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I think it goes deeper than that. I think people in this era are a lot more sensitive to criticism and more easily moved to lurking with their own group, who think the same. I'm wondering if it's a product of the Internet and the increasing choice of entertainment/information, making it easier...

Actually, they've been doing that to other people, as this thread shows. Army Builder is a trademarked phrase - Heroscapers It looks like they got the same letter, maybe without the 72 hour notice, and the guy complied, and he actually felt the company was "very cool" about it.

Two memes seem to be creeping up. The first whether or not Lone Wolf went too far. That's debatable (which is what we are doing). The second thing is people are offended by the term "Army Builder" now being a trademark. While I've discussed this before, the following other terms are...

Trademarks can be used to describe a product, or to reference a product itself. That's not what this was about. Remember, the specifics of this case was not every single use of Army Builder, but forum entries where people were referring to their battalion constructor as "Army Builder". Such...

Lone Wolf is not White Wolf. :blush: This is what I hate about "mob mentality". My bet is half the people commenting here never bought either a PP or LW product, yet now people are rallying to one and reviling the other. Ideology is worthless unless you get facts and make an informed decision.

Thanks for that! I find Privateer's response a lot less snarky now that I have context. It only seemed snarky because it seemed like they were inserting their own trademark and/or trying for publicity. Well, I hate to say it, but like the OGL fans and the retro-clone makers like to...

Actually, I hate to say it, but I think Privateer did the wrong thing. They basically responded to what was likely to be a private inquiry with a public snarky and sarcastic response. This only turned into a tempest because of what Privateer did, not anything Lone Wolf did. It looks like what...

Doesn't matter. Two things happened. It went through the USPTO due dilligence, which means a government attorney reviewed and found it to be a valid trademark. They have to review these things and determine if getting a trademark is fair. It has been successfully registered for 5 years with...

I'm going to post the two posts from the President of Lone Wolf from those linsk above, because I think it will be relevant, and I think some people are too lazy to leave ENWorld.

Actually, that isn't so unusual. I remember in the late 1970s a little pamphlet came with my LEGO set telling people to try to avoid using the term "Legos" and saying instead "LEGO bricks and toys". Companies really work hard to prevent their trademark from becoming a verb. And actually, the...

Rather than just mindlessly "stick up for the underdog", I decided to do a little research. Here is the information from the free on-line USPTO.GOV site. This tells me a few things. 1) They've been using it in their products since 1998. 2) The registered it in 2004. There was no...

Instead of responding to different opinions rudely and with dripping sarcasm, you should at least try to understand things from the historical perspective. I never said pikes were removed, or that everything changed all at once. And I never made mention of Full Plate at all. Early Modern...

I have noted when Gygax used guns, they were always under the assumption that such elements were temporal anomalies from another time, and the assumption was they were good toys for the PCs but once the ammo ran out, they were worthless. This kept things interesting but it didn't do anything...

The big problem I have with Guns, and what EGG and I co-wrote in a sidebar of Living Fantasy, is the fact that the adoption of the gun pretty much changed a lot of things that would change the historical background. (And this has nothing to do with armor penetration). A gun enabled conscripted...

Honestly, the move towards cards, tokens, and the like tell me that the game industry is doing what a lot of people try to advocate. "Adapt to new business models" I see that said a lot when they talk about dealing with piracy--so making the games look more like collectables with cards...

This reminds me of the case done in the 90s where Gary Gygax testified for an inmate who felt he was unfairly targeted when the Warden had his gaming correspondence destroyed. I wish I could remember the details...

That's somewhat naive. One thing I've noticed about the Internet is that, in terms of commerce, it actually can reduce competition. Because you can ship to anywhere in the US, for instance, competition on the entire market is probably limited to what you would have gotten in a local area...

Ah, but if we are talking about limited resources, moving from paper to e-books has might actually turn out to be an increase in resources. Which is Greener: Paper or Digital? The Answer May Surprise You | The DocuMentor | ZDNet.com Metaprinter – News Media Innovation, Convergence and...

I understand, and just to be clear I was not trying to say or imply anybody who contributed to that project was doing that. I guess it was a more or less ill-written (and admittedly grumpy) rant towards the general nature of charity in general and my own beliefs (contribution should be its...

The thing to remember is that there are always consequences. I mostly use Amazon nowadays--but then I've always been an odd duck as I don't like to "go shopping", and I embraced the mail order world. However, there are always consequences to actions. If you choose to get products at the...