place.

Everyone searches for the same crap in google image search.

"Concrete"

All the time we see stuff and its like, hey, I used that too, wtf!

Bit of a shame the way the media jumped on their backs about this, I don't think this would of been reported the same way if it was an American company.

I'm glad to see the shack has also reported this as well as the original story on the front page. not that i ever doubted they would :]

Well, that's a relief.

Nice to see both sides of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. story covered.