How so? It fits the regex of numerous King games, something like /^.+\s+Saga$/
What I don't understand about the response is if they wanted to be jerks they'd sue Banner Saga guys and "Lego Star Wars: The complete SAGA" also. Or if they wanted to get massive internet karma basically for free they'd license the use of the "banner saga" name to the makers with an extra clause that its only $1 as long as its the last time they ever name something "* Saga". But no they march right down the middle taking neither side.
I don't think anyone involved would be very amused if I changed my HN name to "jaegerpicker saga" and started posting rants about how "I" love american IP law.
Of all the stinky things about IP law, this sort of reputation management / consumer protection system is the least stinky. Oh don't get me wrong, it is in fact stinky, just everything else in that general area is worse.
It's not related because King's games are on completely different platforms and of a completely different type. The overlap in players has to be pretty small. Beyond that the word Saga has been used for an extremely long time prior to King existing. The name Saga as in the Scandinavian Saga's are central to the games themes.
Honestly I wouldn't care if you posted under jaegerpicker saga, that doesn't affect the quality of my posts. Sure there are worse things about IP law but all of it's bad and I'm against any company that uses it as a weapon.
Its to prevent confusion. jaegerpicker, now is he the guy who likes American IP law or hates it? Imagine you getting sued because of something a copycat who stole your name wrote. What a drag for you.
I just don't see trademarks as all that bad. As a thought experiment, imagine a world without a trademark system, it would suck for everyone. Customers getting scammed, legit businessmen getting ripped off / shaken down, nobody knows who is the "real" company so lawsuits and the like all messed up, everyone gets to pay legal fees either directly or indirectly via higher prices, it would basically suck.
Or to "humanize" the process you could demand words in a dictionary can't be trademarked, which would lead to a world of cruddy brand names like "DBA VLM inc" or something like the ridiculous pharma names, at least until every phoneme combination is used up, which could be worked around by making every trademark a ridiculously long string of Klingon language.
I mean, it sometimes sucks, but is there anything that sucks less, and what would it look like? And thats where the crickets are heard. Well anecdote, special exception, unusual situation, anecdote, anecdote isn't going to do it if you want to apply it to the entire economic system. If you try to blue sky the whole idea and create a new trademark system that works as well as possible for as many as possible, it pretty much ends up as the current system plus or minus some "minor" details about punishment and paperwork and policies.
The totally garbage anti-capitalist copyright system and anti-capitalist patent system give the trademark system cooties by association, although trademarks aren't nearly as bad.
How so? It fits the regex of numerous King games, something like /^.+\s+Saga$/
What I don't understand about the response is if they wanted to be jerks they'd sue Banner Saga guys and "Lego Star Wars: The complete SAGA" also. Or if they wanted to get massive internet karma basically for free they'd license the use of the "banner saga" name to the makers with an extra clause that its only $1 as long as its the last time they ever name something "* Saga". But no they march right down the middle taking neither side.
I don't think anyone involved would be very amused if I changed my HN name to "jaegerpicker saga" and started posting rants about how "I" love american IP law.
Of all the stinky things about IP law, this sort of reputation management / consumer protection system is the least stinky. Oh don't get me wrong, it is in fact stinky, just everything else in that general area is worse.