lol Upper Deck sues itself over counterfeit Yu-Gi-Oh! cards

[dgwillia]

Upper Deck International: I summon Lawsuit in Attack Mode to attack you directly!"
Upper Deck USA: I activate Magic Cylinders!
Konami: FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

 

[Hydreigon]

When I saw the title, I was like, lolwut?

...Then I read the article and the post from AW.

 

[chyyran]

You know who this isn't funny to?
Yu-Gi-Oh fans.

Right now I'm practically screaming FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--
because one of my favorite card games is likely to go on hiatus in the United States, because I doubt UDI could find a suitable company within a short time frame.

I'm finding this ironic, but Yu-Gi-Oh is awesome. Time to stock up in booster packs

 

[The Shadow Knigh]

You know who this isn't funny to?
Yu-Gi-Oh fans.

Right now I'm practically screaming FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--
because one of my favorite card games is likely to go on hiatus in the United States, because I doubt UDI could find a suitable company within a short time frame.

Last I checked Konami has cut out Upper Deck for more than a little while now. So I don't see how this will affect anyhting.

 

[FAST6191]

As we seem to be doing the related video thing
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/06/19/...s-playbook.html
Granted this is more of an accounting thing (I got linked from http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/06/2...iation_holiday/ which also covers a bit or related stuff and why subsidiaries are a good idea for some business) but some concepts carry over.

I don't understand...how can the official seller of Yu-Gi-Oh cards make counterfeit cards? Wouldn't printing a card at the official printer make it an official card? Or were they scribbling on napkins on their lunch break and selling them in Ziploc bags to idiots?

The same way that if the mint printed some money using the real ink, the real cloth and real plates but without the authorisation of the relevant authorities it would still be counterfeit although this more than currency is probably about artificial scarcity and intellectual property conferring some value. Assuming it was funnelled through the subsidiary I would not be surprised if they instead went for an undeclared profits route (I guess they still own shares or some such) rather than some contract law depending on what will net them the most money but this is rapidly leaving my preferred area of law so I will keep speculation at that.

"Also, there are tons of fake Yu-Gi-Oh cards, which neither Konami or Upper Deck recieved royalties from, suing those makes more sense then suing your own subsidiary."
If it was worth it I am sure they would but this is a clear cut case of bad practice by an entity big enough and ugly enough to know what goes with I presume a good chance of winning something.

@TehSkull most of the rest of the world already gets to import their card/board games, comics and things that usually find themselves in the same shops that sell such things so I am sure people will step up for it should it come to it.

 

[KingAsix]

I think the title is a little misleading....As AW said these are two different companies so it isn't technically suing themselves. The only reason I opened this is because I was like "How and why would you sue yourself."

I have a lot of yugioh playing friends who might not like this news though :/

 

[FlameTakuya]

Ah, I remember counterfeit YuGiOh cards. As if the original ones weren't poorly designed enough.

There's always knock off YuGiOh cards but I've hardly seen any (actually, I don't think I've seen a single one) for Magic the Gathering or Pokemon (Pokemon seems more likely though).

EDIT: Magic and Pokemon are both made by Wizards of the Coast by the way.

Pokemon was made by Wizards of the Coast last time, but now it isn't anymore, Nintendo themselves handle the card game now.

Counterfeit Pokemon cards used to be everywhere last time, but now you hardly see them anymore. hmmm. I guess it's cause the game itself isn't as popular anymore that's why they don't bother to make knockoffs. :/