Minecraft creator to fight over Scrolls game title "for as long as it takes"
As we mentioned before, Quake III was developed by id Software which is now owned by Bethesda Softworks. Persson states, "If it came to a Quake III tournament, I have a feeling we just might have to change the name. in retrospect, Quake III might have been a poor choice." However that doesn't mean that Persson is going to give up on his fight to use the name Scrolls for Mojang's next game. He states, "If we’re going to court, I will fight this for as long as it takes. It’s a bogus claim, and [Bethesda has] several one-word-named games that share a noun with other games that precede [its] games." An example of that is Rage, the next game from id Software that's due out on October 4. Rage is part of the title for the classic Streets of Rage arcade brawler game from Sega.
While Persson certainly has a point, so does Bethesda, according to attorney Mark Methenitis. He says, "The basic question here is whether the two trademarks are likely to be confused. There’s a pretty well-established test for this under U.S. trademark law, and based on those factors, Bethesda has a reasonable argument." The gist of Bethesda's possible argument is that while hardcore gamers would know the difference between the two games, casual folks might confuse the two games since both have "scrolls" in the title and both have a fantasy theme.
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3OH3Posted:
ZerkosWell over 3216204 people have bought the game so far. And at $15 a piece that makes 48,243,060.... Just off of one game.3OH3 Bethesda shouldn't really sue them over this but notch hasent really handled it very....... Professionally.Well he is not a pro anyway he is a indie game maker not a muti billion pound company.
48,243,060.00EUR = $69,341,582.37 USD which is quite a bit of money.
And in the past 24 hours 9639 have bought the game for $15 which is 144,585... So even though he's not a multi billionaire, I think he's pretty okay money wise.
ZerkosPosted:
3OH3 Bethesda shouldn't really sue them over this but notch hasent really handled it very....... Professionally.Well he is not a pro anyway he is a indie game maker not a muti billion pound company.
3OH3Posted:
Bethesda shouldn't really sue them over this but notch hasent really handled it very....... Professionally.
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