Hello everyone,
upon reviewing the feedback to the “copyright” thingie and the WG May wallpaper (which STILL isn’t on EU server, apparently changing the names of days to English is very hard), I came to the conclusion that it is possible that the photo was different from the picture used on the wallpaper. Therefore I deleted the previous post. The castle is unmistakeably the same though, so – here is the wallpaper again:
And here is the castle picture (photo by S.Bailey via Wikimedia):
It’s the Corfe castle in Dorset, England. Interesting that they used exactly this castle, but why not. Oh and one last thing – do try to be… more polite, please. Comments such as “OMG SS U AN IDIOT” and such make me… irritated. Thank you.
Its a lovely place, as is Corfe itself
WG didn’t update the wallpaper section on the EU portal since April.
You do know April was 2 days ago?
Let me correct that. They didn’t add the Wallpaper for April and it seems they won’t do it soon for the May one.
And the NA Calendar is still from February. The actual events calendar is up to date but the wallpaper is February’s
OMG SS U AN SS :) :) :)
OMG SS U A SUCH WUNDRFUL HUMN BENG!
Nice to see WG’s art department still nicking stuff willy-nilly from around the web. Yes, I know that particular one is released under Creative Commons, but I don’t see any attribution to the original photographer.
Depends under which CC version it is released. Some of them don’t need any attribution at all.
Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
“Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. “
This time the shadows suggest they used another foto.
It’s clearly taken from a different photo. The shadow on the castle is in different angles. The wallpaper has 45° shadows, while the photo shown here was taken near sunset with almost horizontal shadows.
Stop bashing WG!!! because of them you have this Game you spend so much time to waste.
“proud employee of Hellenic bank”
Yea, I jumped the gun in where I thought it came from too..
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/23860150.jpg
That photo was taken at the same time of day, but the guy is too far right.
WG could easily trim and move things or change shading, so it is hard to know.
I doubt they went to Corfu Castle :P… but who knows!.
So, the Russians are invading England?
Yes, the Scottish referendum is just the beginning. Soon you will see local militia swarming the isles and referendums will be all over the place!
Viva La Scotland..
They should have left BEFORE their O&G reserves went through the floor, but eh….
Scots should watch out for Russian tourist… you know the story:
At the boarder Immigration officer is asking Russian tourist:
- Nationality?
- Russian.
- Occupation?
- No, no, just visiting!
Its the wallpaper for WoT in the Red Alert universe :D
(Good crossover: gives us a chance to play the Cronotank, Teslatank and the MAD tank. I’d love some other C&C tanks too, like a Mammoth or Overlord)
Apocalypse FTW :)
Here’s the link to the cleaner version that I have created, without any calendar or logo’s! http://i.imgur.com/ealdC57.jpg
I went there a few weeks ago, nice castle.
Visit Russia before Russia visits you! :D
Who cares? For all we know WG bought the rights to use that image for their wallpapers… moving on to more important things in life, oh wait i don’t have a life according to red barons.
Corfe castle isn’t very far from Bovington tank museum …….
OMG some WG designer could have taken a photo of the castle and actually used it in the poster legitimately. What is the world coming to?
And they could have taken it from here
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.636507,-2.059593,3a,16.7y,3.23h,93.01t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sRPSjKzIQPuyanxxxfMEbLA!2e0
as they left the car park that is just behind the location on the map
It’s very close to Bovington yes. Right next to the Lulworth Army Ranges where the army practices tanks and artillery and stuff :). Lovely part of the world and you can catch a steam train from there down to Swanage. The seaside town that time forgot.
We are all badasses in WoT but we go to National Trust properties as well LOL>
“OMG SS U AN IDIOT”
Sorry, I just had to. Can’t control the urge to type this after you mentioned it…
A professional concept artist/illustrator would use a library of own pictures taken to avoid exactly those copyright issues. So it might be that the artist has gotten around to take own pictures of the Corfe castle.