ZacKing

This is like the opposite of what you whined about in other threads on the topic. Posters on here are making it fairly clear they are doing the happy dance now that they have the "official" ok to report others. Griefing is going to occur, just like it did on live. Good luck to them fielding all of the incoming "infringement" reports. It's going to be genericize first, answer questions later. if they feel like they want to.

It's either ok to make cosplays and/or homages in the game or it isn't. pick one and stick with it.

Running an unauthorized server using code that was stolen from the owner is legal? News to me.

That Marvel lawsuit was settled because Marvel had no case and didn't have the money to lose on it. Quite clear they were IP mining to try and make some money any way they could.

Probably got tired of listening to whiners bitch about it. Policies don't work if they aren't enforced. Seems to me the code of conduct isn't being enforced at all given the pollution of offensive names and characters in the game. I bet everyone has a policy. 99.99% of never enforce it. Go on Amazon and search for spiderman or mickey mouse tshirts. No way all those sellers have a license or permission.

That doesn't seem to be the case from what I see. game is polluted with these. Watch the help and LFG chat for a while. Toon names there are really gross.

What about offensive characters designed to look like and named stuff like "Bloody Tampon", "Afro Booty", "Engorged Member", "Ex Crackwhore" and such? Those things are kosher? Very surprised this kind of stuff is allowed on these servers.

Degree is lost on you too it seems. But feel free to keep doing illegal things and breaking rules yet telling others they shouldn't. That's not being quasi hypocritical. it's the real deal.

I said it was not infringement in my opinion meaning I would not be an anal retentive hypocrite and report someone for it. Not difficult to understand. Guess the concept of degree of severity is lost on you.

If you can't make the distinction between making a cosplay toon in a video game and real life physical violence I don't know what to tell you. Never once have I said making copycats is not illegal. Of course it is and people shouldn't do it. But some do and it is in a freaking 10 year old video game. This is what keeps you up at night? And for those on their high horse to sit there and say its ok for them do illegally use someone elses property but it is not ok when someone else does it is hypocrisy. Says a lot about the kind of person they are.

You're trying to compare someone making a cosplay to a real life stabbing? really? Better suggestion - mind your own business and let others mind their own business. Problem solved for everyone.

I know BS when I see it. Bottom line is you are illegally using NCSofts property each and every time you log into the game. Yet have the audacity to sit on a high horse to dictate to others what they should and should not do is hypocrisy.

Complete BS is a more appropriate word. You're ok breaking the rules or doing something illegal so long as it is something you like. No credibility as far as I'm concerned. You have and are breaking the rules or law or whatever just like everyone else.

^ hit the nail solidly on the head.

So you have never watched a pirated movie, drove too fast, took a drink when you were under age or anything else even remotely illegal. Give us a break.

Fun fact for you - this kind of thing happens every single day and nobody cares. Go anywhere like Las Vegas or LA or NYC and there are cosplayers taking money for posing for photographs and not forking over a penny to the copyright holder. You ever been to vegas? There are more Elvis impersonators than there are tourists. Lisa Marie is not batting an eye.

heh of course not.

Going a mile over the posted speed limit is illegal and is more likely to do a ton more harm than cosplaying in a video game. But I guess you never do that at all.

I'm not talking about selling as in paying cash for it. Someone virtually cosplaying can say they are green arrow or the flash or the Hulk all they want, they aren't the real thing. There is a very simple solution to this issue as I see it. The devs can add every variation of every copyrighted or trademarked character name into the restricted list and program restrictions costume restrictions for every variant of every comic hero including powers combo. When people start creating about the lack of customization, the GMs can forward those comments to the costume police and have them explain how someone making a cosplay toon is hurting them. People are making cosplays all over the place. I see them in CO, Neverwinter, STO, WoW, you name it. No one is losing any sleep over them there. This is more about someone feeling they need to dictate to others what they should and should do as far as I'm concerned. I see way more offensively named and themed characters in here than I do cosplays. Nobody seems to object to those at all even though they could just as easily lead to a lawsuit.

copycats here aren't being sold as the real deal. you're not Batman or Spiderman running around in Metropolis fighting Brainiac or the Kingpin. And forget about the Marvel suit. That was years ago. marvel was a different company back then and was looking to break into the game industry. They've got enough products out there on the market now. I doubt they will even bat an eye over this.

copycats are not being sold as the real thing. Basically all of the ones I've seen in my time here are more parody than anything else.

Copycats are not an infringement in my opinion.

I think any mutant who is claws regen is compelling enough for me to think Wolverine. Superheroes are burned into the brain of the culture now. It's impossible not to see the similarity.

Close enough for me to reasonably say clone of Wolverine. Comics characters are so in-grained into the popular culture it is pretty much impossible to not see it. If you don't you're disingenuous. Standing in Atlas Park right now, I can probably report about 95% of players here but I don't. Let others enjoy themselves. ::shrug::