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Emily Gera
Sunday, January 19, 2020 23:24 GMT
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As the long legal battle continues, the developers of Star Citizen are fighting back against Crytek.
As our friends at Eurogamer have discovered, Cloud Imperium Games claims that Crytek's latest attempt to dismiss their suit is because "Crytek can no longer inevitably consider its claim to be and has been baseless." The new court The documents were submitted on January 17.
The studio believes: "This is not a case of a sensible plaintiff withdrawing early."
"Rather, this is a study of abuse of litigation and publicity. For all of the above reasons, the court should dismiss without affecting the remaining two Crytek claims. If the court is unwilling to do so, the court should The SQ42 claim was dismissed: (a) CIG Attorneys' fees and fees of $ 500,000 paid by Crytek will be paid from the security deposit; (b) the letter of credit claim was cancelled in a biased manner. "
According to legal documents, the creators of CryEngine sought to dismiss the lawsuit against Star Citizen developers for the first time earlier this month, suggesting that the studio is trying to reschedule the trial to 42nd Squadron, which is expected to start on October 13.
Last year, Crytek first sued CIG for breach of contract, when the studio was said to have started developing the two products, but was only licensed to develop one product. Cloud Imperium Games said at the time that it had switched its Squadron 42 from CryEngine to Amazon's Lumberyard engine.
Crytek said at the time: "This case is marked by the CIG model, saying one thing in the public statement and another in this lawsuit." "For example, at the beginning of the case, CIG publicly claimed that it had The Lumberyard Engine was applied to Star Citizen and Squadron 42 but was forced to confirm that no such conversion had occurred during the lawsuit.
"If CIG releases the Squadron 42 as an independent game, the situation will be exactly the same as it currently is. In short, allowing Crytek to voluntarily dismiss now is nothing more than allowing Crytek's 42nd Squadron to mature so that all parties can fully complete in one process Settle disputes with each other. Such an outcome would undoubtedly be beneficial to both the courts and the parties. "
Crytek must now respond to CIG's response by February 7.