Game title - "Planetside: X" ? - Page 2

morf · 2011-03-09, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by Sobekeus

Read what I quoted, then what you quoted, and then what I quoted. Does the lightbulb work?

I'll lightbulb your face with my fist, u ass.

Jahaha.

The Desert Fox · 2011-03-09, 05:17 PM

Originally Posted by Sobekeus

Read what I quoted, then what you quoted, and then what I quoted. Does the lightbulb work?

No no no no no, I want you to read what you quoted, then what he quoted, then what you quoted again, then what I quoted.

Rbstr · 2011-03-09, 05:21 PM

,If "Planetside" isn't in the title they lose out on a bunch of name recognition that is mostly "It could have been awesome if they didn't X,YandZ"
But that's certainly better than no name recognition.

I don't understand this "colossal waste of money" thing at all. Domain registration costs like nothing. Nor does sending a cease and desist letter when you've probably got a fleet a lawyers on IP protection anyway.

Baneblade · 2011-03-09, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by morf

I'll lightbulb your face with my fist, u ass.

Jahaha.

Originally Posted by Rbstr

I don't understand this "colossal waste of money" thing at all. Domain registration costs like nothing. Nor does sending a cease and desist letter when you've probably got a fleet a lawyers on IP protection anyway.

Anytime you use a lawyer, you are spending money... and not chump change either.

As someone pointed out, you don't even need a lawyer to enforce copyright and trademark law on domain squatters. Which makes anything to do with a lawyer, a colossal waste of money.

Originally Posted by Bags

Wasn't planetside2.com registered by a community member, then taken by sony via lawyers just because of copy right infringement?

See it?

Bags · 2011-03-09, 07:05 PM

Er, I'm sorry? I just assumed they would have their legal department handle it.

Timantium · 2011-03-09, 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by I SandRock

They were probably using it as a project name. Project X is a common name for projects that are in early development (not just in video games) but have no official name yet.

Also for projects that involve Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt and monkeys piloting spy planes.

Hamma · 2011-03-09, 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by Sobekeus

Anytime you use a lawyer, you are spending money... and not chump change either.

As someone pointed out, you don't even need a lawyer to enforce copyright and trademark law on domain squatters. Which makes anything to do with a lawyer, a colossal waste of money.

In the case of a company like SOE I have to disagree.

These folks have Lawyers on staff, they are doing this shit all the time as well as every other legal issue going on within SOE or whatever company.

In other words, the Lawyers for large companies like SOE are already on the staff they aren't paying anything different by using them for situations like this.

Baneblade · 2011-03-09, 10:59 PM

Sure they have lawyers on staff, but not for minutiae like a web domain.

Raymac · 2011-03-10, 12:20 AM

Originally Posted by Sobekeus

Sure they have lawyers on staff, but not for minutiae like a web domain.

Thats exactly why a company has lawyers on staff. You think they want to pay outside lawyer prices to handle shit like that? There's a couple lawyers in my family, so I get all the stories.

Baneblade · 2011-03-10, 01:54 PM

*shrug*

I think we already covered the part where a lawyer isn't even necessary.

basti · 2011-03-10, 02:22 PM

Then lets get to the fact: Who cares?

Topic. NAme of the game will be Planetside: Xylophone War.
You will play by using a new Sony Keyboard to Xylophone adapter. The better you play, the more kills you get.

Raymac · 2011-03-10, 03:04 PM

I was more hoping for Planetside: Pan Flute War, but I'll take what I can get.

morf · 2011-03-10, 03:18 PM

Maybe they are just thinking ahead to Planetside 10

Traak · 2011-03-10, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by krnasaur

Devs and stuff usually trademark a bunch of names/domain names when they are hiding a title of a game, for example, for pokemon black/white they had also trademarked colors like pokemon maroon and turquoise etc

Yes, this is to combat the issue of having a similar-sounding domain name end up being a portal for porn or something.

....redirecting to Big Boob Bimbos! have credit card ready!

Yeah...no.

morf · 2011-03-13, 10:18 PM

Just wanted to update. Looks like soe also registered the domain name planetsidewarfare.com on february 4th. I missed it on my first search.