People News GrimoireGate: Cleve Blakemore in trademark dispute with impostor Grimoire

[ghostdog]

Now that the Cleve-litigating machine is on the move, the codex should be on its toes.

DarkUnderlord do we have a signed document from Cleve that gives us permission to use Grimoire's copyrighted art assets as our avatars ? If you recall we've already been warned with a lawsuit. He was rebutted with laughable claims about fair use and that he himself had used D&D copyrighted material and after that "stalemate" we've been surviving on Cleve's good graces alone.

Once the Cleve-Law-Behemoth is up and running it will crush everything in its way, friend or foe...

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

(Trash is dead, right?)

Trash, are you dead?

Even Trash wishes it were so. I'm all for healthy self-loathing but Trash has taken it to a zen level.

 

[Trash]

(Trash is dead, right?)

Trash, are you dead?

Nah, just smelling funny.

 

[kaizoku]

This actually isn't a problem because Grimoire will never be released.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

This actually isn't a problem because Grimoire will never be released.

Which one?

 

[Infinitron]

Pro-Blakemore trailer:

 

[Jaesun]

 

[fanta]

Pro-Blakemore trailer

Ok this is literally the best thing I've watched this year. Is this a genuine Blakemore production or an imitation?

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

I'm looking for Sarah Connor Brenda Romero.

 

[Azalin]

I'm looking for Sarah Connor Brenda Romero.

Can't wait for the Sarah Connor/Kyle Reese Cleve/Brenda sex scene


Man Cleve and Grimoire keep on delivering

 

[Makabb]

Pro-Blakemore trailer:

If I was omniwhatever i'd be shitting my pants right now.

 

[Korron]

This is the most important thing happening in games right now. Ryan Morrison must lose.

 

[titus]

This is the most important thing happening in games right now. Ryan Morrison must be destroyed.

Someone feed him his parents.

 

[RK47]

what a shame

 

[Oni]

It looks like they only registered it in the US. Isn't Cleve Australian? Maybe he can get it trademarked there and then go for an international trademark.

 

[UnknownBro]

Cleave. Just hold there buddy. You just got Codex support on your Crusade.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

Cleave. Just hold there buddy. You just got Codex support on your Crusade.

Crusade isn't the word to use.

Sapiens have intruded into his territory, he's just trying to get rid of them.

 

[UnknownBro]

So he is using his survival skills then. Like a cougar defending his territory,

 

[Gragt]

Did some people forget that Cleve used to regularly mock and insult the Codex, leaving it a few times "forever," because it wasn't worthy of his affabulated Neanderthal presence? If memory serves, he even declared that Grimoire was too good for us and wouldn't allow any Codexer to purchase it. And then he came back, as if that was the most natural thing in the world, right before he started his first fundraising campaign, realising that the Codex was the only place on the Net that would accept him and provide some kind of support for Grimoire. And now some consider him as practically family, akin to a wayward sibling, but still family—so much even that apparently the rest of the Net associates Cleve with the Codex despite his past virulence for us.

I don't know about the real state of Grimoire, although all the bragging with little to show makes it look like a classical speculative case of "too good to be true," but I find it convenient that this would happen so close to the end of the bug countdown that signifies the real release of Grimoire—opposed to the numerous missed deadlines "Come ITZ or blackpocalypse, it'll be released" of the past years. On one side you got a group of unknown developpers, working on a derivative and uninspired game, who suddenly enjoy a burst of publicity and sympathy for their clash with the aggressive, arrogant, and racist snake oil salesman, and on the other side Grimoire gets postponed to a later date while Cleve deals with this problem, spending both time and money while the Golden Baby was so close to fly this time. Yes, it's probably too far-fetched, but not as fanciful as the various doomsday prophecies Cleve used to post here on a monthly basis.

 

[Lady_Error]

I don't think that Cleve is spending all his time working on this case. The remaining bugs seem to be larger issues, such as fixing all the missing words in dialogue etc.

I don't know about the real state of Grimoire, although all the bragging with little to show makes it look like a classical speculative case of "too good to be true"

I guess you really don't know. Just download the superdemo and see for yourself. As people have been repeating over and over, the demo is larger than most RPG's released today.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Did some people forget that Cleve used to regularly mock and insult the Codex, leaving it a few times "forever," because it wasn't worthy of his affabulated Neanderthal presence? If memory serves, he even declared that Grimoire was too good for us and wouldn't allow any Codexer to purchase it. And then he came back, as if that was the most natural thing in the world, right before he started his first fundraising campaign, realising that the Codex was the only place on the Net that would accept him and provide some kind of support for Grimoire. And now some consider him as practically family, akin to a wayward sibling, but still family—so much even that apparently the rest of the Net associates Cleve with the Codex despite his past virulence for us.

I don't know about the real state of Grimoire, although all the bragging with little to show makes it look like a classical speculative case of "too good to be true," but I find it convenient that this would happen so close to the end of the bug countdown that signifies the real release of Grimoire—opposed to the numerous missed deadlines "Come ITZ or blackpocalypse, it'll be released" of the past years. On one side you got a group of unknown developpers, working on a derivative and uninspired game, who suddenly enjoy a burst of publicity and sympathy for their clash with the aggressive, arrogant, and racist snake oil salesman, and on the other side Grimoire gets postponed to a later date while Cleve deals with this problem, spending both time and money while the Golden Baby was so close to fly this time. Yes, it's probably too far-fetched, but not as fanciful as the various doomsday prophecies Cleve used to post here on a monthly basis.

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Humorless, stonefaced severely autistic drudge and all-around drag

 

[Makabb]

The saga continues, Cleve vs Omniconnection

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

The saga continues, Cleve vs Omniconnection

How is Infinitron supposed to harvest the brofists if you post in both Grimoire threads? This is the news section, after all!

 

[Makabb]

The saga continues, Cleve vs Omniconnection

How is Infinitron supposed to harvest the brofists if you post in both Grimoire threads? This is the news section, after all!

infinitron give me back my brofists first

 

[DashiDMV]

To be fair the Cleve army smile was carried over from here to there and milked for fists as well. It's a two way street.