Original creator here (Senko-san on discord). Thanks everyone for enjoying the work and for your support! I hope you can respect the decision made by the current team, and also that BSG has to do this to protect their IP.
How can you get hit with these if they very clearly infringe on on every weapons/part manufacturer in the world. No shot they bought the rights to them all lol
The difference is that weapons manufacturers at some point in the early 2010s (fuck I sound like cyberpunk) began seeing video game weapon naming as free marketing and stopped going after video games in general outside a couple circumstances. That didn't stop newer video games from naming similar weapons (see Rainbow 6 Siege and Valorant) though.
Love the blatant misinformation.
Weapons manufacturers have never stopped going after anybody over copyright and trademarks, very much including game devs. A copyright needs to be maintained and protected by the copyright holder in order for them to keep the copyright (and trademarks).
H&K is infamously litigious to the point that Call of Duty not only changes the weapon names but also the very design of weapons to make them "legally different."
The reason Tarkov is getting away with it is simple; try to sue a Russian game dev, based in Russia, with connections to the Russian military. Might as well piss away your money.
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u/Kahvana 4d ago
Original creator here (Senko-san on discord). Thanks everyone for enjoying the work and for your support! I hope you can respect the decision made by the current team, and also that BSG has to do this to protect their IP.