Battle of Britain: 70 years!

MOH_Hirth · #1 09-01-2009, 03:41 PM

Battle of Britain: 70 years!

Is near... can you think in a best day to start SOW sells? I am imaging a TV video showing the new simulator, Oleg giving interviews, "the new king of pop!", will be a great day!

#2 09-01-2009, 03:51 PM

Yes, Oleg has said he 'hopes' to release for the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Britian. Although its fair to say there is no indication that SOW is anywhere near completion at this point.

Bobb4 · #3 09-01-2009, 04:59 PM

Oh Tree, tree, tree, don't dishearten the new guys so...
Ironically there is a book out called storm of war, literally full of wonderful stuff about the start of the war.
Did you know that Chamberlain had to be basically ordered to declare war by parliament. Even after the promise to the Poles he still wanted a way out.
As I was saying, interesting book with a lot of subjective opinion but still it looks like a good read.
Which brings me to the point of the name Storm of war being copyright and whatever Oleg plans to call BoB my guess is it will not be Storm of war.
Not sure how video games and book copyright works, but I am guessing someone left the barn door open on this one? Seriously doubt you can name a computer game after a book, especially a book written before you released your game?
Just spit-balling have no real clue how copyright interconnectivity works.
Hopefully a healthy debate can enlighten me

#4 09-01-2009, 05:17 PM

I agree Bobb, also Ubisoft (www.stormofwar.com) own some of the domain names for Storm of War, although others have become available after they expired, we now know that Ubi are no longer involved in this project so a name change will be most likely. I found this old Ubi press release they announce a November 2006 release date but hadn't realised that Oleg had not even started the project

http://www.ubi.com/US/News/Info.aspx?nId=3950

Bobb4 · #5 09-02-2009, 11:24 AM

Storm of War © 2006 1C Company. All Rights Reserved. Developed by 1C:Maddox Games. Published and distributed by Ubisoft Entertainment. Storm of War, Ubisoft, Ubi.com, and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in US and/or other countries. Pacific Fighters© 2004 1C Company. All Rights Reserved. Developed by 1C:Maddox Games and Ilya Shevchenko.
Actually looking at this it looks like 1C had copyright of the name Storm of War and Ubisoft never ever did. Considering this is an official Ubisoft press release...