CIG's Star Citizen Rebuttal to Crytek [Jan 19, 2020, 1:39 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Eurogamer reports on a new
court
document (which inspires a warning from Google, so use caution) filed by
Cloud Imperium Games in response to Crytek's recent
motion to dismiss their own lawsuit (thanks Korrd). The suit concerns whether
CIG properly licensed the CryENGINE for Star Citizen and Squadron 42, their
upcoming space games. Crytek asked the suit be dismissed without prejudice so it
can be reopened in the future. Cloud Imperium is seeking a dismissal with
prejudice, which would end the case for good and force Crytek to compensate them
for some of their legal costs. Here's some of Eurogamer's summary of the new
filing:
Following Crytek's motion to dismiss its own lawsuit, CIG has had its say, and in a strongly-worded court document moved to discredit Crytek's lawsuit. It described it as "meritless in light of CIG's separate licence with Amazon", and insisted GLA expressly grants CIG the right to use CryEngine and to develop Squadron 42.
CIG said in May 2019, Crytek "sheepishly and belatedly" emailed Amazon to ask if it had truly granted CIG a licence covering prior versions of CryEngine as well as Lumberyard. According to CIG, in that email, "Crytek conceded that an affirmative answer would likely tank its Squadron 42 claim." Amazon confirmed it licensed Lumberyard to CIG in 2016 - and that it included CryEngine in that licence.
"CIG's separate licence with Amazon operates as a complete defense against Crytek's remaining claims so they too never should have been brought," CIG says.
"Instead of acting responsibly even at that late moment, Crytek persisted, fought the bond motion, and dithered another seven months before bringing this motion."
Primalchrome wrote on Jan 20, 2020, 12:22:
I just want a Blues Post that says that Star Citizen is coming to Epic Games Store... I don't think the site could handle the level of salt that would generate.
CIG would consider doing that in a heartbeat, since epic offers a chunk of upfront cash to do it, and CIG would keep more of each sale. Plus, most serious fans already purchased stuff from them, so it's not like they are going to lose much exposure.
I hadn't thought about it, but now that I have, I'm just going to assume that's going to happen.
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