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Germ posted:Very nicely stated, JackMann. Agreed. People tend to look at copyright and trademark situations as "Look what those assholes at Company X did to these little guys! What a bunch of douchebags!" They don't realize that if a company is not actively protecting their IP, they stand a very high risk of losing it and the protection that a customer gets with that mark.
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It requires quite a bit more than simply not pursuing every single unauthorized use of a trademark to lose it - it is far more common to lose a trademark to genericide, like Kleenex or or zipper, rather than pervasive unathorized use of a non-abandoned trademark. Is there any way of restricting kickstarters to a region? If Gamezone's Spanish trademark is legitimate, there should be nothing preventing them from marketing their game and selling it in Spain, although I'll admit I'm not an expert on international trademark disputes at all.
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I don't think you can run a kickstarter from Spain.
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Phoon posted:I don't think you can run a kickstarter from Spain. Not yet. They were using a Canadian partner
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The campaign was so wildly crafted to skirt around US law that any US court that wound up with the case would obviously see through the charade (and its also easy to find jurisdiction)
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Plus given all the assorted EU trade agreements the odds of it flying despite them only having the license in Spain were close to nil; they clearly intended on selling it to other countries where they didn't have the rights.
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So, FedEx tried to deliver my Deadzone stuff to the wrong address, now I have to go to the distribution site to pick it up in an hour or so. However I got my Basius, and Happy Seppuku baseing imprint molds last week, and took some pictures! Basius, I was kinda surprised that they cast them in straight up resin, its kinda nice though as they shouldn't ever wear out.    Happy Seppuku, lots of detail, I look forward to testing them out.      Between the two sets I should never have to buy another pre-detailed base again.
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Those Happy Seppuku ones look much better in their finished form, I hope you post how they turn out.
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LumberingTroll posted:So, FedEx tried to deliver my Deadzone stuff to the wrong address, now I have to go to the distribution site to pick it up in an hour or so. Sucks. But at least yours is close - I keep checking the Fedex update on mine and it doesn't even look like they have picked it up from Mantic yet.
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My Basius stuff arrived about 5 minutes ago, and it all seems pretty good. Looks like you have all the ones I do bar wooden decking, and a few more I don't have. Between Solaco Aftermath, Baker Street Infinity AD, Mountains, Wooden decking and Baker Street 1825 AD I think I've got all my bases covered 
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Deadzone has arrived! Fresh from the box and un-organized  Sorted  Note that these have only been addons. and now the contents of one of the base boxes.  All-in-all not too bad, though I am missing 13 of the terrain sprues, and I haven't gone through the bags of figures yet.
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Zhent posted:Sucks. But at least yours is close - I keep checking the Fedex update on mine and it doesn't even look like they have picked it up from Mantic yet. My tracking never updated at all and it was delivered this morning.
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A day later and Burning Suns has posted another update saying that he's going to stop cocking around with pledge levels and just give people what they asked for. Which is a huge relief
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LumberingTroll posted:
Would you kindly upload a big picture of just the Happy Seppuku Flagstone stamp?
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Dec 7, 2013 08:53
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Argent: The Consortium, which is being published by the people who made BattleCON: Devastation of Indines, put out a preview rulebook for their game. Unfortunately, it is one of those games that mostly relies on variant powers and whatnot, so it's hard to gauge whether the game is any good, but early buzz from BGGCon has been positive. But so is most things from BGG, so it's hard to tell whether it is actually any good.
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I was excited to find a shipping notice from Mantic. Then I realized that it was for the Crazy Christmas box I ordered, and not my Deadzone reward. Alas.
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http://www.verkami.com/projects/7464-heroquest-25th-anniversary Heroquest-kickstarter is back in business. Now in spanish kickstarting site.
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That is the definition of chutzpah
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Why don't they just change the name? Unless they're trying to market the game by squeezing nostalgia for somebody else's produc- oh i get it now
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jammu posted:http://www.verkami.com/projects/7464-heroquest-25th-anniversary I'm getting a 404 page, so maybe not so much?
