Because airing dirty laundry publicly isn't really professional. I don't think we really know what she thinks about it, and if she does have a problem with it, It'll probably be said behind closed doors to people who make the decisions. If memory serves she wasn't planning to do that, but wasn't going to undermine the writers by going against them. Yeah, maybe Lauren Faust didn't plan that, but presenting as 'Backstabbing' may give a false impression of her reaction. I don't have a problem with anyone protecting creative property, but I feel like Hasbro made this decision just for the sake of doing it.Īlso. It was Non-Profit, so it wouldn't have been digging into Hasbro's pockets in any way, and if anything it would've been free advertisement for FiM and expanded their pretty massive fan base even further.

According to the site's blog post, various legal measures have been considered and enacted, but for now the team must comply with the order. I've always been a big fan of protecting creative and intellectual property, but this decision confuses me. As per a note on Mane6's website, the team behind Fighting is Magic- the in-development, non-profit fighting game based on Friendship is Magic- has received a cease and desist letter from Hasbro's lawyers. Hell, I'm not even angry, I'm just more or less baffled. (I sign political petitions all the time) I went and signed the petition! Its not very often I feel moved enough to actually sign something like this regarding media.