I’m braced, I’m braced! Hurry, drop it like it’s hot otherwise I’ll have to do work.
My guess is confirmation of ToS changes coming as 3.0 ‘launches’ to the masses, rather than any impending financial woes.
My guess is Chris Roberts announces he will execute one backer in the street every day until the project is complete. You know, for morale.
Switching engines to avoid paying?
Edit: Attempting and attempting, that is.
A lot worse than that actually. The filing is now up on PACER.
Oh man, haha that’s hilarious that CIG didn’t think to buy two licenses to Crytek since they were distributing (and advertising) two stand alone games. And no one had enough business sense or legal sense to think “oh does our current license cover that?” Did they just think they bought an infinitely perpetual license?
This is all just an elaborate ARG that will result in leading the whales of Star Citizen to putting $250M into the Crycash ICO:
https://crycash.io/
You clearly don’t understand video game development.
It’s like https://www.cryptokitties.co/ except spaceships.
The SC “reality bubble” is one too many for me.
Just reply back to me on this thread when a)Roberts is Madoff’d, or b)Roberts is elected as Louisiana senator in 2018.
GG. What a bunch of stupid “mistakes”.
I kind of wonder how switching engines would legally work with whatever contract they signed, assuming a best effort. I know it’s not relevant, but I’m curious.
If this was a mistake, it would have been handled without all the drama as RSI could have done a mea culpa, pulled out their checkbook and said “let me make this right”. The fact that didn’t happen means they intentionally did what they did.
I would assume CIG is going to try to make the case that they are using Lumberyard now, which has no fees - even though it is probably demonstrable that they sort of aren’t. But if that’s the case it likely makes it even messier to untangle.
[edit] - after scanning the filing it appears that Crytek is specifically calling that out as their means of avoiding fees, and that this somehow breaches an existing contract? I don’t have time to dig too deep right now.
From the complaint, among other things, they claim that the agreement that the Crysis engine specifically would be used for the game. I obviously have no idea how that will hold up and who knows what termination clauses or something there could be, but it seems pretty likely from the filing that they have a strong case. Discovery would be amazing!
Section 2.1.2 of the GLA contained a critical promise from Defendants that they would not develop the Star Citizen video game using any other video game engines
CIG response. The standard “dindu nuffin’” kind
“We are aware of the Crytek complaint having been filed in the US District Court. CIG hasn’t used the CryEngine for quite some time since we switched to Amazon’s Lumberyard. This is a meritless lawsuit that we will defend vigorously against, including recovering from Crytek any costs incurred in this matter.”
Why can’t it just burn down? I just want it to end. It’s a fucking albatross at this point. Kill it with fire.
But it’s the albatross that lays the golden eggs! Well, for someone I’m sure.