Wizards files lawsuit against Pokemon USA/TPC/Nintendo

[killa_project]

a game should have more to it than to deck out your opponent. The Harry Potter league lasted for about a month here but after that it quickly fell and nobody(except some short kid) liked it anymore.

 

[FlygonChampion]

Never mind Harry Potter, we should all be worried about Nintendo. Crisis Mode People!! PANIC!!! GAHHHH!!!!
[/end panic mode]

....anywho, they could somehow settle this outside court, and then it's Hakuna Matata my friends.

 

[ScythKing]

the Harry Potter TCg was a good one with a somewhat unique idea, to deck out the opponent as the primary way to win.
I heard it failed do to lack of support from WOTC. It was popular for the 1st 5 minutes it was out but they didn't organizer leagues very well and support diee. they definately made a mistake not getting the leagues together.

They got the Leagues out ok - the BAM's got its League kits regularly - it just wasn't a very good game IMHO. People thought Harry Potter was gonna be some sort of merchandising cash cow like Pokemon and it never was.

 

[Gyarados vision]

There is some saying that Nintendo plans to destroy Wizards by "stealing" Wizards staff and ideas from Wizards. Prehaps Wizards can win the case?

BUT don't forget, Nintendo produces the cards originally in Japan, and the English cards are printed by Wizards with permission. The permission has been recalled, what can Wizards do now? Just keep fighting with Nintendo in the court only.

 

[League Leader Terry]

Well, it's not like Harry Potter was the first and only game based around decking your opponent. That's the main win condition of DBZ (though admittingly not the only one) and isthe main condition of Raw Deal (besides special stuff like playing 3 Small Package in a row).

As for the Harry Potter League, the local BAM tried to replace the Pokemon League with that and I don't think a single person showed. Harry Potter around here was the kind of thing that a lot of people liked, but no one would admit to liking. To quote the LotR episode of South Park:

Cartman: Hey, what are you kids doing?
Little Kid in a British accent: We're playing Harry Potter.
Cartman: .....*edited*
Admittingly, they weren't playing the CCG, but it's the same idea.

 

[KingOfDemons]

I did a demo of the Harry Potter TCG and I always thought it was a lame donkey combination of DBZ and Pokemon. IMO I hated this game.

Glad it went to H-E-Double Hockey Sticks. And I was hoping it would take Magi Nation with it too.

IMO about this whole thing (since I'm sorta in the same situation WIzards and Nintendo are) is to just sit back and let's see what the results are.

Haha, the Harry Potter TCG was their biggest flop ever. The Harry Potter Leagues were supposed to be that big and important, but attendance wasn't exactly overwhelming. No wonder, the game was like an extremely boring kiddie version of Magic. "My first Magic", dropping every win condition other than decking out!