Magic To Master Legal Saga Continues As Laniatus States It Filed Counterclaim Against Gameforge
If you've been following the saga between Kickstarter MMO Magic to Master and MMO publisher Gameforge, it just took another turn. Laniatus, the team behind the Kickstarter has announced they've initiated legal actions against Gameforge to fight back against the DMCA takedown taken against the Kickstarter earlier this month.
In a post on the Laniatus website (as well as the Magic to Master Discord server), the company stated that it took immediate «legal action to protect» its corporate «identity.»
A quick recap, if you need:
Earlier this month, Magic to Master got on many MMO players' radars not because of the quality of their MMO or Kickstarter campaign, but rather its use of false and misleading «testimonial reviews» attributed to outlets like ours, MassivelyOP, and others. None of these outlets actually wrote those «testimonial reviews,» which were pulled once the news stories started filing in about them. The company maintains these were a test, a «placeholder» for a feature on the Kickstarter that should never have gone live (though even a month later I wonder if they'd still be there if none of us had noticed).
MMO Youtuber Callum Upton created a video talking about the Kickstarter itself (and not actually any of the drama surrounding it), only to have Laniatus LLC issue a copyright strike against his channel, threaten legal action against Callum demanding the video be pulled down. The video is live once again, with Laniatus withdrawing the DMCA claim (while admitting that the strike was baseless in the process).
However, the video (and Magic to Master's reaction to it) brought on the attention of MMORPG publisher Gameforge, the publishers of the MMORPG Metin2. It seems Magic to Master bears a striking resemblance to
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