[TriLUG] Gamers: Blizzard shuts down FreeCraft

[Lee]

Bad news fellow TriLUG gamers :-(
-Lee

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| FreeCraft Cease and Desisted by Blizzard                           |
|   from the calling-it-quits dept.                                  |
|   posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday June 21, @09:30 (rts)           |
|   http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/21/1323249              |
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[0]mandreiana writes "As of June 20th, [1]FreeCraft is shut down. The
development team received a cease and desist order due to the name
'FreeCraft' causing possible confusion with the names StarCraft and
WarCraft, and also some of the ideas within the engine were too similar
to WarCraft 2. There will be no more updates to this game, and it is no
longer available for download." Way to go, [2]Blizzard, now the only
competitors to worry about are the ones who can afford lawyers and
actually hold competing market share. Of course, not using a *Craft for a
game project might have kept it under the radar a while longer.

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Links:
     0. http://marius.galuna.ro
     1. http://happypenguin.org/newsitem?id=3801
     2. http://www.blizzard.com/