Virtual Captain posted:

"Defendants deduce that Crytek sues out of: wounded
pride resulting from Defendants' move from CryEngine to Lumberyard; rapacity
toward the crowdfunding amounts raised by Defendants to develop and produce the
products; hope that filing this lawsuit will cause Defendants so much distraction and
legal expense that they would rather pay Crytek, a company that has experienced a
significant financial downturn in the last several years, a much-needed infusion of
capital to make the lawsuit go away; and resentment over the fact that many of its
employees abandoned Crytek which could not afford to pay them."

Whaaaa-HAHAHAHAHA

big nipples big life posted:

They're hosed. 90 Days. Tops.

Warhawk109 posted:

“I just gave it a brief skim. The argumentative portions by the defendants annoy me but that doesn't mean anything about the merits of the case, which I know nothing about.”

iospace posted:

What exactly is the AMD letter again?

Hav posted:

'Tone' is thing. Your previous comment had it right, and I believe someone else commented that it's _whiney_ in the extreme, and hides behind the lack of ability of counsel to 'understand'. Discovery will be proctological.

iospace posted:

What exactly is the AMD letter again?

In the last thread, TheAgent, quoting an AMD dude, posted:

We're partnered with them [CIG], of course. We are. It's four months before E3 and we're getting our PC showcase set up. We're reaching out to get demos, sizzle reels, all kinds of different promo stuff. We hear back from a lot of people; there's some new stuff, new games, new partners, all that. Absent is a response from CIG.

Someone else here handles all that, she's calling and calling thinking there's some mistake or she's not getting through to the right people. It's now three months until the PC Gamer showcase and there's nothing on the table from CIG. She's trying to set up a conf call or a face to face with CIG and there's nothing solid set up.

She finally talks to someone over there and is assured we'll get a slice of scripted gameplay and some cutscene stuff with the big name A listers on the project. E3 is what, six weeks away? Maybe seven at this point.

A week later what we get a package with a disc, no explanation, table of contents, nothing. On it, there's nothing new, [its] a mashup of all their previous trailers. It's not even cut differently. We have the Hamil one, the Oldman speech, some fighters shooting things and some FPS segments that were lifted straight out of the last con they did. They're all just dumped into a "Promo" folder on a blu-ray.

She's thinking this is a mistake, they sent us the wrong material -- easy mistake to make, you throw in an old disc instead of the one you just cut, it got handled differently, an intern misunderstood what we wanted, whatever. So she calls them up again, no response, emails, nothing.

Two weeks later we get what is referred to around here as the "Letter." Capital "L" letter. The email is addressed to everyone high up at AMD, not even the gaming guys but the chip designers and the heads of departments. The PDF attachment is a rambling statement from Chris about how we're pushing him into something he doesn't think is necessary, he has a vision and that it's "too important" to be disrespected like this.

The decision was made to drop them from the show after that. Probably from our partnership as well, but that's above my head.

Lladre posted:

So, CiG wan't to deal and the other side is like gently caress off?
Won't that annoy the judge who would rather not have this thing on their docket if it doesn't have to be?
(As in they never want anything on their docket, not this particular case)

Hav posted:

July *2019*


'Tone' is thing. Your previous comment had it right, and I believe someone else commented that it's _whiney_ in the extreme, and hides behind the lack of ability of counsel to 'understand'. Discovery will be proctological.

Lladre posted:

So, CiG wan't to deal and the other side is like gently caress off?
Won't that annoy the judge who would rather not have this thing on their docket if it doesn't have to be?
(As in they never want anything on their docket, not this particular case)

peter gabriel posted:

This is exactly what I hoped for lol

will u take money to go away plz?
NO gently caress YOU!

Thoatse posted:

Foo Diddley posted:

I haven't followed Elite too closely, but when exactly did they promise all that FPS poo poo?

Thoatse posted:

Virtual Captain posted:

There is a clip floating around of Braben saying something like 'maybe you'll be able to walk around your ship or station'

maybe its this? 68:04 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhsH5U7tz4A&t=4084s


Calling Elite 0% complete because they didn't include space legs. lol

Nicholas posted:

It's probably not that Crytek doesn't want to settle. Rather, they aren't ready to state the terms of their settlement before going through the discovery process, particularly the financials.

peter gabriel posted:

This is exactly what I hoped for lol

will u take money to go away plz?
NO gently caress YOU!

Foo Diddley posted:

"Way off in the future", "effectively a whole new game", "a long way off"; all promises that space legs will be in at release

Scruffpuff posted:

CIG: How much will it take to make this lawsuit go away?
Skadden: How much you got?
CIG: We're asking you how much you want to settle.
Skadden: And I'm askin' you how much you got...

Virtual Captain posted:

There is a clip floating around of Braben saying something like 'maybe you'll be able to walk around your ship or station'

Beet Wagon posted:

Beer's the originator of the no amine rule but in his stead I will say.... no, Streetfighter II is not anime.

hot balls man no homo posted:

So we have to wait until july of 2019 for a trial? It's all good. That means CIG gets a year and a half of struggling to crap out working modules and half-assed demos at cons. That means that CIG can still completely implode on their own without someone else to blame their demise on. That means that the most incompetent bunch of crooks to ever launch a Kickstarter has lots of time to commit even more financial crimes and legal shenanigans to try to cover up said crimes. Now that they're on a clock, they're going from maintenance mode to evacuation mode

big nipples big life posted:

I didn't say when the 90 days started.

Nicholas posted:

after crytek sues CIG into oblivion, i mean.

cat tax:

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