Don't confuse the new Atlas Book with EQ Atlas

Just copying over what I posted on the update page so you can comment: Muse sent me this note to post for you: "SOE recently began promoting their new book, the Everquest Atlas, and some of you have expressed to me some confusion regarding this. Despite the similarity between the name of this product and their use of "EQ Atlas" to advertise it on the Everquest Live site, the product is not related in any way to my site, EQ Atlas (www.eqatlas.com). While we both offer maps and descriptions, the specific content is quite different. I hope that this announcement will clear up any confusion." I'll go a bit further. /rant on. It seems pretty rotten of them to be using the good will he built up over the past three years to sell their book in a way that would clearly confuse players into thinking Muse is involved with it. Muse is a friend, so I may be prejudiced on this one, and yeah it is Sony's game, but I can easily think of a dozen names they could have picked that would have been just as good and wouldn't have suggested a connection with his site. The only logical conclusion to draw is that they are hoping people will go "Cool. EQ Atlas has a book" and buy it based upon that. Shameful, really. Moreover, having looked at the example pdf file SOE lists and compared it to the information on Muse's site, I'm not sure why anyone would buy that book when EQ Atlas offers far superior maps and information for free, and has been serving the community for years. Yeah they're pretty, but who wants a map without locs and camp information? /rant off.

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RE: Whiners and tax accountants
# Aug 19 2002 at 8:57 PM Rating: Excellent
11 posts
Actually, they wouldn't stand a chance of getting me to change my name, nor will I. They don't own a trademark on EQ (nor did they even invent it, and you'll see they don't use it anywhere on their products) and, like many people have said, atlas is generic. If anything, I could sue them to change the name of their book, since I actually have a trademark for EQ Atlas (not registered, but in this country that's not required).
RE: Whiners and tax accountants
# Aug 20 2002 at 2:38 PM Rating: Decent
5 posts
Yeah, that's why I was careful to say "what I would do..." I personally tend to be more fatalistic about these things. I actually do appreciate the idealistic position. I just have a firmly entrenched cynical belief that in American civil courts, victory is solely a matter of who has the deeper pockets to start with.
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