For those who haven’t done the homework on Skadden law firm.
“Mr. Sammi, as lead trial counsel, recently obtained a $500 million jury verdict for leading video game studio clients ZeniMax Media and id Software against Facebook subsidiary Oculus VR and its executives”
Also, 3 of the 4 listed attorneys were part of the Zenimax team (Sammi, Pak, Hemr)
Skadden was the premier mergers & acquisitions law firm when I did that stuff - dunno what their contracts practice is like but I assume it’s pretty robust.
Yes, I’ve dealt with Skadden. Top notch people. If the other side has engaged Skadden they are not messing around.
Oh man. Chris Roberts cannot possibly be sleeping well these days.
Mueller’s coming for him.
oh wait
I’m torn. On the one hand my unabashed schadenfreude is happy, on the other hand, I have lingering dislike and distrust of lawyers, even though every lawyer I’ve met, outside of one particular lawsuit involving me, has been really friendly and interesting.
If by some miracle this game ever gets released, it will never match the highly entertaining drama of its development process. We have the Derek saga, the ‘cofounder’ wife bitching at other women in the company because they had too much screen time, a cult-like community, stakes that go into hundreds of millions, the involvement of top Hollywood actors, and now a big copyright lawsuit. The only thing this train wreck is missing is someone mysteriously dissapearing.
Amazing!
My entertainment of the drama is sobered by the amount of money people are losing over this. My sympathy is limited because they’re just damn fools at this point, but I think that is true for a lot of ponzi schemes and the like.
I’m in the chat of this stream right now along with Derek and god… the cultism is real. Their entire line of argumentation revolves around bashing him and his games… and that’s it.
I think this whole thing is just an elaborate scam. I went to see if you can actually buy this thing and it will let you buy a ship and “credits”, but there is no actual game there. It said something about how you could look at ships and do some kind of arena. For $89.
Get the fuck outta here, Chris Roberts. All your Wing Commander karma is used up with this fraud.
The other thing that’s terrible is that Chris Roberts pretty much singlehandedly destroyed the idea of backing early funding/Kickstarter. His pedigree was top notch before this and no one else had the space game name recognition he had. Now if I see a famous game designer is making a new game I think “yeah, just like that Star Citizen train wreck” and pass until it’s retail and reviewed.
Pretty much if you can’t read a review of a game, don’t buy it.
It just occured to me, what’s the chance this gets used as an excuse to not show any SQ42 content on the upcoming anniversary stream? Crytek’s claim is that SQ42 was never licensed to use CryEngine (which happened the moment CIG decided to split it as a stand-alone product SKU. I can see CIG backing out of showing anything in the next few months under the cover of not being able to while responding Crytek’s claim.
The really fun thing is going to watch CIG try to explain how they cleanly broke away from CryEngine to Lumberyard. I know there are some doubts that this actually happened, but even if we assume they did indeed 100% switch to Lumberyard its’ going to be extremely hard to prove that they did a chinese wall re-implementation of all their CryEngine modifications into Lumberyard. It’s going to be really hard to prove that they did not take any CryEngine code and move it to Lumberyard, nor that they didn’t use CryEngine IP that they licensed when writing their custom code that they copy/pasted into the Lumberyard code base.
You will like my book then. It’s all in there.
The judge hasn’t ruled on the injunction, and CIG/RSI has 20 days to respond to the lawsuit. So no, there is no chance they skip from not showing the trailer they’ve been threatening.
Fucking lol! Sign up again to receive updates for something you already pledged for four years ago that you should have been receiving updates for all along. So transparent. So open.
Hey, big announcement! Sign up for minor announcements of this vaporware scam! Lol.
More likely they’re checking to see which backers are still paying attention, so they can squeeze them for more cash. :P
Yes. It’s hilarious that you find this odd. We’re used to this, man.
