Name Conflicts

I've wondered if someone created a hero name in the game and sometime later one of the major comic book publishers took that name - who would win? Fairly certain NCSoft doesn't copyright any of our names .... so whoever copyrights/trademarks first would have the right to order cease and desist to the other party?

I've also wondered, especially with the upcoming Marvel MMO, if there might have been some kind of backroom deal for NCSoft to sunset CoH early, to eliminate the possibility of such conflicts and/or competition. Wouldnt even put it past the CO folks to try it.

As far as this game goes, it's a policy thing. For the most part, it was never about raw names but full cloning. There were many names set in a filter to avoid them due to their high notoriety (Spiderman, Wolverine, etc), but it would be impossible to ban every name ever used. I think every single word in the dictionary has been used to name a comic book hero or villain at some point.

If it was less notorious, I would not be shocked if a name like Lobo would have been allowed for a werewolf until someone actually did a DC Lobo clone.

BTW, as far as I understand, the Marvel MMO is going to be more of an action-figure thing, you won’t create your own characters instead you pick existing characters from the Marvel Universe to play as.