Call of Duty STOLE the AK-50?
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If they use the actual trademarked name, yes. Many games have guns that look similar to a real life weapons but they'll call it something else to avoid trademark infringement. Here soldier, take this Burata 95 9mm.
Yeah, I remember those days too.
But nowadays it seems like every other game game, even garbage asset flips or little indie shooters, will just use fully legit AKs and M1A4s. I'm trying to figure out if they're really all going to Colt to negotiate trade mark usage or there has just developed a general understanding that they don't care anymore.
I think most guns simply have expired trademarks or were never trademarked in the first place (i.e. foreign military weapons like various AKs). Something newish like a Kriss Vector probably is and in that case, yeah, they either make a deal with the manufacturer or call it a Vriss Kector. I'd definiteky expect for example H&K to go after game devs, because they hate civilians and they're assholes, but for most other manufacturers it's just free advertising unless the gun sucks in a game, I guess.
I want to play a game with only HiPoints.
"Hell yes! I just unlocked the Yeet Cannon!"
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The only gun to my knowledge that Call of Duty had an actual license to use was the Remington ACR back in (classic) Modern Warfare 2. It even had Remington branding on the gun.
Names like M4A1 or AK74-U are military designations, not trademarks from the manufacturer. It would be different if the game had something like a Colt 601 in it.
Good point. They could call it an M4, just not a Knights Armament M4.