They can do that? Disregarding that it's the name of a real thing, nobody else has that trademarked already? With how much people use that star for stuff?
Also, can Proxima Centauri get some love one of these days?
edited 10th Aug '11 9:34:59 AM by KnownUnknown
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
Karkadinn
It's cool, I wanted another reason to stop buying EA games anyway.
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.
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If you read the article, it says that they renewed the trademark, albeit two years late.
Visiting from the Hoag Galaxy
The trademark probably just applies for video games. If Paramount for example wanted to make an unrelated Alpha Centauri movie, EA might try to fight it, but they would probably have their hands tied.
Not Three Laws compliant.
Karkadinn
Does it matter if it only applies to a given industry? I mean, you might as well trademark the dang sun.
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.
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Considering there is a company called Luna Publishing? I think ye might be overreacting a tad.
All this means is that no one else can make a game called "Alpha Centauri." As far as I know it doesn't apply to any other industry. And I bet that people can still set games in Alpha Centauri, as long as they aren't named "Alpha Centauri".
"The fact that your food can be made into makeshift bombs alarms the Hell out of me, Scrye." - Charlatan
I call dibs on Sirius.
"Steel wins battles. Gold wins wars."
Jonah Falcon
I am Sirius. And don't call me Shirley.
Jonah Falcon
Face Time
Wasn't/Isn't there an asteroid named "Apophis"?
"Hipsters: the most dangerous gang in the US." - Pacific Mackerel
Micromastophile
Oh great, calling it now: it's a dumbed down "re-imagining" of the original game, if it's even a TBS still.
edited 10th Aug '11 4:54:22 PM by deuxhero
More like a hack 'n slash or cover based shooter remake that "innovates" the game into the mainstream market.
Thank god EA can't touch System Shock.
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Or better yet: an RTS that has no base-building whatsoever!
Anyways, note how Sid Meier's name isn't there. They're probably pulling a Shift 2.
edited 10th Aug '11 4:53:40 PM by RocketDude
"Hipsters: the most dangerous gang in the US." - Pacific Mackerel
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Micromastophile
No, with history as it is, it's realism.
Oh wait! I got it! It's going to be a Facebook game!
edited 10th Aug '11 4:55:12 PM by deuxhero
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Decemberist
It might be a competitor to the FB Civ game. *Shudders*, that would be ironic though.
Dutch Lesbian
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x6 Or it's a cover-based Hack N' Slash RPG with base-building that innovates the... wait, what the fuck?
I seem to be the only troper who looks at this as good news. Alpha Centauri 2! Yay!
After all, Civ 5 was perfectly fine.
...Or was the original not made by someone owned by EA?
edited 11th Aug '11 7:07:57 AM by Yinyang107
Kagome, Kagome
Civilization 5 was published by 2K Games, the owners of Firaxis.
edited 11th Aug '11 7:23:46 AM by Saigyouji
'twas brillig.
Ah. Then this means neither the Civ5 team nor the SMAC team will be doing SMAC 2 anytime soon? Yeah, this is probably bad.
SOPA? Lol wut? U Mad US?
It would probably change from being "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri" to "Will Wright's Alpha Centauri".
If that was the case, it would probably end up better than an FPS or dumbed-down RTS based on it, but still probably won't be as good as the original.
But the more likely reason is that they want to block any sequels to Alpha Centauri from being made in the first place. Not that Take 2 had any plans to do that, or they would have trademarked it otherwise.
edited 11th Aug '11 9:30:33 AM by flygon250
My standard Anime Theme song game variant rules: [Censored by ACTA]
Gunpla is amazing!
If we're lucky, maybe they'll go "Screw you EA" and release Sid Meier's Proxima Centauri.
A remake of Sid Meier's game or something else?
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