The Mike Hardy Saga, Part III: Insanity
(note: read parts I and II if you haven’t already)
I am willing to give Michael J. Hardy the benefit of the doubt. However, the fact that he takes other people’s work and claims it as his own does not sit well with me. He also happens to claim that he is a part of a software company called Asylum Studios. Honestly, I have no idea which Asylum Studios he’s talking about, but I doubt it really matters anyways. It all seems the same after a while.
Let me go into the “products” Mr. Hardy has “created” under the Asylum Studios name that have to do with Doom. First, there’s Asylum v1.666, which is just a repackaged version of the prBoom engine and the original Doom. Next, we have Asylum 2, which is more of the same, except this time he repackages Final Doom. Finally, there is Asylum Gold (and the extra page he made to store files), which is, again, more of the same, except this time it is the popular Doom modification Requiem.
Note the “Buy Now” buttons on all of these pages (I suggest you not click them). According to Todd Hollenshead of id Software, Mr. Hardy has never received permission from id to sell copies of their games, which is not surprising. Mr. Hardy has published several other products under the Asylum Studios name, but I have little doubt these are frauds as well. I will go into these next time.
November 17th, 2005 at 6:46 AM
Haha, awesome. I love this guy. Keep ’em coming.
November 19th, 2005 at 6:12 PM
I see all those websites I found are giving everyone laughs. I love it. keep it up.
April 27th, 2006 at 11:02 AM
I have seen that sentence on all the links you gave to the mirror sites of that dude
“That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.”
-Michael J. Hardy (©October 31st, 2002)
So that quote is from H.P. Lovecraft, author of the Cthulhu mythos related Sci Fi books from the 1920’s, 1930’s.
And I doubt this guy owns copyright on the most popular sentence concerning that myth, or else we would find his name on any reprint of H.P. Lovecraft’s books.
so… one more sad lol
June 29th, 2010 at 12:32 PM
Where’s Karpo when you need him? :P
August 15th, 2014 at 1:32 PM
Asylum studio? Isn’t this the company which developed Airborne Hero and War Train Normandie 1944 (both are hideously bad and repulsive games)