Today, I had my name Generic'd and my 3x Costumes erased, what do you think?

Today, my character 'Izual' was generic'd and had his three costumes revoked, as apparently the name Izual is owned by Blizzard.

It was also insisted that the characters looked too similar hence the costume wipes and now, I ask for your opinion.

My Izual:
Front:

Back:


Blizzard's Izual:
Front:

Back:


I apologize for the Izual pics being so small, unfortunately, that's the best I could find.

Do you see any similarities? Also, my Izual wears a kite shield with an Arachnos Symbol on it that is not shown in these pictures- your input would be appreciated!

Edit: Another artistic Izual image.

I can understand the name... it is a unique name created for another game, and copyrighted by the game creators.

The costume, not so much. Your costume doesn't look even remotely like Diablo's Izual.

I can understand the name being revoked, but from what you have posted and from my time playing Diablo, I would have never said hey you look like Izual from D2. I hope you get your costumes back. That is a sweet costume you created there.

Much appreciate your opinions, I plan to hopefully refer this thread to a moderator or something in hopes of them saying the same thing, I'm truly baffled at the city of heroes Game Master's not recognizing the difference between a slightly modified Crab Spider and a big blue lizard with gold parts and a tail- I'm disappointed.

Meh, it's just easier and safer for them to whack you with the generic stick than to figure out if your costume really was infringing. They likely never even looked at the costume - someone /protest'ed your 'infringing' character name, and a GM said, "Yep, that's on the list. *whack*" and went on their merry way.

This would be one reason I use the costume save feature and 'backup' the ones I hold dear. Assuming there's nothing infringing about the costume, you could rename the character and just upload the costume from Icon.

I think you could get a costume token or three out of a polite inquiry to the email they sent out.

Still, typing "izual" into google would have brought up the diablo npc in the top search hits. The ten seconds to do that when I'm considering character names is worth it, to me.

The name I can see why it got generic'd. The costume...not so much.

What did his other two costumes look like?

Was one of them too close to the IP violation Name from Diablo?

I think it might be possible that if one of the three was too close, all three got hit at the same time.

The costume - meh not similar at all & hope you get tokens to change back or have saved them yourself. But Izual is an unique name you should of been expecting the generic bat for.

I echo what those have said before me.The name, yes. The costume, not at all.

I'd also like to add how nice it is to see someone get genericed, come on here, and politely ask for opinions. Most of the time someone comes on here and complains, or sometimes even insults whoever it was that genericed them, demanding that they have their name restored. Normally saying something about how they have the right to copy because you can easily replicate Wolverine with the costume creator or something. Cheers for your maturity.

Every name of every game character was "borrowed" at some point. It's not as though they invented the name. Pretty petty, if you ask me.

hey look here's another Izual, quick someone rat him out to the Twitter Police so they can generic him!


it's all so ridiculous.

lol, the mods are out to get you anni... that and some random kid is going around reporting all your toons

I think when a name infringement wasn't obviously deliberate, they should give you a free rename token after generic-ing you. It sucks to totally lose a character just because some fantasy company has a character you've never even heard of.