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The end for CoH?
Athon
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http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?flok=FF-APO-1333&idq=/ff/story/0001/20041111/2235482241.htm&sc=1333
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-11-11-marvel-sues-over-avatars_x.htm
In brief:
Marvel is suing NCSoft and Cryptic Studios, the creators of City of Heroes. The lawsuit claims South Korea-based NCSoft and San Jose-based Cryptic Studios violated Marvel's trademark characters in their game City of Heroes. Marvel seeks unspecified damages and an injunction against the two companies to stop using its characters.
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They should sue the player who made the characters and not the company.
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LOL they should sue the player? Or the STAFF member that modelled the characters?
Either way, the company is the one which should be punished. Down with CoH I say.
Originally posted by Kiamde
They should sue the player who made the characters and not the company.
Yeah but NCSoft said they own all the charaters that anyone makes so that they can stop people selling accounts
I can't really see this lawsuit going anywhere. There have been games in the past with create a player that you could model your player after tons of different copywrited characters and nothing ever developed with those.
CoH has a good fan base and is a really fun game. With City of Villians expected to be out in the next few months i am sure they will reach some kind of agreement outside of the courtroom.
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Why not?
Good question. Perhaps I'm used to thinking of that genre as a niche market. But there are many similar (and successful) fantasy games. Perhaps there could be a couple superhero games. But it would certainly benefit Marvel's game to have COH off the market. It would help Marvel even if COH is just ordered to revise the character generator to limit what players avatars could look like. I always thought the character generator was the best part of COH.
I don't think genre plays as much a role as gameplay. if the gameplay is good it will be successful. If the gameplay sucks.. well need I say it?
if the gameplay is good it will be successful. If the gameplay sucks.. well need I say it?
Fantasy titles tend to get my immediate interest, but I agree with you there. I'd rather play a game with good content than the norm... anything but the norm...
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If the courts consider the unauthorized killing of an unborn child murder, then what do they consider abortion?
"Put your foot where your mouth is." - Wisdom from my grandfather
"Paper or plastic? ... because I'm afraid I'll have to suffocate you unless you put this bag on your head..." - Ethnitrek
AC1: Wierding from Harvestgain