Of course :p

It's not a big deal.

Of course :p

It sounds like the Activision legal squad is just like “Hmmmm what’s a small game that we can sue so we can get money and media coverage” with no regard to the fact that you have to actually have a case in order to win

lol, yea that sounds accurate.

Bold of the people in here ‘correcting’ the owner of this game and website on his own lawsuit, especially in such a way that looks like they’re rooting against him or couldn’t care if he loses.

Correcting him literally does nothing here, and posting an indifferent attitude towards the situation in this thread shows quite a bit of hubris.

Activision, and the companies it’s purchased, have a history of abusing trademark law to bully out smaller companies that cannot afford the legal fees to defend themselves. That’s what this is: a billion dollar corporation is using its money to ensure it can do what it pleases. To Activision, this is not a matter of ‘how much’ they think they’re right, it’s ‘how much’ money they need to spend to get this over with.

This is from the filing (in case anyone hasn't seen)

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30. On November 20, 2020, Defendant’s counsel sent a “cease and desist”
letter to Activision’s counsel, demanding that Activision “change the name of its
games, stop using Warzone’s WARZONE mark, and abandon the trademark
applications.” Defendant also advised Activision that Defendant “would be within
its rights to seek to enjoin Activision from using the WARZONE mark and to
recover monetary relief as a result of Activision’s infringing use… [including]
Activision’s profits attributable to its use of the WARZONE mark in ‘Call of Duty:
Warzone’ or a reasonable royalty.” Activision disputes these allegations, and
expressed its position in a letter dated February 16, 2021.

31. Activision and Defendant continued to correspond concerning this
dispute in early 2021. However, they were not able to reach an agreement, and on
March 4, 2021, Defendant’s counsel sent a letter to Activision’s counsel, stating
that “Activision’s use of the WARZONE mark has caused actual consumer
Case confusion and damaged [Defendant].” Defendant’s counsel also made a monetary
settlement demand and demanded a response to that demand by March 12, 2021.
On March 24, 2021, Activision made a counterproposal. On April 5, 2021,
Defendant rejected the counterproposal and did not offer to continue the
negotiations.

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Not taking sides, but I don't know why Actvision would lie in a filing, especially since it has the date of the letter, and has the actual contents on the letters in parenthesis

Yeah, anyone who actually read the filing can very easily see this is a cash grab by Fizzer...

Apparently a very successful one judging by the gofundme already breaking 10K. He is within his rights to go after activision, but he's selling it to his fans like they're going after him rather than the other way around.

Activision doesn't even want to shut down Warzone or rename it, they just want him to stop trying to get money from them.

Activision doesn't even want to shut down Warzone or rename it, they just want him to stop trying to get money from them.

They want to trademark "Warzone" despite releasing their warzone 3 years later than this one... why is everyone saying Fizzer made the first move. He only contacted them after they tried to trademark the name of his game.

Yeah, anyone who actually read the filing can very easily see this is a cash grab by Fizzer...

Yes, Fizzer would do a personal cash grab when he is being sued...

I don't know if you are aware, but lawyers are expensive. Activision could literally try and break fizzer's bank doing this. I can't blame him for raising funds.

If im doing a cash grab, the last thing I would want to do is find some way to be sued by another company. Its so much easier just to come up with a random gimmick for everyone to buy, (and not to mention without the risk of losing money).

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Activision has a history of bullying with trademarks and lawsuits

Why would Activision lie?
Its simple, they can gain profit from it. Its basic reason why people lie. They have money for prolonged lawsuits, even if court rejects their case, they can start another one and then another one. Lawyers live from perpetuating bullshit, its the very basic of their profession. Justice has little, if anything, to do with truth and fairness nowadays, especially in USA.

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I don't think you give enough credit to lawyers, although i guess you could argue corporate lawyers fit what you said

Fizzer needs to watch Find Me Guilty to see what a good defense looks like.

I came from the future and 4 years ahead of now the COD game was rebranded as "Hotspot". But nobody cares because no one is playing. Everybody went to the true Warzone in an event called "The Great Influx" just when the legal case news hit the fan.

Quote from Joe Parrish on the gofundme:

Activision had every resource and opportunity to research whether the term 'warzone' was being used by any other games and if that would create discrepancies in customer service. That's what PR and marketing departments are for. In a sense, Warzone already developed the market for its name, as well as channels for user-generated content. Their law suit goes against the practice of free trade and small business. I've been playing Warzone since 2017.

Fizzer, we're on your side. Activision has no right to use your name. I'm glad you're standing up to this nonsense.

we have to fight this like how we play warzone...

cod distributing in greenland and the uk, going for the big bonuses whilemwe go for safe spots in brazil and australia. time will tell how we fare

Warzone 2100 has entered the chat.

And I'm at the center of it all.