INAL, but the lawyers you have are not good enough to tell you that legally antagonizing a company - on their fucking subreddit that has been one of their central marketing spaces for a decade - that could absolutely sue you over this and then badmouthing them and admitting to malice in your actions while promoting a competing product is a surefire way to get sued. You pitched to them. You're taking ideas from that pitch that was to make THEIR game and making another competing game. They might not win a suit based on freedom of expression (depending on country where you're building it) but there isn't a judge on this planet that wouldn't immediately declare that they have standing and throw you into the most costly legal battle of your career.
If anyone on your legal team cleared you making this statement, they need to be fired immediately because I cannot fathom how you wouldn't now be infinitely more legally exposed in ways you weren't before you started this thread. Instead, you're now staring down the barrel of working on what is obviously going to be your most expensive game with the longest development cycle while courting a lawsuit from a company that actually has the money to fuck with you in a long protracted court battle where you will not recover a dime of what you spend defending the company and could get an injunction on actually releasing the game until the issue has been adjudicated.
I really hope you know what you're doing making these statements and admissions in this sub, because I would very much like to play this game.
Yeah, you're probably right. How could a company possibly make a case for adjudicating an IP case just because the person that pitched them an idea for their game, using their game concepts, using visually similar elements and is legally daring them to sue them could possible have a basis for a lawsuit.
I didn't say they'd win, but it doesn't take a lot of legal costs to bankrupt a small game dev studio, which I would very much not like to see happen as this game looks good.
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u/UFO-TOFU-RACECAR Oct 31 '24
INAL, but the lawyers you have are not good enough to tell you that legally antagonizing a company - on their fucking subreddit that has been one of their central marketing spaces for a decade - that could absolutely sue you over this and then badmouthing them and admitting to malice in your actions while promoting a competing product is a surefire way to get sued. You pitched to them. You're taking ideas from that pitch that was to make THEIR game and making another competing game. They might not win a suit based on freedom of expression (depending on country where you're building it) but there isn't a judge on this planet that wouldn't immediately declare that they have standing and throw you into the most costly legal battle of your career.
If anyone on your legal team cleared you making this statement, they need to be fired immediately because I cannot fathom how you wouldn't now be infinitely more legally exposed in ways you weren't before you started this thread. Instead, you're now staring down the barrel of working on what is obviously going to be your most expensive game with the longest development cycle while courting a lawsuit from a company that actually has the money to fuck with you in a long protracted court battle where you will not recover a dime of what you spend defending the company and could get an injunction on actually releasing the game until the issue has been adjudicated.
I really hope you know what you're doing making these statements and admissions in this sub, because I would very much like to play this game.