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Sunday, March 20, 2005

WOTC is taking over the world!!!!!

No...just kidding LOLz

But its actually true in a sense, that WOTC (Wizard of the Coast) is trying to dominate the Trading Card Game world.

WOTC known for its Magic:The Gathering TCG and Dungeon & Dragons RPGs. Is dominating the market as MTG is becoming more popular around the world.

I've been surfing in Wikipedia looking for some material, and this interesting articel on WOTC caught my eye. Its about WOTC patenting the gameplay for MTG.

WTH, by patenting the whole MTG gameplay, is basically owning THE WHOLE TCG GAMEPLAY!!!

Theres a lot of game that is similiar to MTG, this patent has given WOTC the right to practically sue them all!! o_O

WOTC has already gone to court over Pokemon TCG with Nintendo, but they're able to settle it outside of the court. I don't know if they are going for other TCG yet, but if they did, it'll be a WOTC dominated TCG market. With other companies limited with what they can release.

WOTC website
website

The page in Wikipedia
TCG page

The patent
patent

interesting isnt it?
Wonder how it will continue?
Will the other game companies sue WOTC for trying to monopoly the market?
We have to just wait and see for now ;-)

Thats all I can give today,
Jya Ne


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