We haven’t heard anything since Jagex’s statement about the official name of the game (codename “MechScape”). I thought it would be cool to give a little update on the current situation of the application of the Stellar Dawn trademark. In this article I will go through the options Jagex has for naming MechScape, this article is mostly speculation so keep that in mind. Also make sure to give your opinion in the comments.
Jagex has registered the trademark for the name Stellar Dawn, but their logo is not yet registered. Maybe they’ll wait until their logo is registered before they come with the game, it’s not actually required to register the trademark before use (as far as I know) but they might want to make sure their logo is ok. The Stellar Dawn logo is currently being advertised in the 6792nd trade mark journal, published on 03 July 2009. It takes about 2 months to register a trademark. So maybe we will see Stellar Dawn in about 1 month.
If Jagex decided to use another name for the game, that would be interesting. They haven’t registered any trademarks since Stellar Dawn that could qualify as a good space MMO name. Their last trademarks have been Bachelor Fridge, Infinite Dungeon, Never Ending Dungeon and Steel Sentinels. Note that they don’t have to own a trademark before they start using it. However the risk of using a trademark that’s already registered is present. It would sure be interesting to see another name pop up on the RuneScape homepage saying something like “Stellarscape beta for all RuneScape members!”. Stellarscape… yea right..
I don’t expect Jagex to come up with another name, especially since they’ve spend resources in both the names MechScape and Stellar Dawn. The only thing we can do now is wait for the beta to be released.
So what do you think will it be MechScape or Stellar Dawn, please comment below. - What name do you think it’s going to be and what name would you prefere?