Who recalls the ‘Saga’ dispute that happened between King and the developers Stoic, who were making a game called The Banner Saga? It was earlier this year and get quite a bit of coverage throughout the gaming media, including our own.

Eventually the two parties came to a settlement, although the terms of it are not publicly known although Stoic have said that they got everything they wanted out of the deal. They’ve also since revealed that at the time they were planning to fight King’s bid to block them using Saga in their game’s title, they had considered Kickstarting their legal counsel.

They responded to a question from a developer on Reddit by saying that “we felt that we had a strong enough presence on Kickstarter that if worse came to worse we could run a campaign to raise the funds to fight it and would probably get the money rather quickly.”

And indeed they already had a strong fanbase that had backed their game previously, even before the media attention came to the case and covered it. “thankfully the whole gaming community came to our aid arguing on behalf of us on the web. If you’re a small company with little following and you don’t get the large media companies and gaming community behind you it may not wind up as well.”

In the end it worked out well for Stoic, who notes that the coverage probably made the game a lot wider known in the community than it had been before.