stackyFACTSCorporate lawyers have zero chill. When Minecraft creator Notch announced a new fantasy card game simply titled 'Scrolls', the legal team at Bethesda Softworks sued him. They legitimately argued that gamers were too stupid to tell the difference between a digital 2D card game and their massive open-world RPG, The Elder Scrolls.
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