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Topic: Sega Losses Trademark to Shenmue

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Captain_Toad

SEGA.. you had 13 years........

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SheldonRandoms

THE NEW OWNER OF SHENMUE SHALL BE ME!!!!!

(And if you can lose a trademark like that, then i'll take Ristar while i'm at it :3)

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Blast

Yikes... that's horrible...

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Tasuki

Source? I mean if you are going to state something a source would be nice.

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SomeBitTripFan

Can Sega get it back? If not, Shenmue 3 could be more of a reality than we thought.

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Tasuki

Also probably would take you more seriously if you spelled Shenmue correctly.

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Rezalack

This is somewhat old news, a simple google search would show quite a few sites reporting this.

http://www.vg247.com/2014/02/19/sega-loses-shenmue-trademark-...

I'm not sure if this kills a chance for Shenmue 3 or not, though. It didn't feel like it was ever going to happen anyway. It's not like they couldn't make something similar with a different name and call it a Shenmue spiritual successor.

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SheldonRandoms

MrWalkieTalkie wrote:

Shamune? Phew! Thank goodness! For a second I thought they lost the rights to Shenmue!

Shamune is owned by this guy

Poor Ryo, he'll never complete his capsule collection now

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RancidVomit86

Perhaps Yu Suzuki can pick it up and complete the story now. Hope for some good news from YS.net

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DualWielding

Unless Japanesse system works diferently you cannot really lose a trademark all you lose is the right to sue people until you pay the government again

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Socar

I can understand if they don't want to make Shenmue 3, but why can't they just make the other two games on Steam?

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Magikarp3

I thought SEGA already gave a postmortem to Shenmue a while back. I've always wanted to play it, even though all footage I've seen of it makes me think I wouldn't like it (all those quick time events and that voice acting...)

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Peach64

As much as I love Shenmue, and as big a cult hit it is on forums, Shenmue lost a lot of money for Sega. It just doesn't sell. The only way we'll ever see Shenmue 3 is through crowd funding.

It's doubly sad as the spiritual successor series Yakuza is now going the same way.

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spizzamarozzi

It just means anyone in the US can market a product (any product) by the name of Shenmue - be it Sega, Nintendo or Procter & Gamble - it doens't mean Sega lost its property on the franchise or that they can't renew the licence in the future. It's not a big deal.

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KingMike

SheldonRandoms wrote:

THE NEW OWNER OF SHENMUE SHALL BE ME!!!!!

(And if you can lose a trademark like that, then i'll take Ristar while i'm at it :3)

Better be planning to actually make a game called Shenmue while you legally can or Sega will probably sue the rights out of you.
I remember that is how EA took down a trademark troll called Tim Langdale (who claimed he owned the rights to the word "edge") in like 2008. When EA did stuff besides evil.

(yeah, I'm sure you were joking though)

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