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[Vassago Rain]

Redshift2k5, on 31 August 2012 - 02:19 PM, said:

It's a lot harder than 'adjusting the design a little', because the rights-holding company can still take you to court over any perceived infringement.

Then it's up to a judge to decide if it is or is not infringement, and even winning such a case is costly.

FASA fought over these rights for years and never won them, why does everyone think it would be easy for PGI to do the same?

It's not that hard.

Warhammer is a bipedal robot, with a little missile launcher on its shoulder, and two guns for arms. I can think of so many ways to use that to make something that doesn't look anything like the 80s source material.

[Belorion]

Lots of miss information in this thread.

Playmates didn't sue Fasa, Fasa sued Playmates because playmates ripped off Fasa designs. Fasa lost. During the case HG discovered that some of Fasa's designs were patterned after the Macross designs. Fasa had licensed these designs from a company who held the rights to the miniatures.

Most likely Fasa would have won. They couldn't afford to win. They settled out of court. It didn't effect all of the unseen. Some of them were licensed though other IP, but Fasa, gun shy at this point, pulled all the designs.

[Geminus]

I just want my Marauders. Please give me my marauders. The minute a marauder is available on MWO I will sell every mech I have, Buy every Marauder variant, and do a naked happy dance.

[Cache]

River Walker, on 31 August 2012 - 02:05 PM, said:

Back when Battletech was Battledroids, the original 'Droids ....

Wouldn't it have been easier just to provide a link to that page on my website?

(Ugh... sorry all. Didn't notice the thread necromancy.)

Edited by cache, 14 December 2012 - 01:01 PM.

[Farix]

Geminus, on 14 December 2012 - 12:46 PM, said:

I just want my Marauders. Please give me my marauders. The minute a marauder is available on MWO I will sell every mech I have, Buy every Marauder variant, and do a naked happy dance.

But your Marauder would look like this



Still want it?

[bug3at3r]

Farix, on 14 December 2012 - 02:08 PM, said:

But your Marauder would look like this



Still want it?

Not necessarily.

There are things about PGI I'm not happy with, but they do an excellent job making fugly mechs look appealing.

Hell, could as simply slap a cannon on top of the Cataphract and call it a Marauder. Memory serves me right the Cataphract was made up of mostly Marauder parts but they had to come up with a new assembly line after loosing a planet that housed a lot of their manufacturing.