The latest Kickstarter update has brought a message from Cory Jones, Cryptozoic's president, to the entire Hex community. WOTC cannot snuff out fair competition with frivolous infringement assertions,' The Hex Team continues. While IP rights are important, so is fair competition.

Many TCGs can, and do, coexist consistent with any IP rights WOTC might have. 'We respect intellectual property rights, but the right to make a TCG is not exclusive to WOTC. While both of them are trading card games, and as such share many similarities, there are also many ways in which the two games differ, the main of which being that Hex is a digital-only MMO-TCG that attempts to offer an experience that transcends cardboard, being innovative and pushing the boundaries of trading card games in ways that physical games wouldn't be able to. We do not expect this frivolous legal action to impact our efforts to deliver a compelling and entertaining game experience to our customers,' The Hex Team officially states.

'Although we take all pending litigation seriously, we do not find any merit to the allegations in the complaint. Wizards of the Coast has recently filed a lawsuit against Cryptozoic Entertainment and Hex Entertainment, alleging various similarities between HEX: Shards of Fate and Magic: The Gathering.Ĭryptozoic focused on developing something that takes a step beyond what people usually expect in trading card games, and their very successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter speaks volumes to Hex: Shards of Fate's potnetial.

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