During this year, we've faced many challenges, and we have to make difficult decisions.
In this spring we received a complaint from one of the companies related to transport. They require us to pay a fine and remove content which is used illegally, in their opinion. We are still trying to insist that we aren't violating any copyrights, but it isn't a quick routine, and of course it takes money, time and mental health. It is still unknown what will happen in the end of this story.
In this regard, we took a decision that all vehicles in Bus World will look unlike any real ones to minimize the risk of receiving more complaints. That goes for both buses and traffic cars.
Buses will have their own names - we came up with a few fictional manufacturers. Of course, we consider the direction of design solutions during the years when the real bus was manufactured.
On the screenshots below you can see Soviet buses OSB-3101, OSB Vostok and a modern bus which you can drive in Southern China.
Anticipating questions about licensing real buses and cars: our probability to negotiate on acceptable conditions is very low. We have some experience in working with lawyers in this sphere and representatives of transport companies. Unfortunately, situation with patents and copyrights in sphere of transport is very complicated: areas of responsibility of employees are blurred, taking decisions lasts for a long time and finally, they are not interested in cooperation with small studios like us due to non-comparable level of companies.
We understand that many of you may be disappointed with this news, but unfortunately there is nothing we can do about it now.
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