No Licenses No Problem

Out of curiosity is there anything stopping DTG from doing what British railways/ forth rail do where they change the logo but keep the livery same?

like for example if we had no intercity license they could put DTG where the intercity logo would be etc

not sure how possible this is but could let us get few more liveries for lines missing correct liveries, also not sure if it’s a money thing since British railways is a free game and tsw isn’t

 

Why on earth would anyone call their game British railways. That's weird and confusing.

Edit: And devoid of creativity.

 

Is it? Railways in Britain are British railways, sound quite logical.

 

Because it’s just uk railways and trains would versions of irl stations but slightly different

 

Yes

 

Different how? Wizards?

 

Would be better for you just to watch a video or play the game then me trying to explain it

 

I think there's 2 points to consider:

1: you have to be legally distinct, if you released a Virgin livery train and simply changed the name to Burgin you leave yourself open to a legal challenge over livery/artwork.

2: Matt has said whenever a none branded train has been released (like the unfortunate case of WCMLs) DTG have received lots of negative feedback from players who have the expectation of officially branded trains.

Creators Club and PC Livery Mods exist, but should never be a replacement for licensed paid for DLC.

 

DTG already said they don't want to do trains without licenses, at least not the primary ones. For me personally licenses are not that important, I'm fine with the way they did the Czech route for example. The licensing issue for German routes is really holding back the game, so in my opinion it's time for a change when they really not can acquire a license.

 

Oh no it's Roblox.

 

What’s wrong with that?

 

I seem to recall that former BR trademarks/liveries are with the DfT. So I don't envisage any developers having issues getting permission for what were publicly owned companies and now defunct branding. We've had plenty of BR-era content so it's a fair assumption.

And DTG have worked with the DfT very recently, so it's also safe to assume there's a good relationship there. So no need to see "Gin-to-city", "Networth South East", "Red Tar Parcels" or "Reginald Railways" any time soon.

 

I’d rather unbranded rather than a “fake” logo, or a variation like we had with the Island Line.

 

The problem is that even shapes and shades can be part of the branding, not only the logo, so that you are faced with two alternatives, either you resort to something purely fictional but in the same vein, or... something uniformly gray...