Nor could they ever do anything to stop you from making another game. For some reason people think the DOTA lawsuit was about the game. But it wasn’t ! It was about trademark infringement over the NAME. Blizzard argued that people would buy DOTA because they thought it was made by them.
But somehow that’s turned into them trying to stop Valve from making a MOBA. LoL didn’t get sued…because you can not copyright a general game idea. (Which would seem obvious given all the competing RTS, FPS, ARPG, etc) games.
(Also couldn’t commercialize a map in the 2002 EULA but why would people read that!)
Blizzard definitely own all Custom Games and all copyright in the content of those Custom Games. Obviously that won’t matter with third party copyright that you nor Blizzard can legally claim but it does include everything that is or would otherwise be your copyright.
Custom Games are and shall remain the sole and exclusive property of Blizzard. Without limiting the foregoing, you hereby assign to Blizzard all of your rights, title, and interest in and to all Custom Games, including but not limited to any copyrights in the content of any Custom Games.
Blizzard didn’t make the map, the community members who made the map did. Blizzard has no right to claim ownership of something it didn’t make itself. It also has no right to claim it created something it didn’t create.
Doesn’t matter what the EULA says. It’s a friggin’ joke.
They created the tool, much of the artwork, AI, etc. You’ll test the maps on their servers, in their game engine, etc. They have the right to claim ownership over what you make in their environment…
You just have the right to not use it and make projects in something you do agree with.
So what if they made the tools? They didn’t make the actual content.
That you’re sticking up for a B.S. practice like that says a lot about you as a person. It ain’t good.
And for the record, I already refunded. I’m not about to give my money to a trash company that steals other people’s work just because they allowed those people to use their own tools to mod the game.
Because all those tools, art, code, etc. was all magically made for free!!!
It’s a map editor for hobbiest to make stuff for fun. You want to make games for money? Use the tools that exist to do so. And guess what…most of those require you to pay for a developer license or split profit with them.