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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => PS3 Discussion => Topic started by: Evi on April 26, 2004, 09:15:31 PM
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April 26, 2004 - You either love them or hate them. Regardless, you can\'t deny the reach of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen\'s vast media empire. The sibling duo even leaked into video games, with various cross-platform titles coming out through game company Acclaim.
The union, however, came to a screeching halt. Now, the tween team is suing the game publisher for doing a crappy job of developing and releasing their games.
According to the suit, Acclaim failed to fork over $177, 966.32 in game royalties over to Dualstar Entertainment, a company owned by the Olsens. The suit includes back royalties and a settlement fee of $300,000 left over from Dualstar\'s split from Acclaim last fall.
According to a letter from the Olsens\' band of lawyers, the split between camp Olsen and Acclaim stems from Acclaims tarnishing of the Olsens\' good name...as far as videogames are concerned, anyway.
The letter states that Acclaim "blatantly abandoned the mary-kateandashley brand and has taken the mary-kateandashley brand in video games which had flourished and has now run it into the ground."
Acclaim cancelled the cross-platform title Mary-Kate and Ashley in ACTION! back in 2003, which helped break up the marriage between the twins and Acclaim.
And what does $177,966.32 mean to the Olsen twins? Probably not that much. The twins are reported to be worth around $150 million each; with some reports estimating their net worth will reach into the billions by the time they\'re 21.
Like the b****es need any more money...
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Those girls are getting a little to greedy.
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Originally posted by EviscerationX
The letter states that Acclaim "blatantly abandoned the mary-kateandashley brand and has taken the mary-kateandashley brand in video games which had flourished and has now run it into the ground."
Ahaha, now that\'s funny. "Flourished" huh?
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Come on! They dont need any more money. They make millions of dollars. Whats a couple 100million gonna hurt.
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o come on! how can they complain that the games were crap - they were always going to be crap!, idiots
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I read an article yesterday on them. I think it was in GamePro magazine. It was pretty funny. About half way through the article they talk about how they are older now and are now not wanting to go by the Olsen Twins. They want to go by their first names.
Then through out the article they proceedd to call them the Olsen twins like 5 times.
If it were Maxim or Stuff I would think they meant to do that. Being a podunk gaming magazine, it was probably just crappy copy editing.
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They obviously aren\'t doing it for the $177k. They\'re suing for the money they could have been making off the royalties if the game were good or they really are pissed that Acclaim didn\'t put in effort into this game to make it fun. Either way they\'re delusional. Acclaim has decades more experience than the Olsen\'s company, Dualstar. They know what does & doesn\'t work. Mary kate and Ashley game will never work.
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I\'ve wanted to pick up a Mary Kate & Ashley game as a gag, but the games are way over-priced. Course, if the girls win, I\'ll just buy one of the games and then sue Acclaim for $300,000 after I play it.
-Dan
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:nopics:
Looks like I\'ll take care of this:
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bleh, they have ogre faces. Pervs only nut over em cause there\'s 2. 1 by herself would look, bleh..
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Originally posted by THX
bleh, they have ogre faces. Pervs only nut over em cause there\'s 2. 1 by herself would look, bleh..
You only think because all their movies suck and you\'re sick of them.
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*fwap fwap fwap fwap fwap*
They\'re beautiful.
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^^
Only when wearing makeup.
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Dude you have sex with men in showers, your opinion is INVALID.
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^^^^^
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Acclaim have always sucked anyway,so they haven\'t got a leg to stand on.
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Originally posted by SwifDi
Dude you have sex with men in showers, your opinion is INVALID.
So True.