November 13, 2004
"No homages for you!"
Hey, here's a swift move that will no doubt make Marvel the favorite company of any number of fans and potential fans. Marvel is suing the City of Heroes folks because players of the online game can use its extremely flexible character design to design characters that look and act like ... well, Marvel super-heroes.
How ... adult of them.
It's not that CoH has Marvel characters, or knock-offs thereof, inherently in it. It's just that there's nothing to stop players from creating big, strong, angry characters with green skin and purple pants. Or agile fighters with claws coming out of their hands and yellow/black/blue costumes. Or ... well, you get the idea. And, in fact, players can name their characters ... well, whatever they want. Including names that are trademarked by Marvel.
This is, of course, the fault of the software publisher and the company that hosts the game on their servers.
Feh. I think Scott Kurtz's commentary on the subject is spot on.
Posted by Dave at 4:05 PM
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