FreeCraft Cease and Desisted by Blizzard

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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Re:It's a shame but freeCraft was in the wrong her

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If I remember correctly, Freecraft was just a remake of the engine, still requiring the original game files (kinda like ScummVM) Sure, change the name, but everything else should be fine. Do car engine makers attack one another when they use the same kind of gasoline?