Lol @ civilization 5 art assets

I found this on the boards of civfanatics it pretty much shocked me how they created a ton of there assets. Do you think it's lame or just very clever and creative in another way?

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422219

Wow, people seriously claim a vintage microphone pic is the source of the Radio icon. What's more likely, that Firaxis flipped the original, added wires and a new stand or that they looked at one of the billion similar microphones as inspiration?

Most of the icons are incredibly generic. That entire forum assumes Firaxis stole everything. Including the shape of a cut diamond. How do they know they weren't licensed? You can buy stuff like that for peanuts.

It reminds me of people claiming that Stalker stole Doom 3 and HL2 textures, when in fact all three developers licensed them from the same company.

Wow, people seriously claim a vintage microphone pic is the source of the Radio icon. What's more likely, that Firaxis flipped the original, added wires and a new stand or that they looked at one of the billion similar microphones as inspiration?

Most of the icons are incredibly generic. That entire forum assumes Firaxis stole everything. Including the shape of a cut diamond. How do they know they weren't licensed? You can buy stuff like that for peanuts.

It reminds me of people claiming that Stalker stole Doom 3 and HL2 textures, when in fact all three developers licensed them from the same company.

Baranga

If you read past the first page you'll see alot are obvious copies.

Wow, people seriously claim a vintage microphone pic is the source of the Radio icon. What's more likely, that Firaxis flipped the original, added wires and a new stand or that they looked at one of the billion similar microphones as inspiration?

Most of the icons are incredibly generic. That entire forum assumes Firaxis stole everything. Including the shape of a cut diamond. How do they know they weren't licensed? You can buy stuff like that for peanuts.

It reminds me of people claiming that Stalker stole Doom 3 and HL2 textures, when in fact all three developers licensed them from the same company.

Baranga