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[Oz Gaming]

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[gallagher4005]

I just saw that in Sydney, Montana.
The one I saw changed to a BNSF loco after it passed.

[Dark & Realistic™ Nessie]

They didn't use exactly BNSF, but they only swapped some characters, and it remained too close to the real brand. That's why they probably had to change it completely, just like they did to fuel companies.

[MLH82]

GARC railroads is a new company which most likely comes with the Texas DLC. There's also a chance its an addition to the game instead of a replacement.

[zm4r]

Obviously, it's being worked on and I'll keep that in mind for now.

[meatballs_21]

BNSF was famously absent from Train Sim World for years due to concerns with licensing outside the US and Canada. That’s since changed and they’re in the game now (they were present in Run8 from the very beginning)

I’ve read numerous discussions and seen it mentioned that model train makers often don’t have licences, either, but operated in good faith (ie: their models didn’t negatively depict the roads in question) but even that didn’t stop UP trying to sue a few makers once.

Given SCS’ previous comments about genericized trucks making the real manufacturers angry, and the changes to the service stations, maybe the fake BNSF stuff had to go from ATS? Or maybe this is a new railway operator for the game?

[Dark & Realistic™ Nessie]

Originally posted by meatballs_21:

Given SCS’ previous comments about genericized trucks making the real manufacturers angry, and the changes to the service stations, maybe the fake BNSF stuff had to go from ATS? Or maybe this is a new railway operator for the game?

That was my guess at first, as I personally haven't seen this new loco in game yet.

And I remember when they changed the trains in game from movers to AI vehicles, they changed the BNSF logo parody into the USA flag, but the rest of loco kept the same color schema. Maybe we'll only know what really happened when Texas / version 1.46 is released.

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by meatballs_21:

Given SCS’ previous comments about genericized trucks making the real manufacturers angry[...]

To add to this: Here is pretty much the confirmation:
https://forum.scssoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=247467
Important is that Natvander, a SCS dev, commented asking if this should be stickied thus indirectly confirming that this was a real possibility too at SCS.

[Cydonian Mystery]

Bit unrelated, but this makes me wonder if Wallbert and Global Mills will eventually be rebranded? Those two are so obviously close to Walmart and General Mills that it would obviously put SCS in danger of litigation.

[Dark & Realistic™ Nessie]

Originally posted by Cydonian Mystery:

Bit unrelated, but this makes me wonder if Wallbert and Global Mills will eventually be rebranded? Those two are so obviously close to Walmart and General Mills that it would obviously put SCS in danger of litigation.

I was actually thinking about that after I closed this window.

I don't think they would touch Wallbert because the similarities to the real brand are very low, both logo and name. There are other games that made far more obvious Walmart parodies, like Malmart in Cities In Motion and Cities Skyline.

The Global Mills is far more obvious from the ones you mentioned. I'd also include Charged here, although name and color scheme isn't obvious, the façade of stores is the same shape of Best Buy. And also include Kaarfor from ETS2, which both name and colors are an obvious parody of Carrefour.

[MirkoC407]

Originally posted by FelipeVinhao:

And also include Kaarfor from ETS2, which both name and colors are an obvious parody of Carrefour.

The prototype of getting too close to the original in ETS2 is game Aria and real Arla...

[Dark & Realistic™ Nessie]

Originally posted by MirkoC407:

Originally posted by FelipeVinhao:

And also include Kaarfor from ETS2, which both name and colors are an obvious parody of Carrefour.

The prototype of getting too close to the original in ETS2 is game Aria and real Arla...

And I now remember another very close one: IKA.