The WarZ Mess...

[fellix]

The War Z Mess: Every Crazy Detail We Know So Far

This week's wildest story is the story of The War Z, a new Steam game that has caused a great deal of controversy for numerous reasons.

This afternoon, The War Z was pulled from Steam.

Fans have come out criticizing the zombie survival game for misleading advertising, suspicious microtransactions, and forum censorship. Meanwhile, The War Z's developers have defended themselves, telling us that "93% of [their] customers like the game."

It's a bizarre mess that we've been following closely and will continue to follow as this week goes on. Here's everything we know about The War Z so far.

Controversy led the developers to change the game's Steam description.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

What exactly has happened? Does anyone here has a first hand experience?

 

[Davros]

War Z” trademark SUSPENDED - Game will have to be renamed

The trademark application by OP Productions for the name “War Z” has been SUSPENDED because the trademark office feels that the name is too similar to the name of Paramount Pictures upcoming movie “World War Z”.

 

[Argoon]

This guys maybe made wrong things but why does Paramount Pictures name has precedence to their game name, it came first after all so imo it was the movie that should change the name not the other way around.

 

[fellix]

Well, not much of a "war" was going on in the game, anyway. This video-review says it all:

 

[Gerry]

This guys maybe made wrong things but why does Paramount Pictures name has precedence to their game name, it came first after all so imo it was the movie that should change the name not the other way around.

World War Z is a book that was published over 5 years ago. It pre-dates the "game" by some margin.

The game is clearly a cash grab. A poorly executed attempt to cash in on the attention of the Day Z mod. The fact that it's named deliberately to confuse people who are interested in either the book/film or the standalone Day Z game isn't a coincidence.

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

This guys maybe made wrong things but why does Paramount Pictures name has precedence to their game name, it came first after all so imo it was the movie that should change the name not the other way around.

The movie gets it's name rights from the book of the same name, which pre-dates the name WarZ.

 

[Argoon]

Ok didn't knew that i stand corrected.

 

[Davros]

it came first after all

NO.

WORLD WAR Z : Filing Date July 10, 2012
THE WAR Z : Filing Date July 20, 2012

WORLD WAR Z : Filing Date : May 26, 2011 (with regard to merchandise)

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

NO.

WORLD WAR Z : Filing Date July 10, 2012
THE WAR Z : Filing Date July 20, 2012

The World War Z novel was published Sept 12 2006, so not a leg to stand on for WarZ, especially given the similarity of the story/setting.