Banana Boyz wannabes of Wildhammer

BBz News — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:27:00 +0800

While we have left World of Warcraft as a guild for a few months now, it has recently been brought to our attention that some wannabes felt the need to copycat us and rename their guild to Banana Boyz on the Wildhammer server.

Apparently some ex members of our old Laughingskull guild decided to migrate to the Wildhammer server. They joined some guild there called Hording School and after some time this Hording School guild renamed itself to Banana Boyz. One of the Hording School guys (Epik) even decided to register a domain name with our guild name apparently with the approval of his "guildmaster".

Note that neither the guild leader (UndeadHead) nor the "webmaster" (Epik) have anything to do with Banana Boyz to start with and their wannabe guild doesn't even have a single Banana Boyz founder either (just several ex members from our Laughing Skull guild).

The first defense of these Hording School/wannabe BBz guys was "we didn't choose to rename ourselves Banana Boyz we were asked to by our new members". Then when we get some ex LS BBz within their own ranks to ask for a guild name change, it is denied and they come up with a new defense line : "Your guild name is not copyrighted we can use it if we want to".

At least their new defense line makes more sense. Yes Hording School, you have the "legal right" of being Banana Boyz wannabes, be assured that noone will sue you IRL for that.

It is not like it happends for the first time. There have been many wannabes copycating our guild names for many years and I guess its natural for successful 10+ years old guilds... However those guilds usually had no website or used some free hosted subdomain. I guess that this time, by registering a new website with our name in it, people got even more confused and contacted us much faster to know if it was the real Banana Boyz or just some fake copy.

So this post clears those doubts out: no these guys aren't the real Banana Boyz which have been using that guild name in online games for the past 10 years and will continue to do so in upcoming games. But I guess the post will also provide those wannabes with the moment of fame they've been trying so hard to obtain... So enjoy it while it lasts :)

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Banana Boyz wannabes of Wildhammer