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I saw this game in 2 ads the last few days. I honestly thought this was legit, and so did most of the people that interacted with the ads (at facebook at least where we can see comments) – it was a localized ad so they were all from Brazil, and most of 90's 00's kids (so people around 20 and 30 yo now) here grew with Pokemon, Digimon, Medabots and Beyblade, so yeah they knew who they were targeting. I guess they either got some popularity because maybe the game is ok/fun to play or they just pulled out the massive paid publicity.
The whole 'I didn't know about the original franchise/game' is a complete BS. The only reason for the original franchise having 'meda' on the name was the fact that they 'powered' the robots with the 'medals'. You can't say you magically pulled of a almost exact copy of the robot concept AND got the idea of using 'MEDA' on the name out of nowhere. C'mon. Any actual serious company will research the title of the product beforehand, not only to know if there are already products with the same/similar name, but also to make sure you aren't releasing a product with a name that is already associated with 'bad things' within the market
You did the thing 😀
good video. i'm very glad you relied on @crait's thread because he's been on the pulse of this. i would advise you either get in touch with him or check his twitter because i think he's continued to stay up to date with this stuff so would be able to fill in everything that's happened post-oct 2021.
only thing i'd say as a first time watcher is that you noted that you were being careful about not stating your opinion, but i think you should be careful when reading things word-for-word – maybe practice narrating or scripting them beforehand instead. there's some mistakes that i kept hearing when i was listening to it – just small errors but you can see how they totally flip the story, especially when they add up.
one example being you kept misreading "alicante commercial court" as "alliance commercial court". the court is important because the whole scam originated from the fact that the TM was applied for specifically through a localized court (alicante in spain) which i think is part of why imagineer never responded and unfortunately let the TM lapse. another is at 12:31, crait's tweet says "not understanding TM/IP law are NOT the same thing" and you read it as "not understanding TM/IP WEREthe same thing." i apologize for sounding so nitpicky but hope you understand where i'm coming from.
Hey, Ed! I don't if you're aware already (you probably are), but I just saw that a Brazilian mon game project is on the works. Not much indo besides the poster. It's called Bágdex.
There is a dex app too, with the monsters and their inspiration. It's really good.
Also, sorry it's not related to the video.
Down with the scammers!!!
10:36 On using bought assets, (obviously don't pretend they're your own) there are interesting ways to use them. Overall quality and theme between ingame assets should match. There are ways to abuse the fact that they don't though if you want to go for a very hand picked, creepy pasta sort of feel. Imagine the different 'art styles' of madoka magica and the contrast that has with the regular animation. This is obviously a best case scenario, but a cool edge case at that. (I know this is slightly off topic, but I think it's neat)
Anything to do with crypto & NFTs is just nothing but scams. I don't trust anything that pushes them.
So… the EU is to stupid to realize that an older company that has multiple established products using this trademark almost 30 years prior… is the actual rights holder….
Seems like the official site of the scam game is still advertising NFTs tho. >.<;
God, I wish there were actual Medabots mobile games or anything from their official creators… Not from some a-hole that made an NFT game. >=(
As someone who grew up watching Medabots back in the day, I have always wondered why the Medarot games stopped being translated and brought to the U.S under the Medabots name. I hope that once this is worked out we can start getting games again!
Man, that's crazy. Can't believe this is the first I'm hearing about this.
This whole sitation reminds me of the south park episode about the football team
about time more people started talking about the copyright/trademark situation
Trade Mark is something you have to actively defend and sue everything remotely close to your product or name, i.e. look at some apple lawsuits, where they are sueing Aunt Janines Apple Bakery because it has the name apple in it, it's a BAKERY not even remotely close to selling Mobile Phones, but that's just Apples aggressive defense of their Trademark.
Of course it's a crypto bro ruining things for people
and people wonder why nintendo shuts down fan projects so often.
I once almost got involved in a fan project where the organizer lied to all of us and said he TOTALLY had the legal rights to make this revival game. Said he represented the studio and wanted to hire us all. As it went on (a few days into talks) it was clear he was just some over-ambitious fan who didn’t understand basic copyright and trademark laws. Bullet dodged.
I love the different robots games
I hope the Medabots developers crush the disgusting person who registered Medabots in the EU, if there's a gofund me I'd donate to that. They need to be named and shamed. Disgraceful.
A pose is when the arms aren't perfectly horizontal
So I'll also say, games in English + original language, is always going to be a smart move, sure, many countries where we speak English we don't speak other languages, but that isn't the case in other countries, many times if your native language isn't English, you'll learn English as well. It's the international language.
Of course an NFT bro is the one behind this. All they know how to do is steal and scam.
Im honestly shocked you didnt' know anything about this, Ed. though im glad you made a video about it.
Personally i think medabots might fit more into a bit of a looter genre, you defeat enemies to loot them for a part
Also, if they're trying to renew the copyrights in EU, does that mean we can finally look forward to new medabots stuff?
I’m a Metabot fan. The show first appeared to me on Fox Kids Saturday morning cartoons, then it got moved to YTV and was either a Saturday morning cartoon or was part of the pre show for Bionix the Friday night anime slot. I only ever remember watching the first season on TV and had to search the internet for the rest. Those were the good days, lol.
I was just directed to your video from a mutual of mine that also has been keeping up on new developments of the project, and boy oh boy does the Medarot/Medabots Community here Stateside have some developments for you! It was largely thanks to crait's thread that curbed a LOT of Kevin's attempts to reach out or establish any lasting business partners, and their crypto coin has done nothing but fall in value and now currently is not even worth 2 cents at last count. They also tried to make a whole new SECOND coin to try and step away from the pushback that came with their first coin, which also naturally (and fully expected) failed in a glorious dumpster fire.
In further good news, currently Imagineer is winning the EU case, and it looks like this nightmare might hopefully be over soon once a final ruling has been declared. We as the Western Medarot/Medabots community, and our friends on the Eastern side of the globe, have been fighting hard to bring Medarot back to the West so we can enjoy it collectively together! From one Medarotter to another, many thanks for taking the time to even cover the issue and talk about it. If you ever decide to cover Medabots again in the future, whether it be the TM issue or even the series as a whole, I'm planning to do a segment on my channel talking about the History of the series, since it just this November celebrated 25 years of customizable fighting robots, and would love to have you with me to talk about it!
Thanks for explaining all of this.
It has gotten worse over time
Heya! Lots has happened since that thread! Some highlights: Kevin lost in the EU, then appealed, he defrauded investors by removing one crypto token in the game and replaced it with another after promising he wouldn't, then he removed the second token, he pulled money from the chart, he blacklisted many people from trading, and he failed to pay many many of his employees. If you send me a DM, I can fill you in with a huge update I typed out. Kevin Comadran should be in jail.