I remember this game, but didn’t know it had been out for a while, thought it was still supposed to come out.
It was in early access for a bit I think. Steam says release date is 14th December 2021, so basically yesterday it released the final 1.0
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btw didn’t know Bethesda was also this cringe
This is like 343/MS striking Amplitude/Sega for using the name “Endless Dungeon”.
Basically, Amplitude has an entire slate of games and universe planned around their “Endless” name too.
Hope neither Bethesda nor MS pull weird shit like this moving forward.
There is no big publisher in this industry who isn’t.
lol but again, that’s a very easy copout. I’m just expecting better from these publishers, especially from Bethesda now under MS. They can’t pull the kind of bullshit they were doing in the past few years prior to acquisition anymore.
Just hilarious that Bethesda forced the Prey name onto a game that clearly Arkane themselves were reluctant to use for it, but also had the audacity to strike a small indie game because they had that generic english word in their title that coincided with their own game, which ended up not really selling that great anyway, as if this indie game would confuse people which game was which lmao.
Its not ‘cringe’. Its a ridiculous but necessary step because of trademark laws.
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So Bethesda will do separate Events going forward ? so this tell me Bethesda will have it’s own E3 in 2022 we will probably get short trailer on Xbox E3 show and deep dive on Bethesda E3 Show
trademark laws lobbied for by corporations themselves.
I see literally zero good reason why Bethesda or any other company needs to protect against generic english words being in another game title as part of a sentence, couldn’t be less sympathetic, sorry. It’s not like the indie game was called just “Prey”, or somebody was using “Halo” or whatever. Otherwise Sega should be able to strike Microsoft for using “The Endless”, Take Two striking Hazelight for “It Takes Two”, or MS striking Sony for using “Horizon” or whatever slippery slope we can go down.
Considering Todd is probably going to talk about Starfield for an hour they will most likely do a separate event next year.
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In my opinion, probably not. It seems like XGS doesn’t have a ton of big titles hitting next year, and to me it doesn’t make too much sense to not market your biggest title next year at your main marketing event.
Even if Todd wants 30 mins to demonstrate the game, Xbox can easily fit that in a 1hr 30 mins show considering E3 2020 was an hour as well.
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If you say such stuff you have to provide a source that Xbox or Bethesda lobbied for these laws. Otherwise its cringe.
It only matters if lawyers see these reasons 
lol is this yet another Xbox game case?! I do love the black and white though. There’s 3 different versions now…
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I do love the Black and white but there is too much going on in these game cases .
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“add-on content download code inside - no disc included” 
what a waste of plastic packaging.
It’s just a card, not a normal case.
That was a general point not specifically about MS or Bethesda because you made a general point about how it is a necessary consequence of trademark laws that these corporations were somehow themselves victim to.
The Zenimax board of directors was dissolved and they were the ones calling the shots, expecially for this kind of shitty things, so I expect not.
I don’t see the need, usually BE3 conferences are way to diluted because they have not enough content for a 90m show, they have 1-2-3 (at the very best) games to show each year, in addition to the usual MMOs support, keeping them together with Xbox would also save us the cringe mobile moments (during a MS conference they’d show a 10s spot at most, like when they did for Gears Pop).
Also the 30m Todd Howard moment is not needed, 10m are more than enough, people lose interest very fast.
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Amazon Germany says code in a box, lol.
If you understand all of that, why do you expect them to stop their lawyers in the future? They want to keep their trademarks, so this will continue to happen.
Pain.
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