marvel exec#1: Lets try to piss off and drive away people from the CoH francise. marvel exec#2: Good idea, how do we do that? marvel exec#1: We fustrate the CoH players with little imagination. We need to drive them insane by forcing them to skirt the line of pretending to be thier favorite heros and being a close rip off.…
I think they'll employ some kind of regulations within the game ruleset that says players aren't allowed to directly mimic copyrighted characters. They've been doing that since the game's inception. Marvel started suing because there's a Marvel MMO in development and CoH is direct competition.
Toomas how's your reading comprehension? Marvel tried to sue the pants off NC Soft because players were creating superheroes very similar to their trademark characters. so Marvel settling with them for no money and without changing City of Heroes/Villains would mean that they "lost".
[ QUOTE ] Toomas how's your reading comprehension? Marvel tried to sue the pants off NC Soft because players were creating superheroes very similar to their trademark characters. so Marvel settling with them for no money and without changing City of Heroes/Villains would mean that they "lost". [/ QUOTE ] Yeah but they dont…
I think it goes beyond that simple fact KDR. Marvel has always been incredibly anal about their IPs and pretty much launched campaigns against any kind of IP abuse in any game, which is their right, even tho it still makes them hate-able. City of Heroes was bound to be a very problematic game (IP wise) just because of it's…
Yeah, basically they just said "Ok ok, we're not really arguing about anything. How about we both just shut up and call it a day." I think they'll employ some kind of regulations within the game ruleset that says players aren't allowed to directly mimic copyrighted characters. That would make the most sense. The two…