![]() ![]() Eventually, it’s likely to get a scary-sounding letter from a lawyer-aka a cease and desist-from the rights holder, and the project will be forced to shut down. Whenever a fan project gets announced, especially one that garners real attention, a countdown begins. “There's a giant crater in my mind involving the timeline of events around the C&D because it was pretty devastating,” said combat designer Omari Smith to me recently. ![]() But on February 8, 2013, Fighting Is Magic was effectively cancelled, and despite the team’s attempts to find a resolution with Hasbro, the company wasn’t interested. It was long enough for fans to wonder if the lawyers at Hasbro were prepared to turn a blind eye. The fan-driven fighting game building on Hasbro’s kid-centric property, whose hardcore, adult (largely) male fans are affectionately called bronies, began development in the summer of 2011, and for the next year and a half, seemed to face no legal opposition. Them’s Fightin’ Herds’ arrival on Steam late last month is the surprising conclusion of a daunting seven-year journey of fandom. ![]()
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