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[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Idk if that's the actual justification behind it, but IIRC, not showing other platforms logos is just a technical requirement.

No, I played when that happened.

They launched it with icons for nintendo switch, xbox, PC and playstation.

Within a week they had to hotfix to the generic icons for stated reason because "Sony was worried about the meme potential of an xbox player beating a PS player in PVP." That was stated as the reason in one of their weekly livestreams.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Legal requirement, not technical. Trademark law.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Obviously it's a legal requirement but I'm 99% sure it was also on the TRC. Like, even if you were to obtain the proper license to these symbols from Microsoft, Sony wouldn't allow you to use them on their systems.

IIRC Xbox were way less anal about this too.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's still a legal requirement, not a technical one. A legal requirement that is exactly in the middle of the trademark couch and in no way whatsoever a technicality.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

True but it's one that's usually handled and checked by technical people. Which is probably why they put it in the technical requirements checklist, now that you're saying it.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nah. Technical people are not responsible for a corporation's legal requirements (unless they're lawyers on the payroll of course), unless the company is ran by morons ... which is likely, in your defense.