Will Valve sue Blizzard Entertainment about Overwatch?

[Kevin the Inkling]

Just curious on the matter. For those of you not aware. Blizzard the company behind World of Warcraft cancled their "Project Titan" New MMO then scraped it infavor of "Overwatch" Which looks so much much like an Team Fortress 2 clone I'd be willing to put money on it being a blantant copy paste of it.

[snh]

You might want to post in the off topic section, unless you've forgot to mention your idea/suggestion?

I very much doubt anything will become of this. The game is very much unlike Team Fortess 2 and I see no reason Valve would flinch about this.

[Kevin the Inkling]

I suggest a Lawsuit. Better Snh?

Actually it's almost excactly like TF2. All the characters from Overwatch are directly compared to TF2's character. By Blizzard itself.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Not likely as the two are still diffrent enough that they can't be confused with eachother. Otherwise TF2 could be sued by the makers of Unreal Tournament or even older arena FPS type games with capture the flag and such.

Just becaue a game has become popular does mean they own the rights to every aspect of the game. They own the code and the art, but the rest is typicaly in the public domain.

[Cathulhu]

TF2 isn't really innovative, that concept precedes TF2 by about a decade. Valve only executed it well. They don't own the concept of team based competitive shooters.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by Yarri:

Which looks so much much like an Team Fortress 2 clone I'd be willing to put money on it being a blantant copy paste of it.

And Battlefield looks so much like Call of Duty.... unless there use art assets, there is nothing they can do about it.

[Unexpected]

one time in china some company literally made a secondhand TF2, worse than some overwatch game

[僕の名前 (仮)]

Why should they sue and why do you even care?

[Unexpected]

Originally posted by WireframeGuy:

Why should they sue and why do you even care?

because video game drama sells

[Uncouth Ruffian]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

TF2 isn't really innovative, that concept precedes TF2 by about a decade. Valve only executed it well. They don't own the concept of team based competitive shooters.

they innovated in game economies

[mong]

Well, since the first Dota mod was made from Warcraft III, we can safely assume that nothing's going to happen.

[mong]

Originally posted by Dusteer:

Probably not.

Originally posted by Mr. Fooster R.I.P.KITTY0706:

Well, since the first Dota mod was made from World of Warcraft, we can safely assume that nothing's going to happen.

Since when was dota a mod for world of warcraft? It was a mod for warcraft 3.... a rts...

IT WAS STLL A WARCRAFT GAME
I GOT IT MIXED UP

[Coconut Cream]

I have little problem with more team-based shooters, it would be a shame if TF2 lost popularity to it.

[Kevin the Inkling]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Not likely as the two are still diffrent enough that they can't be confused with eachother. Otherwise TF2 could be sued by the makers of Unreal Tournament or even older arena FPS type games with capture the flag and such.

Just becaue a game has become popular does mean they own the rights to every aspect of the game. They own the code and the art, but the rest is typicaly in the public domain.

Capture the flag isn't what I mean. I mean character classes that have literally identical abilities sets that function the exact same way.

I've seen Unreal tourny matches. And other arena shooters. However the battles and the gameplay look drasticly different. The abilities's the functionality. Watch gameplay of Overwatch with Team Fortress 2 as a side by side comparison. It's a copy paste.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by Yarri:

Capture the flag isn't what I mean. I mean character classes that have literally identical abilities sets that function the exact same way.

I've seen Unreal tourny matches. And other arena shooters. However the battles and the gameplay look drasticly different. The abilities's the functionality. Watch gameplay of Overwatch with Team Fortress 2 as a side by side comparison. It's a copy paste.

The ability to go invisible, a bow on an archer, someone who can run up walls, a sniper ect. all exist in other games as well.

I've seen the trailer of Overwatch and I play TF2. What similarities there are, are not nearly enough to sue someone over. Valve doesn not own the abilities, they do not own the concept. They only own the code and artwork. Unless code was taken from TF2, models or artwork, there is no grounds for a lawsuit.

There were many other games that existed before TF and TF2 that had similar concept as well. If anyone did have the right, it would be one of them long before it would be Valve.

The only reason people are comaring it to TF2 is because TF2 is very popular and many are not familiar with similar games that were previous made.

[The Space Butterfly]

No.