I saw a prediction, r/starcitizen_refunds I think? They will soft launch sometime in the near future to settle the refund issue once and for all while releasing a statement to the effect of ‘the game is never truly done - we shall continue to add to the grand vision’ while continuing to sell spaceships.
It’s not that hard to predict, really. They are aiming for a MVP after all.
Oh man…if they do that…holy hell…
So, uh… what’s the status of Squadron 42?
No one knows.
That includes CIG, I suppose. ;)
Lantz
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They announced last winter that they would be releasing a schedule for it in December. They then said that it was slightly delayed but would be out shortly. It has not been released yet at all. The schedule that is.
That they can’t release a schedule that they promised 4+ months ago for the game that they claimed that they were going to release years ago is probably the only data point you need.
dsmart
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That’s old news. The soft launch - aka early access which croberts talked about last year - was the 12/23/17 launch of the much maligned 3.0. They have since stopped giving refunds.
dsmart
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The judge denied CIG’s motion for a protective order to stay discovery. Thread
For those laymen amongst us, what does that mean?
Lantz
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It basically means nothing for basically everyone.
The court suggested that CIG&Crytek start discovery early but has not ordered a schedule for discovery.
CIG filed a motion to delay discovery until after their Motion to Dismiss is decided on.
The Court basically said that their motion is meaningless because there has not been a schedule for the discovery so there is nothing to delay.
I don’t know if the Judge will be annoyed down the road that CIG is delaying when the Judge suggested they get started and what that might impact, but as far as spectating this lawsuit this ruling doesn’t matter at all.
dsmart
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Agreed. It wasn’t supposed to do anything other than enable CIG to continue delaying the process with frivolous filings. Good thing is that the judge’s order suggests that they now have her attention going forward. So we’ll see if they try to pull similar delay tactics down the road.
Thing is that Crytek did start discussions (it’s in their response to the PO filing) with CIG about a scheduling for discovery. CIG resisted. THEN they went and filed the PO which basically gave them 6 (they filed it on Mar 9th) weeks of nothing to do/comply while waiting for the judge’s ruling.
Thrag
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As someone who hears that acronym all too much at work I got a laugh out of that.
I’m not sure they comprehend the “minimum” and “viable” elements of an MVP.
Scotten
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So I have no horse in this race but love me a little PC game drama…
I read through the lawsuit and read much of the content on Dr. Smart’s website but I’m not sure I understand what’s going on here. Crytek is suing CIG because CIG used another (or different) engine ingame despite the contract between the two parties? And if I’m summarizing this correctly… why did CIG do this?
The only ones who really knows are the squirrels remote controlling Chris Roberts.
Or Possibly his space door, i’m assuming it is sentient.
I thought part of the problem was that they used the engine for two distinct games as well, or was that part not important?
dsmart
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Maybe this will help. It’s all in chrono order, complete with commentary (in layman terms) for all to understand.
Yes, it’s dumpster fire.
http://www.dereksmart.com/forum/index.php?topic=127.0
dsmart
6475
Crytek is alleging 5 things
Crytek fucked up the language (but then, it was (partly?) written by a co-founder of CIG, so hilarity is ensuing), and CIG claims said fuck up allows it to suffer no consequences for abandoning the contract and switching engines in 2016 (the later event has rather dubious believability, IMHO) and that it allowed it to start SQ42 as a separate game.
Those are the main points of contention, but it’s far from all claimed infringements: there’s proprietary code that was shown on streams and non-competes. It’s a mess for a layman to make any sense of, but I have a feeling they will regret some of the statements in their fillings.
Scotten
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So I’ll put this here for me and anyone else (copy and pasted from your site). Thanks.
From my reading of it, it boils down to a simple claim: they switched engines to avoid paying CryTek their share of over $170m in revenue.
