Negli scorsi giorni vi abbiamo raccontato di come Prey for the Gods abbia dovuto cambiare nome in Praey for the Gods per un reclamo da parte di Bethesda, e i fan del gioco si sono scagliati subito contro la compagnia.
Pete Hines, il vice presidente della Software House, ha risposto a quest’ultimi che accusavano la casa di aver danneggiato un piccolo studio indipendente.
Hines, ovviamente, ha preso le difese di Bethesda e delle sue azioni, facendo notare di come già due anni fa il publisher avesse contattato No Matter Studios, ma senza ricevere risposta, alchè si è visto costretto a prendere provvedimenti in merito.
Inoltre lo stesso Hines ha affermato come spesso la casa americana abbia dovuto cambiare nome ad un progetto per venire incontro alle esigenze di altre aziende.
Qui di seguito potete vedere le varie conversazioni avvenute su Twitter.
And they could have used a name that didn't infringe on our mark like we have 1000 times when we came up w something another company 'marked
— Pete Hines (@DCDeacon) May 4, 2017
i enjoy legal stuff as much as i enjoy politics. the number of times we've had to change the name of a game/dlc we had come up w is insane.
— Pete Hines (@DCDeacon) May 4, 2017
i think you probably assume they are just now hearing from us and this is the only thing we've tried. none of that is true.
— Pete Hines (@DCDeacon) May 4, 2017
we first reached out to them about this two years ago. we've made plenty of effort
— Pete Hines (@DCDeacon) May 4, 2017
because they didn't listen to anything we said before now, including their own trademark lawyer(s) that filed for the trademark.
— Pete Hines (@DCDeacon) May 4, 2017
Cool has nothing to do with it. Its how trademark law works. You protect your mark or lose it. You don't really have a choice.
— Pete Hines (@DCDeacon) May 3, 2017
We really didn’t have much of a choice. If we don’t oppose the mark, we risk losing our Prey trademark. We don't really have a choice.
— Pete Hines (@DCDeacon) May 3, 2017
