Thread: Having fun.

What pisses me off the most us how stupid game developers are getting. "OH. MY. GOSH. SOMEONE IS BASING A GAME OFF OF OURS?! WTF LAWSUIT."
Almost everything in the world works like that. People intentionally copy each other, or do so subconsciously. I read something once about how the brain complies all experiences/thoughts and we use all of that to make our decisions, without even realizing it. Now I don't know if that's true or not, but it would make sense.
I think calling the game "scrolls" and if it has more in common then just the mountains, yeah, it's worth looking into, but maybe not a lawsuit.

They're obviously doing it for attention... It's so childish to sue I think. Just my opinion.

Originally Posted by Eddaxar

They're obviously doing it for attention... It's so childish to sue I think. Just my opinion.

Yeah, it really is.
Then again, Some of it makes sense. My one friend is having a company screw her over. They wont give her the disability funds she should get. That is not childish to sue, as they have tried to sort it out.
But over a game?
Over a GAME?
because "they have mountains, yea we invented those.."
I used to threaten to sue people constantly lol, and I still hear 10yr olds telling people that.

Originally Posted by Zoey W

A lot of people don't get what's actually happening here, mojang is trying to get a trademark on the word "scrolls", meaning that if Bethesda were to name any more of their games "the elder scrolls", mojang would have the right to sue them, as, until now, mojang has been the only source of info, o course he's going to make Bethesda look like the bad guy

If a judge is stupid enough to let someone copyright the word "scrolls" I'm going to become a lawyer just to fight it in court.

Originally Posted by Almostinsane

If a judge is stupid enough to let someone copyright the word "scrolls" I'm going to become a lawyer just to fight it in court.

They can't copyright the word scrolls because it is a "common" english language word. In the same way that Apple can't copyright the word apple itself.

What they can do is challenge it's use based on context. If I were to start building computers and call them say Big Apple Computers and start selling them with an apple for my logo (even though it didn't look like THE Apple logo) then I'm sure I would not only get sued but I would lose the suit in record time.

The same goes for software. Bethesda has The Elder Scrolls as a software franchise. Mojang has created a game they call Scrolls. So while they can't sue that they own the word scrolls, what they will be going to court over is the idea that someone could get mixed up that there is another game with Scrolls in the title causing loss of sales based on brand confusion (also noting that Scrolls was to come out the same day as Skyrim). The trouble is, since the titles are not the same, the genre of the game is not the same, the logos aren't even remotely similar... Can they even begin to hope for a favorable outcome on their part? No. BUT... This lawsuit is generating publicity. So could they get the same amount of publicity throwing money into marketing as they can by suing Mojang on a dollar per return basis? Probably not.

I think they know they won't win this. But there's no such thing as bad publicity. If the Skyrim sales go up even a fraction of a percent on release because of the lawsuit because people are curious about it... The lawsuit paid for itself.