"We don't want to think about this right now. "For the last half of last year we were just working on the game, and this would come up, and we were like, can we just stall this?" says Watson. "We kept hoping it would just go away," Jorgensen says. So, Stoic hired a lawyer and stuck its fingers in its ears. King had filed an objection in the summer of 2013, right in the middle of crunch for the three-person, Austin, Texas-based developer, on the grounds of The Banner Saga being "confusingly and deceptively similar" to King's trademark for the word "Saga". Stoic actually knew about King's attempt to prevent it from using the word saga for months before it hit the headlines. But now, well, now, they're happy it happened. It was, they say, for a bit, particularly before everyone knew about it. I suggest the whole trademark dispute must have been pretty worrying and pretty stressful. Now, nearly half a year after Stoic and King settled their differences, co-founders John Watson and Arnie Jorgensen are in Eurogamer's meeting room in Brighton and laughing. It didn't need to do anything else, because the internet did the rest of the work for them. It was the only statement Stoic released on the matter throughout the entire episode. We're humbled by the outpouring of support and honoured to have others stand with us for the right to their own Saga. " claims they're not attempting to prevent us from using The Banner Saga, and yet their legal opposition to our trademark filing remains. We won't make a Viking saga without the word 'Saga,' and we don't appreciate anyone telling us we can't. We did, and people loved it, so we're making another one. "Two years ago, the three of us at Stoic set out to make an epic Viking game: The Banner Saga. On 22nd January 2014, The Banner Saga developer Stoic Studios released a statement about its trademark dispute with mobile game specialist over the word "Saga".
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