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Originally Posted by Eckstein 4 Prez
I'm just going to chime in here because I also did so when the issue with Japan came up during OOTP23. I am a lawyer, and while intellectual property is not my area I do know a bit. When I learned that OOTP23 both included (many!) leagues for which it had no license and had in its marketing the selling point that you could play in all these different world leagues, I was a little shocked.
This isn't even my area and it would be incredibly easy for me to put together a theory of the case where damages would run well into the hundreds of thousands if not millions (depending on OOTP's sales figures), and they would have basically no defense available. This is still true, by the way - if I were in-house counsel for the corporate parent, I would be sweating bullets until the statute of limitations for a lawsuit over OOTP23 was reached. It seems like they may have gone too far the other way now by taking out even the fictional templates for the game. That's unfortunate (and possibly unnecessary), but I can understand the fear. After what was done with OOTP23, the lawyers are going to be telling everyone they need to be on their best behavior as they hope no lawsuits come in.
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This may very well be true...but do you think people (customers) actually care? I don't. Some might...but for the most part...people are going to look for what they can get for their money...and in a business like this, you can't go backwards. That's unfortunately what is happening here...OOTP is going in reverse in some aspects. Customers also aren't going to just wait around for 2-3 years while this all gets sorted out. I am not even sure they will wait a year at this point. We live in an instant gratification society...so while I can sympathize with the developers to a point (Com2Us was probably a bad decision) it doesn't mean the majority of customers are just going to say all is forgiven, and we will wait as long as it takes until things are sorted out.