FreeCraft Cease and Desisted by Blizzard

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday June 21, 2003 @01:30AM from the calling-it-quits dept.

mandreiana writes "As of June 20th, FreeCraft is shut down. The development team received a cease and desist order due to the name 'FreeCraft' causing possible confusion with the names StarCraft and WarCraft, and also some of the ideas within the engine were too similar to WarCraft 2. There will be no more updates to this game, and it is no longer available for download." Way to go, Blizzard, now the only competitors to worry about are the ones who can afford lawyers and actually hold competing market share. Of course, not using a *Craft for a game project might have kept it under the radar a while longer.

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FreeCraft Stole Blizzards IP by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-21 02:09 · Score: 0, Flamebait

If this screenshot is any indication:

http://happypenguin.org/images/cloneshot.gif

Then it's obvious why Blizzard shut them down. They RIPPED OFF THEIR GRAPHICS!
Re:name change? by Coniptor · 2003-06-21 10:50 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Get a clue dipshit
They weren't out to create a wholy original work!
It's supposed to be as similar to warcraft and I believe that other viking game blizzard made.
If you had ever been to their original website and bothered to read it you would KNOW this.