welcome to watch mojo and today we'll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
video games that led to
huge lawsuits
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we have prepared joy con color
variations neon blue
and neon red for this list we're looking
at giant lawsuits caused by video games
or levied against video game companies
which one would have you calling a
lawyer
number 10 unreleased fallout mmo
roughly a decade before the release of
the monstrous game that would become
fallout 76
interplay the creators and original
owners of the fallout ip
began building a fallout mmo of its own
dubbed
project v13 not much is known about the
game only that bethesda wasn't happy
with the progress
it was making interplay had a set
deadline for when the game was supposed
to enter full development
which the company led expire and
bethesda took them to court
the resulting lawsuit settled in 2012
made it clear that bethesda was now the
sole
owner of fallout and had the rights to
eventually make a fallout online of
their own
number nine donkey kong
way back in 1981 donkey kong made his
first video game appearance
and universal was insistent that the
existence of donkey kong was infringing
on their copyright over the character of
king kong
cinema's most iconic gorilla however
people have been arguing about who owns
king kong since the 1930s
five decades on and little had changed
it wasn't clear whether universal
studios which also tried to sue rko
distributor of the 1933 movie had a leg
to stand
on ultimately the courts ruled that king
kong was in the public domain once again
so nintendo was free to continue making
donkey kong games
number eight pac-man and kc munchkin
even in the early days of gaming video
game companies were still pretty
litigious
and atari was no exception when they
believed phillips electronics and
magnavox
were trying to release a clear pacman
knockoff hard at work on its own port of
the arcade classic for the 2600 atari
wasn't happy about casey munchkin
showing up on rival consoles
featuring a small character with a large
mouth roaming around a maze eating
pellets
and avoiding monsters the similarities
were clear
and the course agreed ruling in favor of
atari
but then after all that the 2600 pac-man
port turned out to be complete
garbage
number 7 lineage 2.
in 2010 south korean game developer nc
soft found itself in hot water when one
player brought a lawsuit against lineage
2
for being quote too addictive they
claimed to the courts that his total
20 000 hours in the game had destroyed
his life
saying the fact that it didn't have a
warning on it was negligence on ncsoft's
part
it wasn't the only time people tried to
take lineage 2 to court either
in 2013 a 64 year old woman tried to sue
the company
for the fact that while trying to
enchant an incredibly rare sword
supposedly worth 28 thousand dollars in
real life
the sword broke she said ncsoft was
liable because she'd done it by accident
which lawyers proved was a lie
number six joy-con drift so intuitive
controls using movement or tilt
are possible though the switch has been
a wildly successful console
one issue has plagued nintendo ever
since its release
joy-con drift after a fair amount of use
the joy-cons on the launch switch
improved switch the switch light and the
pro controllers begin to drift
meaning the sticks don't read your
inputs properly and the controls
simply won't work numerous lawsuits have
been brought against nintendo for both
failing to fix the problem
and repeatedly denying that joycon drift
even exists
in 2020 news broke that a 10 year old
boy and his mom were even suing the
company
these lawsuits are still ongoing so it's
not clear whether they'll be successful
it invites everyone to a new world of
entertainment
number five world of warcraft go
forth to victory
one particularly notorious private
server in world of warcraft caught
blizzard's attention
and in 2009 the company filed a lawsuit
against the server's owner
but alison reeves the person behind the
scapegaming server that allowed people
to play wow without interference from
blizzard
apparently wasn't too phased by the suit
when her court date came
they did not appear nor did they even
acknowledge the case brought against
them
maybe they knew that they couldn't win
against blizzard regardless but because
they were a no-show blizzard was given a
default judgment and reeves was ordered
to pay damages to the tune
of 88 million dollars number 4
pong
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the first ever video game console was
the magnavox odyssey
invented by ralph baer and bayer had a
vision
table tennis but digital he was so
excited about bringing ping pong to the
odyssey that he showed off a game
concept to atari's founders
and just a few months later atari came
out with pong arcade cabinets
but bayer was so insistent that atari
had ripped off his own idea of a virtual
tennis game
that he filed the lawsuit a few years
later and the case was settled
but had bayer taking it all the way to
trial it's likely that atari wouldn't
have survived
who knows what the game industry would
be like if atari had gone bust in the
70s
number three fortnite
since going free to play fortnite has
maintained its position as one of the
biggest games in the world
but epic still wasn't happy and
implemented a way to buy v bucks from
them directly
completely circumventing the app store
and apple's 30
cut on microtransactions apple removed
fortnite in retaliation
leading to epic filing a lawsuit against
both apple and google
which had also removed fortnite counter
suits were filed against epic by apple
for breach of contract
and by september 2020 a judge ruled in
favor of apple
after all practically every retailer
takes a 30
cut on sales with a trial set for may
2021
only time will tell whether these suits
will be good for players
but if you want to download it now for
the first time and start playing
you'll need to go directly through epic
games number two
cyberpunk 2077. got another blackout in
santo domingo
netrunners are at it again poking holes
in the power grid
cd projekt red once the most lauded
developer in the games industry
is facing multiple lawsuits from both
consumers and investors over cyberpunk's
infamously poor performance on last gen
consoles
the company's investors and shareholders
are disappointed by cdpr shares falling
in the wake of cyberpunk's release
while consumers want to see cdpr held to
account for false advertising by
constantly claiming the game was going
to be optimized for the ps4
and xbox one s the fact that refunds
were issued without question
and the game was removed from the ps
store speaks volumes to how poorly it
performed on older hardware
hardware that runs other intense games
like red dead redemption 2
with relative ease i need some rest i
haven't slept in three days
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few dishonorable mentions
the simpsons road rage this game was
much too similar to crazy taxi for
sega's liking
i promise i'll try my best not to throw
up the what now
grand theft auto san andreas rockstar
was in trouble when a modder released
the inappropriate
hot coffee mini game you want coffee
baby
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new super mario brothers wii james burt
would be fined 1.3 million for uploading
an early copy of this game
unlicensed nes games atari was sued by
nintendo for trying to release
unauthorized games
in the 90s
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number one to human we of the world
tree shall not interfere
the way
well as fortnite epic games is also the
creator of the unreal engine
one of the most widely used game engines
in the business but you don't just get
to pick up unreal engine
and make a game you've got to pay a
licensing fee which studio silicon
knights didn't do
after struggling to license the engine
to make two human silicon knights
decided to make their own game engine
epic later found out that enormous parts
of this quote new engine
were actually lifted straight from
unreal 3. epic took silicon knights to
court and ended up winning
but the 9 million dollars in damages was
small fry compared to the developers
being ordered to destroy
all unsold copies of the game
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