‘No Man’s Sky’ Gets To Keep Its Name; Sky Sulks

  Humanity has a long and varied history of shitting on the little guy. As we speak, some fancy-ass multimillion dollar Internet company is putting an 87-year-old librarian out of business (whatever ‘libraries’ are). That’s someone’s grandma, right there. Damn you, faceless corporations. Damn you to hell.  

One thing these guys like to do is take ownership of words. Freaking words. Freedom of speech is one thing, but if you try to use a word or phrase from a company’s name/slogan/whatever, their angry band of winged lawyer monkeys will crush your face into spam. In the case of Sky and No Man’s Sky, they’ll fight bitterly for three years to defend their rights to be assholes.

Now, you’re probably familiar with Sky. They’re the guys who gave you eight million TV channels, 7,999,990 of which are full of pure terrible. But did you know that they own the word Sky?

As Destructoid reports, the same guys who made Microsoft change Skydrive to Onedrive wouldn’t let the No Man’s Sky developers name their game so easily. As Sean Murray, founder of developer Hello Games, Tweeted:

‘Yay! We finally settled with Sky (they own the word “Sky”). We can call our game No Man’s Sky. 3 years of secret stupid legal nonsense over.’

Fight the power, No Man's Sky.