Comments on: Chinese Firm Claims WoW Ninja’d Its Fonts

By: Denxan

Denxan — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:32:31 +0000

Hmmm… a bit odd, but ok. So many bizarre things happening in the MMO world lately. Maybe I’m not understanding the situation correctly, but I didn’t know you could sue someone over using a language in a game.

Ridiculous? I’d say so.

By: Exodere

Exodere — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:10:39 +0000

Denxan, it’s not the language it’s the very shape of the characters which have been designed by someone, like Arial or Times New Roman with our alphabet.

By: Lone

Lone — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:07:31 +0000

I’m guessing the letters in question are the ones saying “(The) Burning Crusade” and sure I see their point… there has been quite a few copys of the games sold in China I’m sure and if the company that owns the font were to get paid for use in each copy they have sure lost a lot of money now… I guess that’s how they have calculated the loss, otherwise I’m not sure I understand.
I still say it’s hard to prove that it wasn’t just a case of similar thinking in the design. There are no proofs that Blizzard just found the font and used it, or is there? It could be as simple as that they happened to design that font themselves and that it turned out to be similar to the existing one. I’d like to see a comparison between the letters in both fonts.
And even if it really is the same exact font perhaps Blizzard got it from a free font site where someone had uploaded the not actually free font for everyone to use. It wouldn’t be the first time that has happened I’m sure.
I don’t know how the legal system works in China but I’d say it should be hard to tell who was really in the wrong here… If it turns out that the font really belongs to that company but Blizzard can prove that they didn’t knowingly use it illegally, what’s would happen exactly?

By: Jean'erre

Jean'erre — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:18:02 +0000

Look, nothing but blizzard supporters spilling their beans.

You have no idea of the situation and here you are saying “blizz couldn’t have done such a thing.”

you fail. 1/10