Bethesda v Notch/Mojang

Gimpymoo · 7 Aug 2011 at 09:52

Bwaaa said:
He should have called it iScrolls and got double points.

ROFL

Seriously, someone at Bethesda is going to have a nightmare on Monday morning when they realise some overpaid lawyers have declared war on the holiest of independent developers.

This is just making them look fat and greedy... not good publicity and not the "bad" publicity which is good publicity either.

Jono8 · 7 Aug 2011 at 14:33

How stupid

anuraj · 19 Oct 2011 at 18:17

Mojang won.

Tune · 19 Oct 2011 at 18:51

anuraj said:
Mojang won.

old news bro

gropingmantis · 19 Oct 2011 at 18:53

anuraj said:
Mojang won.

No they didn't.

anuraj · 19 Oct 2011 at 19:08

gropingmantis said:
No they didn't.

Yep they did:

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shaggyd · 19 Oct 2011 at 19:30

To pee Bethesda off, Notch should make his next game: The toMORROW WIND - FALLOUT of OBLIVION & the Scrolls of the NEW VEGAnS.

CaptainRAVE · 19 Oct 2011 at 19:31

lol, Bethesda need to chill out with the lawsuits.

gropingmantis · 19 Oct 2011 at 19:45

anuraj said:
Yep they did:

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Fragg · 19 Oct 2011 at 20:38

i dont know any one who plays oblivion etc. call it the edlerscrolls oblivion - it is just oblivion.

Aparently 'bethesda developers' said they were forced into creating the court case by 'bethesda publishers'

im glad mojang one it. it would have been the start of whole lot more of worse cases if they had of lost

gropingmantis · 19 Oct 2011 at 21:01

Fragg said:
i dont know any one who plays oblivion etc. call it the edlerscrolls oblivion - it is just oblivion.

Aparently 'bethesda developers' said they were forced into creating the court case by 'bethesda publishers'

im glad mojang one it. it would have been the start of whole lot more of worse cases if they had of lost

But they haven't won yet. See my post above. The hardest part is still to come.

Fragg · 19 Oct 2011 at 21:14

gropingmantis said:
But they haven't won yet. See my post above. The hardest part is still to come.

haha, sorry, i never read that far

serious? dang, i wish them the best of luck

Tefal · 19 Oct 2011 at 21:56

gropingmantis said:
This means nothing. Its a triviality.

Tell that to Samsung.

gropingmantis · 19 Oct 2011 at 22:18

Tefal said:
Tell that to Samsung.

Well true if you lose at that stage and you are selling as Samsung are then that is bad but as Mojang are still working on their game it would not affect them in the same way as it has affected Samsung. If Scrolls was available to buy now or they were about to ship then it would be bad....but they aren't so it is trivial.

Scougar · 19 Oct 2011 at 22:28

The trouble with Bethesda doing this is that a lawsuit in itself is enough to bury the smaller company with costs. That's the way ***** business works :-(

Nerusy · 19 Oct 2011 at 22:39

damn good publicity for mojang though isn't it, until that lawsuit I had no idea he's got another game in the works.

gropingmantis · 19 Oct 2011 at 22:43

Scougar said:
The trouble with Bethesda doing this is that a lawsuit in itself is enough to bury the smaller company with costs. That's the way ***** business works

Lol Mojang aren't small thats the point. Zenimax probably thought they could pick on the tiny "indie" developer but Mojang have a whole ****tonne of money now. More than enough to throw into a nice big court case that will destroy Bethesda's reputation amongst at least PC gamers.