Oh, goddammit.

@GargantuanBass  
pfffffft

YOU FUCKER
 
YOU FUCKER
 
YOU JINXED IT YOU FUCKER

By the way, this trademark is useless. Trademarks are meant to protect the customers, not companies. Trademark is essentially worthless if it does not meet either of the two criteria:  
1: It does not indicate the origin of the product. In this case, it is not the name of any company.  
2: The quality of the products under trademark is too inconsistent. In this case, character development and gameplay mechanics cannot have a consistent and objective quality to them.

@OP: troll harder

@Putinforgod  
No, thats not it either.

Legends of Equestria maybe?

Thing is Fighting is Magic can be ahem, leaked, by some “ruffian” whereas MLPOnline really can’t

@Background Pony  
No, it was a mmo game.  
Not MLP Online and not ponykart.  
I can’t remmber the name.

@PwnyPony  
That was the mario kart looking thing, right?

Apparently they took down the MLP MMO because they were planning on releasing a similar product. I doubt Hasbro will make an MLP fighting game so this might be fair play

Really doubting that. Hasbro would have already stepped in about it by now especially with Fight is Magic’s notoriety.

@gg666  
No, that was a different game.

The man in white is OP

mlp online actually went down due to infighting with the team

This is the same shit with the names switched around.

Background Pony = Duck  
SHARED FATE

I doubt Fighting is Magic is going to get shut down. It’s been even shown at EVO with no objections.

There is a very obvious difference here, which offers a very obvious solution:
 
MLP Online was the sort of game that required a persistent company presence in order to function (I assume). Someone had to operate the game servers for the persistent online world etc.
 
But Fighting Is Magic doesn’t require that sort of continual support, as it should be able to function as a peer-to-peer program or via local user instituted client-server connections rather than a central server.
 
Thus, the clear solution here is for Fighting Is Magic to publicly “shut down operations” (wink wink) - and continue development in secret. No one gets sued or injunct..ed, and once the game is finished, it can be released. And once it’s released, it’ll be impossible to get rid of. Problem solved.

@441TheSecond  
mlp online never tried to make money as fas as i know so point B is the more probable, also hasbro had to claim the rights otherwise they ll just lose it…
 
here they explain why they had to shut down …and if i got it right, thats what going to happen…yea i hate those laws too…

@441TheSecond  
Because Hasbro totally cares about brony PR.

I highly doubt Fighting is Magic is going to get canned by Hasbro, they’ve kept relatively down-low, their project is nearly finished without any complains from executives so far, and I don’t think a silly freeware fighting game is worth Hasbro the PR loss.  
MLP Online was probably shot down because they either A:Tried to draw a profit in some way, B:Tapped into something Hasbro might want to tap later.

I think he’s implying that there should be online playability
 
Which I agree with since playing fight games locally is always hard to pull off for some folks.

. . . Yeah. . That’s probably going to happen.