Star Control II Creators Succeed in Star Control: Origins Removal from Steam and GOG After DMCA Notice

Star Control: Origins released back in September 20th by developer Stardock but not without legal action. The creators of Star Control II released a DMCA takedown of the game and now a verdict has been reached with GOG and Steam removing the title from their stores.

The news came from Stardock's official site:

We have received news today that Paul Reiche III and Fred Ford, contractors on the classic DOS game, Star Control 2 for Accolade and widely credited as being the "creators" of Star Control II have issued a DMCA take down notices to Valve and GOG to take down Star Control: Origins.

In the statement, Stardock claims they purchased the rights off Atari back in 2013 and that the company spent 5 years making the game.

Star Control: Origins does not contain any copyrighted work of Reiche or Ford. We spent 5 years working on it making it our own game. It very much plays like you would expect a Star Control game. But that has nothing to do with copyright.

Due to this Stardock won't be able to profit from the game as they fight this legal battle. 

Adam Siddiqui, NoobFeed
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