They could have just said "Change your name please", like Valve did with Black Mesa Source -> Black Mesa.
No need to go in all guns blazing with a legal note.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;27560546]They could have just said "Change your name please", like Valve did with Black Mesa Source -> Black Mesa.
No need to go in all guns blazing with a legal note.[/QUOTE]
they're a company and they have the copyright for it. Not only that it's their game. They had every right to do what they did, and afterwards they did basically contact them and tell them to change the name.
I appreciate that, but you can always ask first, then go to legal matters.
It is serious business, but serious business does not always have to start with overwhelming shock-and-awe involving closing media because of the name.
Just send a formal email saying "We own the name, please don't use it. We request a conference at <date to be arranged> to discuss this."
Look at Valve - they are also a company, and they ask. They usually get what they ask for from their community, without having to send DMCA notices.
It's well within their rights, but you don't have to be brutal in affirming them, just be assertive, and slightly overwhelming, not an unstoppable legal juggernaught. It often works just as well, and doesn't alienate the community as much.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roIOpHq0vUc[/media]
Dis look cool.
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Hope it doesn't get abandoned.
Hardly a surprise.
I once heard that the only thing that will kill World of Warcraft is Blizzard.
World of Starcraft, a MMO made from an RTS. 70$ for the DVD with one month, 45$ per 3 months game time. Recruit a friend bonuses bonus only applies if the friend buys 6 months all at once. You can get a Panda mount that can fly, but it is 15$. And when you go to Blizzcon, you get a free pet for WoS. It's a plain murloc.
Activision will also help develop the game. Once you reach max level and are able to equip all items, you can choose to reset everything and start again. The story is engaging, and true to the CoD franchise, your main character will die 4 times before he's max level. PVP in battlegrounds will be similar in that there will be kill streaks. 5 kills gets you a Viking strike, 10 kills gets you a Thor Gunner, and 15 gets you Attack Zergs.
New expansions will come out, but they will be nearly pointless as they will only add new battlegrounds in which to fight in.
World of Starcraft: Nuclear Fallout will be released a year after the first. You won't get to keep your characters levels, and you will start from scratch. All new battlegrounds, but a fairly similar story. This time your character will experience 5 horrific deaths. New expansions include more Battlegrounds, but half of them are from the original WoS.
[QUOTE=Mipit;27560768]I once heard that the only thing that will kill World of Warcraft is Blizzard.
World of Starcraft, a MMO made from an RTS. 70$ for the DVD with one month, 45$ per 3 months game time. Recruit a friend bonuses bonus only applies if the friend buys 6 months all at once. You can get a Panda mount that can fly, but it is 15$. And when you go to Blizzcon, you get a free pet for WoS. It's a plain murloc.
Activision will also help develop the game. Once you reach max level and are able to equip all items, you can choose to reset everything and start again. The story is engaging, and true to the CoD franchise, your main character will die 4 times before he's max level. PVP in battlegrounds will be similar in that there will be kill streaks. 5 kills gets you a Viking strike, 10 kills gets you a Thor Gunner, and 15 gets you Attack Zergs.
New expansions will come out, but they will be nearly pointless as they will only add new battlegrounds in which to fight in.
World of Starcraft: Nuclear Fallout will be released a year after the first. You won't get to keep your characters levels, and you will start from scratch. All new battlegrounds, but a fairly similar story. This time your character will experience 5 horrific deaths. New expansions include more Battlegrounds, but half of them are from the original WoS.[/QUOTE]
Stop talking garbage, Activision is not a developer they're now publishing Blizzard games and that's it, only developers within Blizzard make their games. When the fuck will people start learning that Activision and Blizzard is 2 separate things fuck sake.
[QUOTE=Samoht;27560675][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roIOpHq0vUc[/media]
Dis look cool.
[editline]21st January 2011[/editline]
Hope it doesn't get abandoned.[/QUOTE]
So much fucking bloom.
Never heard of this map/mod/however they call this. Sounds interesting.
All my hate has turned into pure Love.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;27560546]They could have just said "Change your name please", like Valve did with Black Mesa Source -> Black Mesa.
No need to go in all guns blazing with a legal note.[/QUOTE]
If you read the article, it wasn't just about the name.
Their legal department thought they were using Starcraft assets to make a completely different game separate from SC2. While this was a big blunder on Blizzards legal team it does seem that this got resolved when they figured out that it was useing the SC2 toolset. And of course the name did have a role in this too.
RPS is just trying to throw fuel into the candle fire.
Deleting the videos was just a safety routine, call it harsh or stupid or whatever you want, but they're a company and they hold the copyrights for the name as well. Then since they are a company and all they have to hold meetings and discuss the matter internally clearing things up and getting shit on the table, find out what they will do if that and that and what they would do if this and this, then they can contact the person when they got most problems solved internally and just need the final key information, from the guy they're attacking.
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