UPDATE NOTE
There seems to be some (understandable) confusion in regards to where the lawsuit is coming from. To clarify, "Bethesda Softworks" (publisher and developer of game titles) and "Bethesda Game Studios" (Creators of games like Oblivion, Skyrim etc.) are not the same entity. BGS is an in-house game-making team led by Todd Howard which is one part of Bethesda Softworks, and has no direct connection to the lawsuit in progress by Bethesda Softworks. Unless further specified by the acronym "BGS", any references to Bethesda in the following article assume "Bethesda Softworks". Sorry about the confusion!
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Mojang has been in development of another project (which we went over in our last installment), which bears the working name "Scrolls". Bethesda has expressed concern that players could mix up this new game with their own "Elder Scrolls" series, although the two seem to share no noticeable similarities beyond the word "scrolls".
Notch said that their office received a 15-page cease-and-desist letter, claiming that Mojang would be sued for rights to the word, along with formal requests for legal fees. He went on to say that they are attempting to establish talks with Bethesda regarding the word, to find an amicable solution for both parties. At the time of this writing, there was no available response from Bethesda.
We will continue to update this article as information becomes available.
Notch said that their office received a 15-page cease-and-desist letter, claiming that Mojang would be sued for rights to the word, along with formal requests for legal fees. He went on to say that they are attempting to establish talks with Bethesda regarding the word, to find an amicable solution for both parties. At the time of this writing, there was no available response from Bethesda.
We will continue to update this article as information becomes available.
Bethesda is and always will be better at making games in there genre than Mojang is at making games in there genre.
My respect is now lost, I only respect the games now, not the company. This is bull.
IT GOT THE WORD "CRAFT" IN IT SO MOJANG OWNS IT!
WTF?!?!
Despite Bethesda's major dun goofing, I'm still looking forward to Skyrim.
While it may come across as childish to you, I personally appreciate that this was posted to the public. I am a fan of both companies for completely different reasons, and the concept of this case is ridiculous, but I wouldn't have even known about it otherwise.
I'd consider it the same if Blizzard tried to sue the World of Goo creators or Minecraft for similar reasons. It's a word. A company's level of title creativity shouldn't matter. What matters is the originality/similarity of the content, and from what I can tell, the games are nothing alike.
About Notch tweeting about it, that's not something I have an opinion on, so uh.. *shrug*
EDIT: I should state that if Notch called the games "World of Minecraft" or "The Old Scrolls", I might be understanding. But come on.
Bethesda had no personal role in this.
At least someone realizes this.