Monolith CEO Jason Hall updated his .plan with a reluctant response to the most recent reply (story) to his most recent interview (story) stating that "there is no 'engine war,'" and that he is "just trying to answer interview questions as best as possible and as a separate task I'm trying to communicate information on LithTech and what we are doing with it." The update goes on to discuss how he will attempt to remove "potentially inflammatory comments" from future updates. Here's a bit:

Anyhow, the conclusion that I draw from this turn of events is that the aggressive nature of my approach has some people feeling "backed in" to a corner where their conversation has digressed into a mild character assassination of me, and I feel that now would be a good time to just step out of this whole debacle, as I don't have the time or will to defend against this stuff.

So, I apologize to this company for whatever it is/was that I have done to make them feel the need to proceed in this manner. I certainly did not intend to create such hostility. I feel that I have always kept the discussion to the relevant topics, and I feel that I've made valid and provable arguments that potential licensees can be the judge and jury on.

Everyone can rest assured that I will be spending EXTRA time tying to make sure that whatever further information we release is carefully screened for any potentially inflammatory comments. I thought we were already doing this, but some companies feel that I am specifically focused on them. I'm not.

I will do better in the future to remove any potentially perceived "slams" from my comments, but some companies have got to understand that everything that comes out of my mouth is not about them. If they can get past that, then there should just be smooth sailing from here.