[ QUOTE ] Hardly making their own engine, more like stealing U3 tech. [ QUOTE ] (4) Silicon Knights may alter the Engine without restriction (7) the game engine developed by Silicon Knights is totally independent of the Unreal Engine 3 and therefore is the sole property of Silicon Knights, or, alternatively, the game…
I wonder - is a class action lawsuit something that could happen from this? Are they even ABLE to happen with this sort of situation? Where all the companies that license the engine file suit together...?
The Valve/Q2 thing wasn't as big a deal as this crap is. I remember it more like valve asked ID to let them re-brand the engine they cooked up using Q2 as a base. Provided they proved they changed enough code. I think ID was developing Q3 and said knock yourself out, and let them do it. Later valve removed/rewrote the Q2…
Wasn't what Microsoft released in 05 everything they needed to bring a game to the 360. But what they are fussing over is the code release that came after GoW? Which was just a bunch of improvements to the MS 05 release. I could be wrong. Sonic, 8 years of development costs and several engine changes... I'm not saying you…
It's strange that companies license an engine in development from a company they view as a competitor, knowing Epic will produce successful titles with its own toolset. I hope I'm selected for jury duty on this one. ^_^
I really hope for Epic that these claims are not true . There are many many good game engines out there now . This would not only hurt there current business but future efforts would be seriously affected if not completely abandoned .
i'm of the mind that the Unreal engine now is one of the most widely licensed engines out there, and many many successful titles have been released on the 2 codebase and now plenty have arrived/will soon arrived based on UE3. maybe there's a special agreement to deliver features or what have you for SK, but if they're in…
[ QUOTE ] why would they do that? .. so only one would be held responsible of any claims favored to silicon knights? [/ QUOTE ] No, so that a separate company won't use licensing money for anything but support for the engine the money is being paid out for. It would be one thing if Epic said, pay our license fee, and you…