Star Citizen

[undercovergeek]

Why would your dreams be crushed? It's just another lawsuit. While I haven't reviewed the pleadings or the potential merit, I highly doubt it will impact the future of star citizen.

Unless crytek say you can't use our engine anymore or you can be want loads more money and that will be KS money?

[Jarhead0331]

Why would your dreams be crushed? It's just another lawsuit. While I haven't reviewed the pleadings or the potential merit, I highly doubt it will impact the future of star citizen.

Unless crytek say you can't use our engine anymore or you can be want loads more money and that will be KS money?

They are not using their engine anymore. They switched to Lumberyard.

[Destraex]

Why would your dreams be crushed? It's just another lawsuit. While I haven't reviewed the pleadings or the potential merit, I highly doubt it will impact the future of star citizen.

That is somewhat comforting. Considering your previous (or current?) vocation.
Let's hope they don't win much of our development money!

[Jarhead0331]

Why would your dreams be crushed? It's just another lawsuit. While I haven't reviewed the pleadings or the potential merit, I highly doubt it will impact the future of star citizen.

That is somewhat comforting. Considering your previous (or current?) vocation.
Let's hope they don't win much of our development money!

Well, that is a separate issue. I haven't read the license agreement that Crytek is alleging has been breached by CIG. There could very well be a monetary component to the claim, I just don't see a court issuing a permanent injunction that would shut down development. Its hard to say at this point, but this is the kind of lawsuit that gets settled. As of right now, I don't see there being any immediate impact upon development. I'll try to follow this one...thanks for posting about it.

[undercovergeek]

Why would your dreams be crushed? It's just another lawsuit. While I haven't reviewed the pleadings or the potential merit, I highly doubt it will impact the future of star citizen.

Unless crytek say you can't use our engine anymore or you can be want loads more money and that will be KS money?

They are not using their engine anymore. They switched to Lumberyard.

Not an expert on the matter but I understood lumberyard to be cryengine in all but name

Also crytek say they have seen lines of code that are specifically cryengine

[Jarhead0331]

Why would your dreams be crushed? It's just another lawsuit. While I haven't reviewed the pleadings or the potential merit, I highly doubt it will impact the future of star citizen.

Unless crytek say you can't use our engine anymore or you can be want loads more money and that will be KS money?

They are not using their engine anymore. They switched to Lumberyard.

Not an expert on the matter but I understood lumberyard to be cryengine in all but name

Also crytek say they have seen lines of code that are specifically cryengine

That is possible. I'm hardly an expert either. I just remember CIG making a pretty noticeably issue about an engine switch from Crytek to Lumberyard. Not sure how that could potentially impact the claim.

[Destraex]

I was more referring to any damages awarded crippling development.

[Jarhead0331]

This video contains CIG's initial public response to the complaint.

[Rayfer]

A short article from Rock/Paper/Shotgun regarding the lawsuit.   https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/12/14/star-citizen-lawsuit/#more-502207

[Jarhead0331]

For the curious, $75,000 is mentioned as the minimum amount of damages sustained by Crytek because that is the jurisdictional threshold to bring the claim in Federal court.

[Destraex]

Well I hope they deal with it quickly. Because otherwise it's going to put a real spectre hanging over the game.

[Yskonyn]

Well I hope they deal with it quickly. Because otherwise it's going to put a real spectre hanging over the game.

I think the game already has a spectre over it. That is, if I know what spectre means. 😜

[Destraex]

What does spectre mean?

[Staggerwing]

What does spectre mean?

SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion. Real baddies, them. 


Oh, and it also means 'ghost' or 'apparition'.

[Destraex]

 It's funny. Amazon seems to have purchased the cryteck engine in 2015 outright. Lumberyard which star citizen is now using seems to be a crytek based engine.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/02/09/amazon-lumberyard-cryengine-twitch/