The fuck are you talking about wrt Cyberpunk? It was already the trademarked name of the boardgame that all this new shit draws from, the boardgame that coined the fucking term in the first place.
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TAG@lemmy.world 9 months agoHumble (the company that sells Bundles) has some games listed as DRM free games in their store. Never bought individual games from them, but I have gotten DRM free games in their bundles.
Also, fuck GOG. They are owned by CD Project Red, the piece of shit lawyers who trademarked the term cyberpunk.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
TAG@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They purchased the trademark from the old role playing game and then expanded it, if I recall.
The RPG did not invent the term. It was riding the hype of cyberpunk literature. The first use of the term is from 1980 (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cyberpunk). According to Wikipedia, the game did not come out until 1988 (…m.wikipedia.org/…/Cyberpunk_(role-playing_game) ).
yamanii@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What are you even talking a out, there are plenty of games with cyberpunk in the tittle on steam.
TAG@lemmy.world 9 months ago
And CD Project Red has the right to sue those publishers.
Of course, if they do and the other side chooses to fight, they will have to explain to a judge why the trademark was granted to them despite a mountain of prior art describing games as cyberpunk.
HerrBeter@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Muh witcher
healthetank@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Pretty sure they bought the trademark from the company who owned it previous (for a 1980s era board game if I recall correctly). They bought it to prevent shitty 2077 clones with the same name from popping up. I haven’t heard of them actively pursuing copyright infringement against others who use cyberpunk.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
2077 and its spinoffs are literally set in the boardgame universe and an updated rulebook was released at the same time as the game.
2077 and Edgerunners are just stories set in the setting and universe from the boardgame. The Arasaka Tower Heist, Johnny Silverhand, Morgan Blackhand, all the corps, gangs, and cyberware are right from the boardgame. The story had heavy involvement from the creator of the board game as well. For fucks sake he does the voice of Maximum Mike on the in game radio.
Did people not realize that Cyberpunk 2077 is just another Witcher situation, but this time the original author wanted to stay a part of things?
TAG@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Just because they are not openly pursuing enforcement does not mean that they will not. Just the audacity to trademark a generic term widely used in media discussion makes me think that they are being represented by scumbag lawyers.
healthetank@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
The term has been trademarked since 1995 for different uses. This isn’t anything new and there’s no signs they intend to use it aggressively. trademarks.justia.com/…/cyberpunk-85681741.html