STICK IT TO THE MAN MARKUS!!

Glad to see it resolved with both parties happy.

Best not call your grandparents Elders else Bethesda will come storming down your front door Fus Ro Dah style...in fact, I reckon that's how they won the argument.

i was hoping this would end in a quake 3 match. :(

Peace, people, peace. xD

Suing because they named their game "Scrolls" is pretty ridiculous. I hope Capcom starts suing any company with the word "evil" in the title of their game. *rolls eyes*

I would hjave liked younger scrolls to be the title, now THAT would be a reason to sue. ( over hilariousness!)

I would hjave liked younger scrolls to be the title, now THAT would be a reason to sue. ( over hilariousness!)

Perfect. Bethesda avoids mix-up & Mojang keeps title. No damages $.

How about we don't get to trademark a single word like "scrolls"?

I think that pic still sums up pretty well why the lawsuit wasn't entirely baseless- that said it's certainly preferable that they were able to reach an amicable decision that didn't see Mojang paying out the nose.

Not necessarily saying that Bethesda was right to sue, but I certainly see why they were concerned- the pic still looks an awful lot like a TES loading screen to me (even though the character art isn't a direct fit).

Then again it also looks like a Magic The Gathering card and it's 'color text' (the Scrolls lore); so there's plenty of room to suggest that it's not anything of Beth's that's being 'copied' or closely mirrored- instead those are tropes/themes from Fantasy as a whole.

wow talk about a hard place and a rock both parties kick ass.. so they should deal with it with a video game duel like real gamers!!!!!

Notch is a hero to all developers.

Who has ever heard Skyrim referred to as an Elder Scrolls game anyway? No one cares about that.

I'm beginning to lose respect for Bethesda; this has been two lawsuits within a year they caused; I think they starting to get a big head

nice to see a lawsuit where both parties come away pleased. Obviosly no lawyers were involved in this.

This is just dumb. I guess we can't have shooters with "War", RPGs with "Fantasy", etc. Protecting your trademarked name is one thing, this was just too much.

Nice that it ended amicalblly. Two things though:1) Why does'nt Bethesda think that gamers are smart enough to tell the differnce 2) They should have settled this like men, mano a mano on the field of battle in Quake 3

I'm glad this didn't blow up into a huge debacle. That said, I'm tired of everyone bashing Bethesda simply because of a black-and-white viewpoint that lawsuit=evil. I'm not defending this particular suit (I agree with Phil that it was a bit frivolous). However, I will defend Bethesda's right to protect their intellectual property, which is what this boils down to. They weren't trying to get money from Mojang. This was business, pure and simple. They have to guard their IP. If Mojang's Scrolls were to grow into something huge, that might have the potential to create confusion with the Elder Scrolls (not among hardcore gamers, probably, but among casual and non-gamers, possibly). Even though this particular suit may have seemed frivolous, from a business standpoint it's just playing it safe. Also, to address anyone flipping out over Bethesda's trademark of a single word, just because Bethesda holds the trademark to "Scrolls" doesn't mean they control and have purview over any instance of the word. The trademark is highly context-based. PS. I love both Bethesda and Mojang; this is just my attempt at a non-biased business-oriented opinion. PPS. By the way, really, Notch? Scrolls? I don't see how anyone can think he didn't realize he could run into trouble by using that name.

I guess the result is all we could really ask for.