World of StarCraft Mod Gets C&D From Blizzard 227
eldavojohn writes "If you've been following the team who created World of StarCraft (an amazing mod of StarCraft II to be more like World of Warcraft), their YouTube video of what they've done so far has already resulted in a cease and desist from Activision/Blizzard. Evidently when you are given tools to make custom mods to games you should be careful about making something too good. The author of the mod is hopeful that it's just a trademark problem with the name of his mod, but few reasons for the C&D were given."
In other StarCraft news, reader glwtta recommends an article about how a Berkeley team won the world's first StarCraft AI competition with code that can beat even pro-level human players.
When you see something like this... (Score:4, Funny)
...a smart company with plenty of resources like Blizzard/Activation should be saying: "Hey, you guys want a job?"
Re:They better... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:They better... (Score:5, Funny)
Hugs and Kisses, Blizzard.
Re:When you see something like this... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wait... (Score:2, Funny)
Blizzard is suing people for a mod that makes one of Blizzard's games, Starcraft 2, more like another one of Blizzard's games, World of Warcraft? How exactly is Blizzard harmed by this; is it causing Blizzard to lose game sales to themselves?
Your description of the cyclical nature of this controversy evokes an image of Blizzard with their own head up their own ass.