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Topic: The Star Control: Origins thread (Read 10733 times)
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Shiver
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If Stardock loses the Star Control trademark, what will we call the game afterward?
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Death 999
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If they were to somehow lose that trademark?
Stardock: Origins? I mean, they've definitely got the rights to THAT.
And maybe 'Screw Atari for selling us a nothingburger for a lot of money, and P&F for not warning us: Origins'
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rosepatel
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Seriously... why not just call it Galactic Origins?
I'm sure Stardock knows the exact figures, but each edition of GalCiv sells around 300k (before expansion packs). Each edition of Star Control only sold 100k or so, and that was nearly 3 decades ago.
At this point, the only fans who really care about Star Control are ones who care about the original games, and it's gonna be hard to sell them on a new game if you're in a battle with the creators.
I'm sure they want to get the value of the Trademark. But rationally, it's a sunk cost. They could easily shift gears and promote under a new name for most of the benefit, if not more of a benefit.
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Kaiser
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At this current point in time, it's more likely that FaP will have to give up the IP to cover damages than Stardock would have to give up the Trademark.
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Death 999
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I have a hard time seeing either of those happening.
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Krulle
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Me neither.
Both rights are uncontested and acknowledged by the other side.
Thing is, trademarks have well-defined borders.
Copyrights do not have a well-defined border, especially in modern times when most creations are a group effort.
Therefore one is comparably easy to enforce, the other not.
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Shiver
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You know you're reading something from a Stardock cultist when they call the creators of Star Control "FaP". D999, would you be willing to start editing that heinous crap out? I know it's heavy-handed but when I open the "Team" page of the Ur-Quan Masters website it says,
We worship these two higher beings for making the original, legendary game:
Fred Ford
Paul Reiche III
I don't think it's too much to ask that forum-goers not slur their names around here.
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Frogboy
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Uh, first, welcome to the forum, Shiver.
Second, Death 999 is the global moderator of this forum. Perhaps before insulting him you might want to learn more about the community here.
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Kaiser
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FaP is easier to type on a phone without digging up the ampersand.
In English, it's traditional when you list things to go from syllable order (which isn't involved in the mono-syllabled Fred and Paul) and then alphabetical. Like Dogar and Kazon, it should be Fred and Paul.
You have an issue with the English language, that's on you. I'll continue to write FaP or F&P depending on what I'm typing on.
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Death 999
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… sigh.
Yeah, FaP is amusing, and maybe PaF would be less snicker-snicker-y, BUT unless people began playing off it as direct taunts, I think going after it - especially aggressively like that - is making something out of nothing. Of course, the instant someone begins actually making that taunt, red flags gonna be flying. That'd be not-okay.
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