Persona designer Atlus remains in the procedure of taking legal action against a follower that unofficially reanimated the Shin Megami Tensei MMO with making use of exclusive web servers.
As found by @MarshSMT (opens up in brand-new tab) on Twitter, Atlus is demanding copyright violation after a follower (operating as Rekuiemu Games) held their very own web servers on the MMORPG Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine – which was closed down in 2016. As described in the court documents (opens up in brand-new tab): “In blatant violation of U.S. copyright law, Defendants—by their own admission and without any authorization—have decided to “reanimate” the Imagine Game” which is thought to have actually begun around August – December 2020.
The file proceeds: “They have done this by creating and operating an exact copy of the original website used by Atlus to distribute the Imagine Game”, “creating and distributing an exact or nearly exact copy of the Imagine Game which users can download from the Infringing Website”, and also “creating and distributing an unauthorized web server [..] that emulates the original game server used by Atlus and that enables users to publicly display and play the Infringing Game online with other players.”
According to the records, the suit was initially submitted back in December 2021 yet has actually consistently been upgraded right approximately today, September 26, 2022. If the suit succeeds, Atlus is requesting for the web site to be closed down and also for the gamer running the web server to compensate to $25,000 per infraction in problems, as disclosed in the court records. This results from the offenders’ activities supposedly triggering – “and will continue to cause” – “irreparable damage to Atlus unless restrained by this court.”
If you really did not recognize, Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine initially released back in 2007 and also saw gamers wander around a post-apocalyptic Tokyo as they take control of a ‘Demon Buster’ whilst checking out various places, handling missions, updating things and also tools, and also all of the others points you can normally perform in an MMORPG.
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Source: gamesradar.com
