About legal problems of showing in-game real aircraft...

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Originally Posted by Kupsised

It was interesting to see what Jaws posted there though. I never saw that as I got pacific fighters through a fully merged 1946 so never saw the box art. Someone really dropped the ball there...

Interestingly, both Oleg and Luthier have said at different times that Grumman initiated their legal action before Pacific Fighters was ready for release. That would mean that the foolishly applied text on the box art would not have been seen at the time that NG let loose their lawyers.

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Originally Posted by speculum jockey

What's even more outrageous is that from WWII to the present day all of these US military aircraft have been 100% taxpayer funded. The depiction of them being ground for NG, Lockheed, or GE getting money is ludicrous! If anyone should be getting that "fee" it should be the US taxpayers. There's a reason why GM, Ford, Porsche, etc, get to charge for games to use their products. Because they footed the bill to make them! Hell, a lot of companies push their products to be in films (see any Michael Bay movie) to get free advertising. Seeing how large the gaming market is (bigger than the movie industry) you'd think they'd be thrilled to have their products featured in a game.

Then again, the companies that cater to the US military are among the greediest most corrupt companies out there, and have no qualms with wasting billions of dollars of other people's money, or trying to squeeze a few extra dimes out of some little operation.

that's why their paying there taxpayer loans back fast, so we can't use the taxpayer owend products. lol