Despite being clearly dead.
The Repopulation isn’t dead, they still sell Chocolately Crunch cereal, and I am currently in a loving relationship with Emily Arima. You can read all of this and more in my upcoming book; Lies You’ve Been Told on the Internet.
As much as we’d like it to go away and stay away, the folks at Idea Fabrik refuse to let sleeping dogs lie and The Repopulation stay dead. In a post on the official forums, the folks at Idea Fabrik are boldly risking a defamation lawsuit by directly calling Sarrene Miller (referred to as the “woman”) a scam artist.
As they explained above, the claim that The Repopulation was transferred to IF Studios and that the Facebook, Twitter pages were handed over is completely false. Nothing was handed over to us, not even the Steam page, which we had to retrieve from Valve with great difficulty. The woman in charge of TGS is a real scam artist. As Idea Fabrik PLC, we are preparing to sue this woman and everyone in the company. TGS has no rights to any new branding or to continue or maintain anything belonging to Idea Fabrik PLC. This is fraud.
The piece goes on to accuse TGS Tech of various scams including trademark theft, while complimenting their lawyers on their skill. I’m getting mixed signals here.
Despite every good faith attempt and cease and desist notice by IF to TGS, they continue to persist in this scam. Let us state very clearly and unequivocally that Idea Fabrik PLC, the real intellectual property owner of the final and official version of the game engine: HeroEngine 2.6.7 and no sublicense or commercial license has been granted. This corporate derivative organism, which makes itself look innocent (with documented and proven evidence), is very skilled in trademark theft, deleting/corrupting customers’ database backups, intellectual property theft, etc., and both they and their lawyers are very skilled, will be duly responded to.
The Repopulation is totes not dead, because Laniatus said so and they are as trustworthy as one can get. Sure the website is broken, the social media accounts have been dead for years, and Laniatus’ own website doesn’t acknowledge that The Repopulation exists. But they’re taking this seriously guys.
On the topic of trademark theft, it should be noted that out of the two parties Laniatus is the only one that has repeatedly demonstrated bad faith conduct. The company committed perjury by knowingly filing a bad faith DMCA against a YouTube critic, committed fraud by posting fake reviews of its upcoming game via an embarrassingly failed Kickstarter campaign.
There are words to describe Laniatus and Hero Engine, and I don’t think competent or professional appear in any of those lists.
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