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Mythic Sues Microsoft Over Mythica MMORPG

Posted by simoniker on from the absolutely-lindowsiculous dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mythic Entertainment, developers of PC MMO videogame Dark Age of Camelot, has filed suit against Microsoft, arguing that Microsoft's upcoming MMORPG Mythica is too similar in name and content (it 'also employs Norse images and mythology') to its own name and flagship title. Maybe if game developers could dream up a genre other than fantasy, problems like this would be averted..."

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  1. Fantasy by truth_revealed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe if game developers could dream up a genre other than fantasy, problems like this would be averted...

    How about this exciting new genre: plumbers, drywallers and electricians duke it out for world supremecy!

    1. Re:Fantasy by cK-Gunslinger · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or better yet - LawQuest! You could choose from classes such as Intellectual Property Lawyer, Personal Injury Lawyer, or the lowly Public Defender..

      That could be cool. You could level up your characters why chasing ambulances, then finally team up with other players to defend a celebrity accused of murder, hoping they will drop the golden precedent, etc. But you'd have to watch out for those PKers. You can't turn your back on a lawyer, not even a digital one!

      Oh, and we could have a new acronym: IANALBIPOO (..But I Play One Online)

  2. Lindows reference by DeathPenguin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I couldn't help but to grin at this:

    "We would expect Microsoft to react no differently if someone launched an operating system called Microsofta just as Microsoft did when confronted with an operating system called Lindows," Mythic President and Chief Executive Mark Jacobs said."

    While I got a kick out of it at first, it sort of seems to validate Microsoft's lawsuit. It certainly is an amusing twist of irony, though.

  3. In other news... by TimTurnip · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...direct descendants of King Arthur are suing Mythic for unauthorized use of the his namesake.

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    Chicks dig my good /. karma.

  4. A genre other than fantasy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do you realize how silly I'd look with my new "hobbit" foot and ear implants if fantasy becomes passe?

  5. Re:Go MS! by SoSueMe · · Score: 5, Funny

    A.P news has a qoute fron Odin: "I'm pretty thor over all of this".

  6. Dark Age of Camelot is STUNNINGLY UNORIGINAL by popo · · Score: 5, Insightful


    I used to play DAOC. I used to love DAOC. But a creator of new ideas DAOC is not.

    Dark Age uses the most widespread, obvious and well-known cultural and mythological references for its game world.

    We must remember that Mythic's case against Microsoft constitutes a claim of ownership over these themes.

    For once Microsoft is right.

    Mythic: you should have been more original if you wanted something protectable.

    Verdict goes to the defendant.

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