SE_JonF
September 27, 2017, 3:37am
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ToxinGaming:
I understand your last sentence, and I am playing by their rules. Their rule in line item 4 in their review checklist says “Title does not contain any of the following: Epic, Unreal, Paragon, Fortnite”. My title is “FPS Battle Royale Template”. When they expand rules to cover other things without informing us, how can they impose them on us and expect us to not complain?
I’m just trying to understand the sudden change in acceptance of my title. Without context, it looks like they released Fornite: Battle Royale and are now imposing a new rule without textual update due to possible competition that my template may cause to their IP because of the name of my template. How is that going to look to other developers? Are they going to rethink about using UE because at any point, Epic can release a game and force them to change their name due to IP conflicts, especially when naming is an important part of marketing? Who is going to understand that my product is a Battle Royale type game template without Battle Royale in the name? “Last Man Standing”, to me, is too long of a descriptor and doesn’t come with the concept of looting items that Battle Royale comes with. “BR”, if I can even use that since it stands for Battle Royale, is not known by every single person to mean Battle Royale and will put two acronyms next to each other in the title which doesn’t fit right to me.
I understand that forcing a name change makes sense when the title makes no sense, doesn’t describe the product enough, or is trademarked / IP-owned by someone else. But forcing a name change that accurately describes my product just because they so happened to release Fortnite: Battle Royale is upsetting, even if they have the right to do so.
Again, this is only as it pertains to the marketplace. You can still use that name elsewhere on Gumroad, CGTrader, Cubebrush, etc. I’m not saying you shouldn’t complain, nor am I defending Epic here for forcing you to rename. Simply saying that by using the marketplace of a private company such as Epic you agree to abide by their rules, provided you are using their marketplace. Elsewhere, you aren’t required to rename your project.