• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Well to be fair to Molyneux, Albion just means Great Britain. That name is centuries old so anyone can use it.

    • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 hour ago

      Someone told me that before. Still, if Peter Molyneux puts out a game and uses the name Albion, we know what he’s referring to.

      Fable’s Albion could even be Great Britain in an alternate universe.

      It’s like Pandora. It’s been used by a bunch of companies for different reasons. But if Gearbox lost the rights to Borderlands and they set a new game on a planet called Pandora, I would not expect they were talking about the jeweler.

      So I suppose it benefits Molyneux that his world and title were so generic he can use them without the Fable license.