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SAND0789 AT
07/19/07 07:49 PM It is amazing how many idiots here say "so, Unreal doesn't work lollerskates"
That is not what the lawsuit says. The lawsuit says that a version of Unreal was not delivered to SK by the date agreed upon in the license, even though a version that worked very well (see Gears E3 06) actually existed. They claim the reason Epic did not deliver something they owed and were capable of delivering was that they wanted their game to look the coolest.
Also, if you aren't too ignorant to read, you will see that SK claims to have dropped Unreal quite some time ago (I bet right around when they denied a rumor of doing so) and has been building the game on their own engine. Anything we've seen lately is on "their" engine.
The truly juicy part, which most of you tards are too ignorant to catch so I have to spell it out for you, is that they claim their SK engine is so different from Epic's that it is now their own property. But the very fact that they mention how it is different than Epic's implies that it is also similar, and probably started out as Epic's. Otherwise, they'd say they just built a game ground up.
So, let's assume this is all true. Epic was focused so hard on Gears that they said screw it to SK and giving them the working engine within the time alloted. At some point, SK said we're sick of sitting around with our thumbs in our asses, we are building an engine on top of this basic version that Epic licensed to us and that we have already done quite some work with. We made it different enough that we claim our version is now our engine, which can be sold perhaps. In addition, we want money for Epic not delivering on their promise and basically costing us a shitload of money.
If SK pulls this off, it would be a killer triple burn. They could get money they paid plus damages, plus avoid the royalty fee you must pay if you actually sell the game you licensed the engine to build, plus they end up with an engine of their own that they perhaps couldn't have made without the base that Epic gave them.
This could have nothing to do with reimbursement or the shitty service Epic gave them. It could be a way for them to try to fandangle their own engine by sorta copying Epic a bit.
This is mad juicy. I bet they confronted Epic a while ago like "we want our money back or we'll sue, we ain't using your shit anymore" to which Epic replied "**** off"
As far as the future of Too Human, they have shown it running since they allegedly dropped Unreal, so my guess is that it works just fine on the SK engine and is coming along. But, if Epic could prove the SK engine is too similar to Epic's, they could screw them back.
I am very interested in how this turns out.
I see your point about "using the engine differently".
