What's on your mind?

[kyonides]

There's something else that might encourage you to stop doing such things. It's called getting good friends. If you know that everybody around you is smoking, drinking like stinkin' sailors or  pirates, then it'd be a hell lot harder for you to quit. Bad acquaintances, because they're not friends at all, will always drag you down. That's the only world they know. What did you expect from them? God bless you.

Concerning the RM series, well, the concept isn't new or surprising anymore. It's been around for... 30 years or so? It's hard to be innovative. Then some people come up with crazy ideas like making all characters get blocks for heads. One game or two with such feature could be acceptable but dozens or hundreds of them with that same formula!?

Of course, most people use game engines to make their dream fan games.  
Why would they care about originality?
Then there comes companies like Nintendo chasing down pretty much anybody developing a suspicious Pokemon fangame.
But you know, I think there was a time when one individual truly believed he could sell such a fan game knowing beforehand that it would not end up very well.  So who can blame N for that?

And there's also DOTA that's pretty much a fan remake of Warcraft. It's been a success, yet, the creators of the original base game lost millions because of neglecting their rights as developers and producers.

Oh and there comes a whole different discussion on how Activision / Blizzard became a blood sucking company...