Sephlock, on 04 June 2014 - 05:01 PM, said:
Question: What would happen if they let us mix and match parts more freely (on the Clan mechs, or with future IS Omnimechs), and the parts JUST SO HAPPENED to be designed in such a way that a player could, COMPLETELY ON THEIR OWN, come up with a design that looks like a Marauder?
Could HG still sue
?
Yes, and they would, even if they wouldn't succeed, because HG is a bigger company and can thus afford to tie PGI and/or IGP up in court until the funds run out. There are reasons that NCSoft carefully avoided making copies of Marvel and DC heroes truly possible in CoH and proceeded to
very enthusiastically rename and require re-costuming of characters players made that were named/suited to be especially similar to such supers. And if you really think that HG is less a bag of crotch-mounted-PPCs than Marvel (I don't really know enough about DC to say either way on that one), then I've got this bridge in New York I'm selling.....
Edited by Quickdraw Crobat, 05 June 2014 - 03:04 AM.