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Baron Snow posted:I'm getting a 404 page, so maybe not so much? Same here, I'm guessing at this point that they certainly do not have the rights to be making any kind of new game. At least not one called Heroquest 25th anniversary.
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Baron Snow posted:I'm getting a 404 page, so maybe not so much? Too bad. It was up about 5-6 hours. Someone had hurry to shut it down, as that happened Sunday 5am local spanish time.
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LumberingTroll posted:Deadzone has arrived! Jesus, that's a tremendous amount of stuff, what specifically did you get? I'm just trying to get a hold on how much my Strike Team order is relative to that. My FedEx tracking says it is still stuck in Britain, sadly.
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Anyone need legally distinct from the cast of the Walking Dead miniatures?
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Oh, excellent! Here I was, thinking to myself, "You know what the world really needs? ANOTHER goddamn zombie miniature kickstarter." My prayers have been answered.
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Any hopes of getting a Bicycle Card kickstarter soon?
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Sure, if you like zombie rage face hentai for the royalty.
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But where's the zombie Serenity crew?
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Adam Kensai posted:Jesus, that's a tremendous amount of stuff, what specifically did you get? I'm just trying to get a hold on how much my Strike Team order is relative to that. The last image is what you can expect, I got the 3 strike team bundle and a bunch of terrain, which is where all the loose sprues come from.
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Costume Fairy Adventures is down to its final hours. It's funded, but still about $1,000 from its goon-penned first stretch goal. Ewen Cluney! He writes cute stuff! Also, this section of the most recent Ryuutama update made me smile: quote:Okada/Cafe Daydream lamented that they wish they had better music to play over the speakers (they usually cycle instrumental versions of Greensleeves) over the cafe speakers on Western Gaming Nights It is a catchy song.
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Where Art Thou, Romeo? 6th TG KS project he has successfully funded, and it's only a dollar. 1/3 the cost of CoinAge and 5 times the cards, what a deal!
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Paper Kaiju posted:Oh, excellent! Here I was, thinking to myself, "You know what the world really needs? ANOTHER goddamn zombie miniature kickstarter." My prayers have been answered. I feel so unbelievably sad. I too immediately rolled my eyes at yet another Zombie themed thing, but then started going 'whoo' at the scenery pieces. I may have spent money on buying tiny wheely bins and skips.
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My copy of The Agents arrived this morning (I'm in the UK), apparently shipped from Israel, which was slightly puzzling at first.
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Lemon Curdistan posted:My copy of The Agents arrived this morning (I'm in the UK), apparently shipped from Israel, which was slightly puzzling at first. People are saying that "you can just sand the decks down and remove that" but I shouldn't have to do that for the price I paid for the KS. I guess I could count myself lucky that I wasn't one of the many who received a damaged set due to poor packaging.
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Yeah, that's on mine too. The cards are made of plastic or something, I think? Which is weird. I'm not hugely bothered by it, to be fair.
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Finally got my shipping notification from Deadzone. 10.8 pounds, and it ships out tomorrow. Hopefully I'll see it before Christmas.
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So I definitely got screwed out of an Enforcers Faction Booster on Deadzone that I chose/paid for. Fantastic. Not sure if it's the right place but I sent a message to Mantic via the Deadzone kickstarter. Edit: Wow looks like it's happened to a LOT of people. Fenarisk fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Dec 12, 2013 |
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Fenarisk posted:So I definitely got screwed out of an Enforcers Faction Booster on Deadzone that I chose/paid for. Fantastic. There's a form on their website to fill out for anything missing from your package iirc In theory mine will arrive NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Dec 12, 2013 |
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Fenarisk posted:So I definitely got screwed out of an Enforcers Faction Booster on Deadzone that I chose/paid for. Fantastic. The faction booster, or the starter? The boosters haven't gone out yet due to getting the tooling right.
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