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um.. they didn't.

You're not a graphic designer, so I can understand you wouldn't get it, but in order to print an image like that for a game cover, you need it to be a lot higher resolution than anything you could find on the web.

What is most likely the case, is that the guys who ported the game appreciated the support from IGN, so they put the watermark in there as sort of an easter egg in "thanks".

But no... if they got ANY image from IGN's site, it would have been too poor to print. All images on the web are 72 dpi, you need around 300 for a decent print.

The image isn't just some screenshot..,it's a high-res artwork that is quality enough for printing in the small (approx.) 3x5 area that it is used on the box art.

Not to mention the fact that the logo is in the exact, pixel-for-pixel location in both the image on IGN and the boxart. If they were just throwing an easter egg in for IGN as you claim, why did they decide to put IGN's logo in the very exact spot?

Yeah, that's not an 'easter egg' by any means. It's just a screw up.

It's also quite easy to get a web resolution image up to a usable 300dpi if you know what you're doing and have the right software. You could easily blow one of those IGN screen shots up to a good 7x7 before any major image degradation occurs.

samfish.. you don't just "accidently" put IGN's logo in your cover box art... and you sure as heck don't copy your image from a website for your box art. this is capcom we're talking about, not D3 or some other idiodic company... they wouldn't need the file from IGN, it was obviously put in on purpose.

And yea, I'm sure you could make the file look decent, but again.. if a Capcom has even the most mildly reputable graphic design artists, which im sure they do.. theyre freakin capcom, im sure they wouldnt copy a dang image from a website for a game cover. common people. If I did this, or anyone in my team did this, there would be hell to pay where I work. This isn't something professional graphic designers would do... more like some high school student who thinks MS Paint and MS Word is the perfect way to compile and manipulate photos.

Again, this was on purpose. Period. I'm sure you'll hear more from IGN in a bit when they laugh about how they asked it to be put in there to make idiots like us on message boards go ape crazy.

This was not intentionally placed, not at all. You're acting like the image was made by some random person at IGN with Microsoft Paint. It wasn't, it's Capcom's own high-res imagery so there is no reason why IGN isn't an acceptable place to copy their own image from. It's obvious though, that in doing so, they forgot to edit out IGN's logo.

Capcom isn't just going to place IGN's logo on their boxart, especially not just for laughs as you firmly believe. Graphical oversights like this happen all the time. Just last week Circuit City and Radio Shack ran ads featuring an iPod Touch that was jailbroken and featured icons for unauthorized programs. It was quite obvious that they simply took the image from some website other than Apples. These are mistakes, not intentional acts and you're very naive to think that IGN's logo was intentionally placed there.

Plus you fail to provide a reason why, under your belief that it was placed there at the request of IGN, that Capcom decided to place their logo in the very *exact same* place that the logo of IGN appears in the image of IGN's website. It's also the same size...

If it had been placed there separately, the size and location of the logo wouldn't match up exactly.

Who did you think "our cruel overlords" were?

:P Didn't know Amaterasu was female?
Yeah, I suppose if you put it that way -- she does kinda'.

Well, I suppose if you think about it... "Amaterasu" doesn't sound like a guy's name.
And if you knew some Japanese mythological history... you would've already known that she was a goddess. But that's not like an information they throw in fliers ... :D

Oh well, female white wolves look nice -- but when ZeldaTP got out, there was sooo many WolfLink+Amaterasu pictures spreading around, it was kinda' disturbing. :P

Maybe they were so used to the watermark they totally didn't notice it. :P

My guess, from following the game, is that they took it from there because sadly they no longer have it. Clover and Capcom split on unhappy terms so when Ready at Dawn wanted to do the port, they couldn't get a bunch of the assets. They had to deconstruct and reconstruct the code of the PS2 game, so it wasn't an easy port. (My source was one of the IGN Wiik in Review podcasts, I don't remember which one they went into this for) Given that information, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if RaD actually ended up combing the internet for the original artwork unfortunately. It's likely Capcom's blame for tearing apart Clover.

That makes a lot of sense, actually. I forgot about that whole thing.

That would explain a lot of things, like their inability to replicate that art filter

Although you figure Capcom would've been smart enough to cease all the development assets for games that Clover had done under their name. I mean Nintendo didn't have this trouble porting all the Donkey Kong Country games to GBA, even after Rare split

While that's probably it, I just find it hard to believe a company like Capcom would ever do such a thing. Our company has EVERYthing either on the server (for the last year) or backed up on back up servers/dvds for previous years' work. To misplace it like that, and to not get even the most basic files like that from Clover just .. idk.. doesn't sound right.

And they couldn't replicate the paper filter NOT because they didn't have the file, it's because the PS2's rendering system is different than the Wii's, and they couldn't mimic all the effects 1:1.

Ritz: That's what I'm trying to say there Ritz. Anybody with any sense, would know that if they had to take the file from IGN (which I honestly doubt highly) that most of their images have watermarks on them. And yes, cloning it out would take about 20 seconds... especially since there is no real illustration behind it.. just a gradient really...

@Orion:
You'd be surprised how much time is spent at NASA doing duplicate research because the original crap is gone when people retire.

I don't work for NASA, but if all of the original source material is copyrighted to Clover and Capcom was just the publisher, Capcom wouldn't have any of the original materials for it. Plus, the fact that the watermark is in the *exact same spot* as the file on the IGN means there is absolutely no coincidence. You're trying to explain the obvious with obfuscation.

Capcom didn't have access since the copyright went with Clover and turned to the internets for help. Case open and frakking closed.

I already bought the ps2 version a long time ago, but your theory might have just sold me the Wii version.

The sole problem with that mentality is that if everyone stockpiles them, how will they become rare?

That idea nearly bankrupted the comic book industry back in the 90's

Most people won't stockpile the watermark'd version. It's not like the majority of Wii users read Nintendo Wii Fanboy.

Definitely a second on that one. Who the hell cares? Had I bought the game last weekend (I was very close), if I noticed it at all, I wouldn't have thought twice about it.