How WeMade was formed

[Far]

I was just looking a wikipedia (as you do) and came across the wemade site saying this,

WeMade was founded on February 10, 2000, by the original Legend of Mir developers. They chose the name WeMade Entertainment to acknowledge a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by their Korean publishing partner Actoz against the Chinese game operator Shanda. Shanda had copied Legend of Mir under the name The World of Legend, prompting the lawsuit. In choosing their company name, the developers were making the point that “We made Legend of Mir”. Shanda settled the lawsuit by acquiring Actoz and operating it as Shanda Korea.

This isn't factual right? How could wemade (the initial creators of mir) only come up with the name 'wemade' AFTER mir was created, and then copied by Shanda.

The way of how 'wemade' came so named sounds plausible. Am i just getting my history in the wrong order? Was Shanda formed before the release of mir?

 

[Skyline]

Well I thought Shanda's mir came out after the original one. But that would make no sense of this story.

 

[MiloFoxburr]

Yeah that's not right..

From what I know Actoz made the first Legend of Mir, then licensed out the name to Wemade for the sequel. Shanda got permission to run Mir 2 in China but probably ran into the same issues that Game Network did (Lack of updates etc) so created Woool. Wemade sued but by then Shanda was huge so they bought a stake in Actoz and gained permission to use the Legend of Mir name however they wanted. Case got dropped Shanda started updating Mir lots. They might own Actoz fully by now but I think it's only a controlling stake.

From what I know they're all 'friends' now. Hence how Wemade has Heroes and Shanda took over the running of the Chinese Mir 3 servers.

 

[Tai]

Was Shanda formed before the release of mir?

yes