Marvel Sues over City of Heroes [Nov 12, 2004, 10:40 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Marvel sues two companies over role-playing game is an article announcing
the Comic Book Publisher is suing NCsoft and Cryptic Studios over City of
Heroes. No word on whether Matt Murdock is handling Marvel's case:
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.
The personal computer game enables players to design superheroes' look and abilities and then battle against other players' characters in a virtual city. Like similar so-called massively multiplayer role-playing games where thousands of players can be playing simultaneously at any given time, City of Heroes claims to offer a myriad of combinations so that no two players' characters are exactly the same.
But in its lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court, Marvel argues that the game's character creation engine easily allows players to design characters that are virtual copies of its own superheros, including "The Incredible Hulk."
Ok, where are all these Wolverine clones in the comicbook world you speak of?
Predator, say.
Conversely why do you have such a burr up your ass about Marvel trying to protect its IP? Marvel isn't saying they want to shut CoH down, they just want to stop the obvious clones or see them license them. Sounds fair to me.
No, it sounds to me like they're just dicks who want to wipe out competition with lawsuits instead of quality products. CoH isn't trying to profit off of clones, it's just something that the costume editor lets you do. Worded the way they did, I don't see how it's any different from suing id or Discreet for Quake and 3DSMax.
The New York-based company also took issue with the ability of players to go so far as to name their superhero creations after Marvel comic book characters.
I mean, piss off. Seriously. Because if they're seriously suggesting that the game should be able to see that your model looks like Cyclops and has a similar name, and then ban it, then they should get syphilis and die.
Predator, say.
Conversely why do you have such a burr up your ass about Marvel trying to protect its IP? Marvel isn't saying they want to shut CoH down, they just want to stop the obvious clones or see them license them. Sounds fair to me.
No, it sounds to me like they're just dicks who want to wipe out competition with lawsuits instead of quality products. CoH isn't trying to profit off of clones, it's just something that the costume editor lets you do. Worded the way they did, I don't see how it's any different from suing id or Discreet for Quake and 3DSMax.
The New York-based company also took issue with the ability of players to go so far as to name their superhero creations after Marvel comic book characters.
I mean, piss off. Seriously. Because if they're seriously suggesting that the game should be able to see that your model looks like Cyclops and has a similar name, and then ban it, then they should get syphilis and die.
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