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Unreal Engine 3 Customers Subpoenaed

[Jan 24, 2008, 11:19 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

In other legal wranglings, Shacknews also reports that "multiple Unreal Engine 3 licensees have been served with subpoenas" related to Silicon Knight's lawsuit over Epic's support for the game engine (story). This is apparently an effort at digging into details of the contacts involved, which is normally confidential information, and it's possible that this could lead to this info becoming public. They have a quote from Epic's Mark Rein about this: "I'm leaving the litigation to the lawyers but, if this is the case, I'd like to apologize to any of our licensees who Silicon Knights have inconvenienced. We know that, like us, they just want to make great games."

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Jan 24, 2008, 17:50

The Magician

Some Dude, Does it matter what the difference is? Either way, it's promising someone something at a particular time, and then not delivering. IF Epic did do this, then they should at the very least, give SK their money back. IF Epic intentionally withheld completed, and promised, parts of the engine, so as to promote Gears of War while all the other engine devs needed that part to get on with their work, then all devs affected deserve part of the spoils from Gears of War. If you can't get an exact time that you WILL have something done, maybe you need to either give them a window, or try the Scotty principle: 1) Caluculate average required time for completion of given task. 2) Depending on importance of task, add 25-50% additional time to original estimate. 3) Report and commit to inflated time estimate with superiors, clients, etc. 4) Under optimal conditions the task is completed closer to the original time estimate vs. the inflated delivery time expected by those waiting.

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Comment [quote="The Magician"Jan 24, 2008, 17:50]Some Dude, Does it matter what the difference is? Either way, it's promising someone something at a particular time, and then not delivering. IF Epic did do this, then they should at the very least, give SK their money back. IF Epic intentionally withheld completed, and promised, parts of the engine, so as to promote Gears of War while all the other engine devs needed that part to get on with their work, then all devs affected deserve part of the spoils from Gears of War. If you can't get an exact time that you WILL have something done, maybe you need to either give them a window, or try the Scotty principle: 1) Caluculate average required time for completion of given task. 2) Depending on importance of task, add 25-50% additional time to original estimate. 3) Report and commit to inflated time estimate with superiors, clients, etc. 4) Under optimal conditions the task is completed closer to the original time estimate vs. the inflated delivery time expected by those waiting. [/quote]

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