I can’t believe that you are talking about hair when the real bombshell is that they think that it will only take two months to do the dress uniforms.
It took the US Army years to decide on and roll out their new uniforms!
This game is still an amazing phenomenon. It’ll milk the money out of every naive PC gamer before it dies a miserable death. Still keeps on giving memes after all these years.
Crytek and CIG have settled and moved to dismiss the suit.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6256484/126/crytek-gmbh-v-cloud-imperium-games-corp/
In accordance with this Court’s Order (ECF No. 124) and Federal Rule of Civil
Procedure 41(a)(1)(A)(ii), Plaintiff CRYTEK GMBH and Defendants CLOUD
IMPERIUM GAMES CORP. and ROBERTS SPACE INDUSTRIES CORP., by and
through their counsel of record, jointly stipulate as follows:
(1) The dismissal with prejudice of this Action; and
(2) Each party is to bear its own respective attorneys’ fees and costs.
And that’s that for that part of the saga.
Eagerly awaiting Derek’s prompt analysis.
Maybe because it’s all in my Twitter and Facebook feeds?
Yeah pretty much. After it was proven beyond a shadow of doubt that the project was dead, couldn’t be made (with all the money in the world), was insolvent (hence a $46M bailout in Summer 2018) etc, I have otherwise just been sitting back and watch the rest of the shit-show unfold.
The fact that they settled with CryTek and paid them a lump of money (which they [CIG] didn’t have to spare), even as the lead bailout investor exercised his “Pennies on the Dollar” share option because those ass-clowns missed (shockingly) a performance milestone (SQ42 in Q1/2020 - that was back in 2018 btw when they got the $46m), then they missed (again!) on SQ42 and key Star Citizen tech (SSOCS) which I have written many a blog saying they simply couldn’t do (which is why they’re still stuck on ganky 50 instance shit-fest) it, has me now taking bets on how (not when, since that’s patently inevitable) much longer before the whales figure out they’ve been strip searched and screwed this whole time.
The project is undeniably dead. Chris and his friends & family cohorts are the only ones who gained because they’ve become millionaires during the course of this farce. There’s a reason that Chris, Sandy et al have been mostly absent this past year. Wait for what comes next. It’s beautiful. No, don’t ask me - I can’t talk about it yet.
Is Star Citizen getting married?
Yes, to Second Life.
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I’d honestly have doubts that Epic would be silly enough to chuck a spare penny off the street at this train wreck.
What will the children look like?
Er, what evidence is there to date there was actually a paid settlement with Crytek?
Or for that matter, that if there was, it was for a sum vastly in excess of the amount a second license to cover SQ42 might be worth (original GLA stipulated 1.8M euro when SC and SQ42 were ‘one game’)
I was wondering the same thing.
- It’s not a secret (at least not to those of us with friends on both sides of the party)
- A confidential settlement agreement notice was filed with the court. That generally means the parties want to keep the terms private or it would be public (as part of the case filings). If there weren’t anything in the terms which either party would be deemed to be private (e.g. settlement figure), there would be need or cause for a confidential agreement kept from the court (and thus the public). It’s not even filed under seal btw, which means not even the judge knows what the settlement agreement entailed.
The amount isn’t relevant in any respect. Note that both sides are paying their own legal bills; which is basically how these settlements are done. Further, if the disagreement was about (it wasn’t) about a mere licensing cost, with all the money CIG has access to, they would have paid it and moved on seeing as the lawsuit cost them in excess of a SQ42 license.
The bottom line is that, as we know from court filings, CIG started trying to settle the case from way back in 2018. That the most critical claims of the MtD failed (putting CIG on the hook for millions), coupled with the fact that (1) this legal cloud was hanging over the release of SQ42 in Q1/2020 (<---- lmao), as well as CIG admitting (I was right btw see my Irreconcilable Differences blog from 12/127/2016 in which I laid out my case in excruciating details) in Jan 2020 court papers (from discovery), and (2) they didn’t actually switch to Lumberyard, basically put CIG at greater risk if they released SQ42 with this case still on-going. The end result is that, rather than just buying a second license for SQ42, they spent over 2 years fighting a lawsuit which not only cost them in legal fees what they would have paid for a license, but also still having to fork out money to Crytek.
But hey, it was all free money from backers, so wth, right?
Bonus
Ha! Now that’s an exciting thought experiment!
My one experience with Second Life was more than a decade ago when our school was thinking about buying an island and creating a virtual campus. I spent an afternoon exploring and got an eye-opening education about what really goes on in Second Life. Based on that, any child of Second Life and Star Citizen would have some combination of these genes…
- huge gap between what the game says it delivers and what it really delivers
- game took forever to develop.
- SF elements
- game engine elements that are outdated at release
- lots of broken stuff
- sex
- highly customizable avatars
Let’s see…
Well, Duke Nukem Forever comes to mind, if you add in lots of sex workers and spaceship billboards.
I’m having flashbacks to the Star Control: Origins thread.
Oh well. I really do know what’s going on with this court case. But alas, I too am not allowed to speak about it. But it’s marvellous. Trust me. It’s amazing. Wish I could tell you folks.
It’s ok if you change the names of the parties and begin it with “A tale of fiction”, I won’t tell anyone.
Gah! There are two of you now?
You wouldn’t believe the actual situation, you would die laughing. Unfortunately my sources could be outed so I can’t share it until my lawyers clear it.