02-19-2006, 01:10 AM
Yeah. Unless their art-direction is a flagrant rip-off (moreso than these screenshots let on), most any lawsuit would have little grounds. Unfortunately for game-designers, you can't copyright a game model. So Tetris gets copied the hell out of, mega-blocks can rip off of Lego, and Command and Conquer can steal the 1:3:4:7:12 pricing scheme for its units from Super Famicom Wars, and the developers just have to hope that their trademark will carry them through.
So blizzard is going to have to start kissing Korean players' asses and cross their fingers. It might not matter; the new game will either have enough shine and innovation to draw a large market segment away, or it might be too similar/weaker and fizzle.
Great truths are worth repeating:
"It is better to live in the corner of a roof
Than in a house shared with a contentious woman." -Proverbs 21:9
"It is better to live in the corner of a roof
Than in a house shared with a contentious woman." -Proverbs 25:24
"It is better to live in the corner of a roof
Than in a house shared with a contentious woman." -Proverbs 21:9
"It is better to live in the corner of a roof
Than in a house shared with a contentious woman." -Proverbs 25:24