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Why not just have dudes in suits following our children around at school, and if they say or mention anything about the word "Scrolls"(insert trademark here if you're an asshat), they sue the kid's family? Hell, by the logic that these idiots are trying to shove onto us, they should've already sued the crap out of anything that involved the words "Fall" "out" "Fallout" and the numbers 1,2, and 3...

And yet another example of a butthurt fanboy. Example B: Jcooper1842

Look, there is nothing "adult" about what Bethesda (Or Zenimax for you pickier people) is doing here. There's nothing more cheap and stupid than suing another game company just to draw in publicity.

You know nothing of marketing tricks, do you? It's obvious by how many times anyone in the comments or the post has name-dropped the elder scrolls games, including me. Even if it is used in a negative manner, they're still introducing people to the seriesor just drawing attention. In the market the only bad attention is no attention, so everyone tries to hype up their game as much as possible. This whole scandal is just a ploy to draw attention to the new upcoming Skyrim. One obvious clue is that Skyrim's release date is right around the corner.

Once again calling us childeren and them "adults" and having them "sort this out as adults" could not be farther from the truth. This is more or less simply stupid of Bethesda, a company I once loved, and it's stupid of those supporting it.

If anything the release would give them MORE business.

im with imecraft on this

people saying that they cant own a word guess what its something called copyrighting. it depends how they copyrighted it ( the whole phrase (the elder scrolls) or word by word). so basically they kind of do. and Why did Notch have to post this as soon as he got it? now you got most of the mincraft community blaming Bethesda not there legal team. and Notch is so nice he really likes Bethesda but the LAWERS screwed it up

Becuase of this Bethesda should sue all of the following,
Runescape for the clue scrolls,
and World of Warcraft,
and J.K. Rowling and J. R. R. Tolkien,
and ALL Medevil RPGs,
and ALL RPGs,
and ALL Fictional books with Magic,
and ALL Fictional Television shows with elves and other forms of magic,
and ALL of Medevil Europe, which is almost all the Western counties,
and ALL of Ancient Greek,
and the actual creators of the scroll, as far as I care, The Ancient Egyptions and Mesopotamians.

So far all of these and more have and will always have scrolls.

Bethesda is scared at how fast Minecraft is growing, and if more people are playing Minecraft than Skyrim that would be considered bad business for them.

Also Gratz Notch on 3 million copies sold. Keep rackin them up.

Fail...

Cool Story Bethesda.

I just emailed the bethseda costumer support with one word "scrolls"

no one owns the word "Scroll"/"Scrolls" it's a name in the vocabulary and anyone can use it as long as it's not enhanced with the word "elder"
so basically they can get lost or loose the trial and loose some money for sewing Us. It makes no sense what they are doing. i would gladly go to court if i would get sued for such insignificant thing. I would say to those guys you sued us now there is no turning back KTB.

there are heaps of games that have the word scroll in. WHY DONT YOU SUE THEM AS WELL BETHEDSA!

@Never Summer
At least we can talk about it here and we have been told what is going on. Bethesda is locking any thread on the matter on their site.

Zansabure that is exactly my point in my post.

Bethesda: That'ssss a very nice indie game you have there... it'd be a ssssshame if sssssomething happened to it......

Mojang: but the games aren't even related other than the title D:

Bethesda: problem? you mad? >:3

!!!Alert!!! we have now established a new level of trolling d*****ness, have a nice day

I'm sorry, but that is totally pathetic. You don't see Jagex suing every landscaping corporation for having "scape", you don't see google suing for every use of the word "tube", and you don't see R* suing for every use of the word "auto".
But I say "bring it". If they want to lose a crapload of cash, fine by me. If they're willing to sue over something that insignificant they don't deserve the money.

My reaction

I actually thought this was a joke when I read it.

This is pathetic Bethesda! You need to leash your lawyers and get a grip on reality here!

Bethesda just wants some of Mojang's considerable fortune. I doubt they'll get ant money.

how stupid is this. lots of games have scrolls in the name

scrolls were around before any of this was invented! bethesda needs to cool it cause maybe God should sue her or him for using the words elder and scrolls cause she never even made the words. wow she/he is ridiculus, now people might not want to play their game cause they sued mojang