There are not enough Darth Vaders in the world to yell "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

The smartest part about the Cease and Desist is that Square Enix not only loses existing fans, but any new fans who would have been made aware of Chrono through blogs, fansites, and forums creating positive interest in their IP.

Think of all the money they've saved.

The funny thing about resurrection was it wasn't even a full game, it was just gonna be a 7-8 of the major scenes in the game redone in 3D. I think Chrono Resurrection could of went on had they just changes all the names then square couldn't say shit because they then not using any copyrighted material. But this fan project did have every right to be shut down, it's sad yes, but they were using all of squares copyrighted material to make a new game.

Now, I hope Japan sees this so they realize what Square-Fail-Enix is doing to them too.

I really don't understand this kind of behaviour. Developers/publishers who do this are fucking stupid. All this achieves is to generate ill feeling from fans and the people who poured thousands of hours into a project and for what? Just because they can. Spiteful dickheads.

Maybe they are afraid that fan made games might impact on the sales of re-re-re-re-releases of their games.

Square Enix suck.

Well, I am hugely against game piracy, but I think between this and Resurrection, Square can metaphorically suck it. Now where's my eyepatch...

That's terrible. I don't see Nintendo stopping all of the SMW hacks out there, nor are they doing anything against the few Super Metroid hacks...

You suck, Square. =\

To commemorate this move by Square it is advised not to buy but download next title from this publisher.

@SephirothX: Amen brother. How many good mods could have ghosted out under the radar if they'd just kept low? I mean everyone wants they're hard work appreciated, but the man will always try to keep you down. The nail that sticks up will always be the one hammered down.

How the mighty have fallen.

I wish I could feel more sympathy considering the work they put into this; but this sort of fan game always seemed sort of waste to me.

I mean, if you have the time, ability and resources to actually make a game yourself, why just redo someone else's? You could... *GASP*... MAKE YOUR OWN! A little originality can't hurt you... and looking at this, it seems it might even save you from legal action at that.

Just make your own shit and this won't happen, kids. :P

I used to feel vaguely bad if I pirated a Square/Squeenix game, as I've always tried to buy all titles that I feel are worth owning. This includes all FF main series games except 11, Xenogears and of course Chrono Trigger & Cross.

I won't feel bad any longer. In fact, i'm not likely to pay for ANY further Squeenix games after this. Grats on alientating a large portion of your most loyal fans S/E!

It'll show up somewhere eventually.

this is bullshit! they should just finish it in secret & then hand it over to the torrent community. i wish mist walker would get the rights to the chrono series.

I'm expecting this uploaded to somewhere now. I wouldn't be surprised if they just finished the project and uploaded it to some torrent site or shove it in a Rapidshare link and let the masses have at it. In fact, I want this to happen, but I'd rather not see them fined thousands should they be found out.

My family flipped out over this. MY DAMNED PARENTS PLAYED CHRONO TRIGGER. And don't even get me started on my brother. This is the kind of stuff that gets companies death threats. I commend the developers of Crimsom Echoes for reaching the point that they did, and while I wish no consequences upon them, I'm sure many of us here would like to see the project completed despite the C&D. That said, It's still the developers' call; we applaud you nonetheless.

Fuckin' Squeetarded. :(

The stupid thing about this is that this IS outside of their legal sphere of influence. This was a homebrew project that was being sold with no commercial benefit and with no risk to Square's properties. It was essentially the video game version of fan fiction.

One of Square's idiotic lawyers took US (or maybe Japanese) copyright law, interpreted it ridiculously loosely and then applied it to a jurisdiction that the law may not even cover. And even if it did - chances are this would fall firmly under "fair use". What we have here is a large corporate entity bullying a few individuals who don't have the means to fight back. With a competent lawyer who's well versed in copyright law and fair use these guys could most definitely send SE packing (and probably force them to pay for their legal fees too).

And that's it. All they did was send a cease and desist letter - a letter which could easily have been ignored. If SE wanted to sue them then they'd have to argue their position - which is a seriously weak one. See kids, this is how corporate bullies criminalize perfectly legal and harmless creativity. They scare people with C&D letters first because they know they'd have to be INCREDIBLY lucky to win most of these cases and they don't want to risk losing and then having their loss cited as a defense in further copyright cases.

Disgusting. These guys should grow some balls, throw the letter away and release the game anyway. Then if SE's lawyers come calling stand up for themselves in court.

damn square cant give its own fans a break. can't say i didn't see this coming.

What about the guy that hacked Chrono Trigger in order to propose to his girlfriend? You gonna sue him too, SE? He clearly profited from that hack. =P

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3170934

Srsly. Piss off, SE. These fan based games were doing you no harm, and you know it.
Way to screw over what little fan base you have left.

These kids are fucking idiots. You never, EVER post a release date. Not even a tentative one. The time to announce your release date is AFTER YOU HAVE RELEASED IT!

Pretty sure this is the same shit that happened with the 3D Chrono Trigger remake some idiots (no insult to their work, it looked fantastic, but they're still morons) were making until they announced some sort of upcoming demo or WIP release and got shut down the same way.

For any retards planning to do something like this in the future, do everyone a favor and just put the damn thing out and don't fuck around announcing a release date like you're fucking legit. PROTIP: They can NEVER shut down your project once it's public on the Internet.

The stupidity of it makes me sick.

@JT706

The world ends with you (worthwhile)

pirate it

It's strange how some companies just don't get that fan bases are important. Square has totally lost their way, I haven't bought anything made by them in years.

They were the reason I got a Playstation, now I'm growing more and more bitter towards them... This is just pushing me one step closer to hating them, and I think I'm only a couple steps away.

Take some lessons from Capcom, who are starting to realize fans are important, and are now catering to us. Until you can do that, I bid you adieu Squareenix, you shant be seeing my money till you fix your company.

and people shout at me when I say Square Enix sucks.

who cares? SE is protecting their IP's. Nothing wrong with that.

YES, it's a bummer the game was so close to complete, but to say that SE handled this badly is just insane and childish.

If the team working on this wants to get their work out, they should develop their own characters, locations, etc.. stuff that doesn't infringe on Square's rights, and obviously they'd probably need a new codebase to work off of..

I mean really.. if you're gonna rip off someone else's work, at least keep it on the DL until it's out in the wild.