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CoH v.s. Marvel lawsuit

Just wondering what peoples opinions are on this? I can understand why Marvel would be upset. Nobody likes having their characters in non-liscensed games. But there have been numerous games featuring character customization, that I have been able to make Marvel characters. It's not hard to bulk up a human character and turn his skin green for example. JMHO.

Opinions? Thoughts?

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  • wolftamerwolftamer Member Posts: 29

    ya i hear ya, i say marvel is gonna use it to budget some things, since they probably couldnt budget them at the same time, but with City of Heros, anyone could make a comic superhero that looked like one of their characters in CoH, copyright it then sue CoH just so they could get some money (may take some time but still)

    so from what i see, marvel has to be wanting money for something, and if CoH is lucky and marvel is makin an MMORPG, maybe they'll screw something up and CoH could sue them back for big bucksimage i dont care for marvel too much, the superhero stuff is cool, but i still dont likem much cause i never really liked their games much, and their card game just sucksimage

  • JodokaiJodokai Member Posts: 1,621

    Most people should know by now that CoH is NOT my favorite game, but Marvel is just being stupid. CoH does go after people that use known heroes. I mean is WotC going after all the dual wielding dark elves in EQ2? What about all the Hammer weilding Barbarians? Please. Marvel is a company that has no class what so ever.

  • blazerothblazeroth Member Posts: 62

    The whole thing is ridiculous. The fact that CoH polices people is fine and dandy, but it still is ridiculous. Then again, the Girl Scouts couldn't even SING the macaroni song because of copyright laws. And restaurants have to pay to sing Happy Birthday to people.

    The whole country is going to the dogs. Everyone wants a slice of every pie. Greed is going to kill us.

    So WHAT if someone makes a character called Wolverine. So Marvel can license every cool in the book, leaving us with neat characters like "The Uarzzz##@33333".

    It is just stupid. I saw a Wolverine clone the other day on CoH. So a guy plays as Wolverine in an online game. Oh my God, the sky is falling.

    Because of this, I may NEVER watch another Marvel movie in protest. Marvel - you are being utterly and totally ridiculous.

    What is the point? Is someone making money off of this? No. How does Marvel lose anything? Even if someone is playing with a wolverine costume, it is only the time that he is online that it appears. And again, who is that hurting, exactly? Marvel? If I knew nothing about the x-men, and saw Wolverine online, I would think hey, that is cool, and probably want to see the movie or buy the comic book. But Marvel doesn't see that, the greedy, rotten bastards. They just say, hey, they can make our guy. That is our guy. Give us money.

    I am calling for a nationwide boycott of all Marvel products. Starting today. Lets run them out of town and send a message.

    Currently playing:
    City of Heroes
    WoW Beta

    Currently playing:
    World of Warcraft

  • aaronmanzeroaaronmanzero Member Posts: 75
    this is total BS from Marvel I can create their characters on most of the Games i have especially wrestling I mean come on i dont wanna nother game where i have to look identical to someone else go NCsoft on Creativity. If my QB on my Madden football online game is named wolverine will they sue Madden?

  • aaronmanzeroaaronmanzero Member Posts: 75

    i must have also counted 1000 LOTR names in various fantasy games, as well as marvel names, and DC names and MAtrix blah blah blah.

    HEY DC isnt crying about people trying to look like batman and just cause your big and green does make u the hulk. And i think i have seen 300 versions of green  lantern to oh well.

    Freedom of spech and play your going to far greedy copyright bootheads

     

  • wendyXwendyX Member Posts: 32

    I'm taking Marvels side, I've been a comic and MMO fan for as long as ive known. But from not even playing this game i can tell that Marvel is going to win. I doupt that this will change customization for other games because other games dont have to worry about copyright stuff but i know it is way to easy to break copy right stuff on COH.

    But fredom to create is also a good point...........

  • Rikimaru_XRikimaru_X Member UncommonPosts: 11,718
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  • aaronmanzeroaaronmanzero Member Posts: 75

    your point being?

  • dtritusdtritus Member Posts: 139

    I expect CoH will end up paying Marvel license fees, or perhaps they'll work out some kind of massive advertising deal.  It'll be cheaper than remaking the game.

    I don't think it's right or fair, but that's how it'll go down.

    Yeah, I'd do Betty....
    But I'd be thinking about Wilma.

  • tinman37tinman37 Member Posts: 3
    I guess that mean that Marvel will now be seek legal damages from Crayola.  Look at all the sketches that we make that resemble thier super heros.  After that, they will be hitting all the pencil makers, and don't forget graphic design software. 
  • MentatMentat Member UncommonPosts: 516

    My hope is that CoH can come to an agreement with Marvel or just setup rules and conditions that make it harder to make "trademark chars". What would be better is if CoH tells Marvel to stuff it and fights them tooth and nail in court. If Marvel was so worried about this, they shoulda expressed a concern prior to release.

     

    Looks like a moot point cause the servers are all perty dern empty right about now thanks to WoW.

    Which by the way... wait 2 weeks before you buy it or you'll be in the same boat I'm in... Bored...waiting for servers to be fixed...posting on MMORPG.com hehe.

     

    Mentat

  • raiyferaiyfe Member Posts: 14

    Marvel is being ridiculous. They should be happy that their characters are so popular to warrant people imitating them.

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