What's with WASHINGTON AIRPORT in the raid trailer? It's called REAGAN WASHINGTON | Forums

[born2kill 2099]

WTF?



It's called Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (if I'm right about it being set at the airport to the immediate south of the city).

Since the first game, the designers/writers have made some downright mind-boggling choices with depicting publicly-owned real-world locations/organizations in the world of the Division. Some of it I understand - like calling Rikers Island a prison rather than a jail for the sake of narrative, and that FDNY and NYPD are protected trademarks - but federal agencies like FEMA and the CDC? Why switch them to CERA and DCD? Is FEMA seriously going to sue Ubisoft for using their name in the game? Or the Kennedy Center (Potomac Event Center) or the Smithsonian?

What's up with this? Who's going to sue Ubisoft for calling these places/organizations what they really are?

[PANDORA SIREN]

Who knows? I call it the good old DCA. My guess some branding or trademark issues.

[Zyklon-X]

Most likely because the airport is privately owned and / or the name is trademarked.

[TH3R4BB1T]

It is not a historical game like Assassin's Creed it on most parts, so the names do not matter. Some names are licenced or maybe they even asked if it may be used and got a no as answer. But any way it is all fictional, so gladly they took not all the real names to at to that thought.

[born2kill 2099]

To me it's like they might as well have called the White House the "Presidential Mansion" or the Capitol the "Legislative Assembly House"... I really doubt the federal government is in the business of suing entertainment producers for using their intellectual property without permission.

[born2kill 2099]

It's owned by the federal government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald...tional_Airport

[Disneyadventure]

Any of those copyrighted names are owed royalties when they are used in games or films or even novels.

Switching the name allows them to avoid paying out money.

It's not that they couldn't, they just don't want to pay to do it.

Some exceptions are made but I doubt one would be made for a fantasy video game.

Assassin's Creed may be able to get out of it but not the Division.

[born2kill 2099]

I can understand why there's Kerman Coffee but no Starbucks, or Jonn's Beer but no Budweiser. I also understand that FEMA and Reagan National's logos are copyrighted.

But their names? It's just bizarre.

[Jim_867_5309]

DCD instead of CDC.

[RichardOshea]

Apoliticism.