by Meditron on Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:05 pm
First time to the forums here, but I felt this was a good enough situation. I have to say that the changes to the classic map and the "centerscape" (read: middle earth) map are entirely ridiculous. I'm sure some much more minor changes could be made to the classic map since it's technically only a Napoleonic map of the world, last time I checked no one had copyrighted the Napoleonic map of the world.
The middle earth map wasn't even an exact representation of middle earth to begin with, nor did it closely resemble Hasbro's LOTR risk very closely either, so i could see maybe changing names on that map for copyright purposes but by no means reducing it to that.
Over all my greatest disappointment is with classic map. It already graphically was different that the Risk boards I've ever seen, I'm sure it could've been only minorly changed to avoid real problems.
This is simply ridiculous.