Lawyers from Lucasfilm have shut down Apeiron, a fan remake of BioWare’s 2003 RPG Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic (one of many best PC games, in line with us). It’s little shock that The Suits have stamped this out, although in fact it’s a bummer – and doubly so as a result of Poem Studios put three years of hope and work into Apeiron earlier than it caught the The Suits’ merciless eye. The Suits even need them to destroy all their work. Our Alec appeared hopeful (effectively, by his requirements) and known as Apeiron “extremely pretty” back in 2016, however so it goes.
Apeiron was to be a remake of KOTOR inside Unreal Engine 4, updating it to fashionable shiny-o-vision with all-new artwork property whereas additionally including new worlds, missions, and such. It can be free, however require gamers to have a replica of KOTOR so it may use the unique sound and music.
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Poem Studios known as Apeiron “a full-conversion mod” relatively than a remake however that distinction turned out to not matter. This isn’t Electronic Arts stepping in objecting to Poem remaking their game, it’s the Starlords at Lucasfilm taking situation with their “unlicensed use of Lucasfilm intellectual property”.
Poem shared the letter they received. In it, a Lucasfilm lawyer says that “Lucasfilm does not permit its names, characters, logos, copyrights, and/or trademarks without authorization” and Apeiron utilizing Star Wars mental property “is misleading to the public and is likely to create confusion as to whether it is affiliated with Lucasfilm”. So they need ’em to knock it off.
The letter advised Poem to “cease all development” and, greater than that, “destroy all codes and materials related to that project.” Three years of labor, simply deleted. The letter doesn’t include a agency authorized menace of what they’ll do if Poem don’t comply however, y’know, that’s what would observe.
“After a few days, I’ve exhausted my options to keep it afloat; we knew this day was a possibility,” Poem Studios mentioned. “I’m sorry and may the Force be with you.”
Every time followers announce they’re remake one thing owned by an enormous media firm, my coronary heart sinks in anticipation of this end result.
