If by chance you’ve ever run a blog about literally anything, you surely know about scrapers – those jerks who use scripts to steal your stuff in full and put it on their site to make easy money. The really clever ones use scripts to also change some of the words around so that it’s not as easy to get caught. Most of these scripts aren’t very good and just use word swaps, so they sound like somebody who barely speaks English grabbed a thesaurus and waved it around in the air.
Enter Owne Tech, a scraper site you’ve probably never heard of. Yesterday, when Camelot Unchained’s huge news hit the internet, this site apparently scraped VentureBeat’s piece on it and… well, the garbled version is actually hilarious.
“The previous writer of Mythic Leisure’s The Darkish Age of Camelot is again with a brand new recreation, and he has raised $7.five million for the net fable recreation dubbed Camelot Unchained,” the piece declares. “Jacobs was once the lead clothier and founder at Mythic. […] He left EA in 2009, and began the brand new corporate, Town State Leisure, in 2011. Via 2013, he had found out what he sought after to do. His Town State Leisure raised $four.five million in a Kickstarter crowdfunding marketing campaign, and his staff went to paintings on Camelot Unchained.”
“We aren’t seeking to be Global of Warcraft,” Mark Jacobs will be pleased to know he reportedly said. “We aren’t Ultimate Myth.” The piece also repeats the (incorrect) notion that the game is coming to beta this month (it’s not) and consoles next year (neither next year nor ever).
For their part, the devs of Town State Leisure – that is, City State Entertainment – are laughing it off and indeed embracing the joke. Jacobs tells me they’ve already registered townstateleisure.com (it currently redirects to the studio’s real site) and are planning on an all-new logo its honor.
Personally, I think Jacobs should also do t-shirts; he’s the lead clothier, after all.
Shields up and adblocks on if you want to go check it out and not give internet thieves any ad clicks: Here’s the whole absurd piece, at least until VentureBeat inevitably gets it DMCAed off the internet. VentureBeat’s original piece is worth a read, though we’re of course partial to our own MMORPG-player-centric interview with Jacobs, which you guys must love since you’re still clicking on it and making our servers work overtime!
Now if you’ll excuse me, I heard Global of Warcraft is back from maintenance and I’ve got some leisure to do.
With thanks to Jacobs for passing this along!
