All Crytek's fault ?? CIG had no part to play ??? Hmmmm.......
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So SC isn't running on LY anymore (if it ever was)? Has it been ported back to CE, using the fresh license they got from the Crytek lawsuit?
Anyways the joke keeps on giving.
Its now called Open Game Engine or something. They probably should put that logo there in place of the Lumberyard one. But maybe CIG will keep it off until Amazon spot it and remind them the new logo should be displayed (if its a requirement, would be surprising if it wasn't).
For what I know, the whole problem was Crytek trying to get money with the "2 games" story while SC + SQ42 were specifically written in the contract.
The logo is gone because CIG doesn't need the LY license anymore. You'll never see a public launcher of a big game without the logo of the engine used when it's a requirement. The logo was intentionnaly removed, not gone by magic. And they don't need also the CE license too because they don't display the CE logo.
Perhaps one day they will put a "StarEngine" logo in the launcher
If that were the "Whole" problem as you stated and it was the clear cut ... Why would Crytek have gone after CIG?
As I heard it, Crytek backed down because after their discovery and inspite of what CIG was telling everyone, they found that CIG was nowhere close to releasing two games and consequently their case had no merit at that time
The switch to Lumberyard was Chris and Company’s attempt to renege on their contract with Crytek while retaining the work they’d already done.
I’d use the “Why not both” meme, but the lawsuit falls squarely on their shoulders as well. Their contract with Crytek was already lopsided in their favor, thanks to Ortwin, one of CIG’s senior leadership, also representing Crytek during the negotiations. CIGs leadership deciding they could violate their contract with Crytek without consequences falls squarely under that category as well… not to mention utterly unethical.
Yes, basically a plague on both their houses.
But it started with CIG/RSI/whatever trying to renege on a contract so they didn't have to pay what they had agreed.
That's not what CIG said.
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No, a lot of money and time wasted because Ci¬G tried to swindle Crytek out of a license fee...let's not rewrite history again, please
I'd vote for both of them there
Let's not forget greed. We may never know exactly how much money the Roberts Clan as siphoned out of this project via Hollywood Accounting, but if their UK holdings (which are legally required to divulge information) are any indication, it's around 10%.
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For sure the story written here was not the same I've read in other places. But we will not start this again, this chapter is closed.No, a lot of money and time wasted because Ci¬G tried to swindle Crytek out of a license fee...let's not rewrite history again, please
The interviews of 2016/2017 were full of promises. But several years after, a dev said that the core of the engine was so much modified that they couldn't push LY updates in it. I think they had used some of the tools given in the LY package such AWS or some editor, but the LY engine itself post CE fork seems to not have been used by CIG.
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Any chance of a link to the source of that "a dev said" ? I am genuinely interested.
The logo is gone because CIG doesn't need the LY license anymore. You'll never see a public launcher of a big game without the logo of the engine used when it's a requirement. The logo was intentionnaly removed, not gone by magic. And they don't need also the CE license too because they don't display the CE logo.
Perhaps one day they will put a "StarEngine" logo in the launcher
Yes, but you miss my point.
I'm suggesting that maybe they should have replaced the Lumberyard logo with this logo
They are not using this engine, why should they display this logo ?
The are using the CE/LY engine before the fork by Amazon.
We FUDsters never close any chapters!
So were those in 2018 and 2019.
Only really as we get towards the end of 2020 does it change to "It will be done when its done"... which doesn't excatly inspire confidence either.
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Ah, good point!
Having said that, its actually a CryEngine license they bought due to the settlement. But maybe they are not obliged to display that logo even though it is CryEngine base.
Its really weird. Normally there should be a logo on there no matter how much you've modified it. Not only due to license arrangements but it also lets players know what its built on.
So, they dumped their partnership with Amazon (presumably due to the engine change, but are still using the "Lumberyard" (aka Amazon) services (for now at least) and perhaps not obliged to use the CE logo.
So it makes it look like they have their own engine.
Now, let's roll with the idea that they have modified it so much that its no longer really CE/LY at all.
Let's take a trip down memory lane to 2012-2014 when people were suggesting a custom engine might have been the better choice, and the Crytek/CIG fanboys were saying no, it would be too much effort, better to use CE!
That's kind of funny.