Furniture giant Ikea has threatened to sue an indie horror game that’s partly about them.
A horror game announced a month ago, entered the radar of the world-famous furniture company IKEA and reached the level of being sued. What happened to a giant company like IKEA, wanted to sue a small, indie game?
You can actually see the answer in the headline of the news. Come on in this indie horror game The Store is Closed Let’s take a look at the video, the slogan and why IKEA took this action.
IKEA: The name ‘The Store is Closed’ harms our brand
The name of the gameThe Store is Closed’well ‘Store Closed’. The building of the store where the game takes place is dark blue, the brand name on the store is also yellow and all capital letters. As you can see in short, an IKEA replica.
The game, whose video was released 1 month ago, is currently being developed as an independent production on Kickstarter. However, it is likely that after this move by IKEA, the development of the game will be terminated, because the global furniture giant, that the name of the game hurt their brand They say that they will sue if it continues to be developed in this way.
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Source :
https://www.pcgamer.com/ikea-threatens-to-sue-the-maker-of-an-infinite-furniture-store-survival-game/