Silicon Knights makes motion to dismiss Epic counterclaim

haha looks like when my cats are going at it

Which Epic was still all too happy to sell to them.

Uh, UT3 is going to have gigantic, open maps. If they can do it, why can't SK?

Okay, so what about Fatal Inertia? Lost Odyssey? Mass Effect? I could go on and on, take a look at the list of games being developed using the unreal 3 engine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_engine#Unreal_Engine_3_2

Sure there are a lot of shooters, but there are plenty of other genres represented as well, and even the shooters are not all claustrophobic. No, they weren't oversold on the engines' capabilities... rather their team apparently doesn't have the talent that say Koei for example does (which is sad). If the talent of the team was directly proportional to the size of Dyack's ego, we'd be playing Too Human already. But honestly... I doubt many talented people would want to work with someone like him (at least based on the way he represents himself to the public, he can't be a fun boss to have) so I doubt the best of the best go to SK.

their engineers clearly suck, but it's far easier to point fingers than to man up and admit you blew it.

A0E, all 3 of those games suffered many delays due to developement problems. Coincidence? I think not.

I thought that in addition to buying a tool, you are also buying support of that tool. It is my understanding that it's the support (or lack thereof) that they are unhappy with.

It seems conceivable that SK got lossy support while other clients got good support.

Thats teh best pencil analogy evar...

Thats teh best pencil analogy evar...

PSX title in 99, then a GC title in 2002 and now a 360 title in never.

And then 2 sequels!

Fact of the matter, syco, Silicon Knights entire basis is going into the idea that Epic focused entirely on Gears Of War instead of UE3. Which is to say, false. Many developers have come forward and given the official stance on UE3 and it's usuages. As a licensee, you have completely free access to their FTP server which contains up to the minute revisions of of the UE3 that are not a sure thing when it comes to stability and access to a biweekly "stable" drop. Silicon Knights says, because Gears Of War was able to be finished and their own 1999 Cyberpunk Samurai magnum opus turned norse mythology game has so many issues, obviously it's not their fault and Epic neglected to support "Make Magic Awesome Happy Game Fucking Work" command in their API.

Now, an Engine is not a complete project. Never has been and never will be. Likewise, and Engine is a starting point, not a finishing point, which is what Dennis Dyack claims. After all, just because you buy ZBrush doesn't mean the developer has to make your artwork and frankly speaking, to test and expand an engine, you DO need a project to work on and Gears was that project. Whether SK admits it or not, all of the UE3 liscensees benefited from Gear because getting stuff to work right there got added into the engine they licensed. Just as UT3 will be benefitting UE3.

Now, having said that, there was already a large amount of work accomplished on Too Human before they licensed UE3 so who's to say it was Epic's fault on this engine and not SK shoving their own incompatible code into the game?

I forgot about the hatred toward the PS3 3 months after launch. I didn't even have one at the time of that post. I'm so glad I didn't listen to the haters.

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maybe i did start off a little shy... but i came into my own:

"Sony president says no 'immediate plans' for PS3 price cut
Joystiq

Jul 6th 2007 11:47AM i think they need to take a different strategy, actually. if they *raise* the price, they can reinforce the idea they've been driving home all along: that ps3 really is more powerful than its competitors, and that it's actually worth much more than they've been asking for it.

sony: you should raise the price of the ps3 at *least* 100$ so that the procrastinators will feel a sense of urgency and buy it immediately before it goes up again! after all, the ps3 is such an impressive piece of hardware... they're obviously short-changing themselves with this ridiculously low price point. it needs to go *up*. then maybe people will realize what a great deal it is!

a 100$ price increase is the best thing they could do to spur interest and make people finally realize the true POTENTIAL of the ps3!

-"superfan" tactics."

Still, after almost a year since the PS3 launch, almost everyone seems to hate the PS3.

It may be a good movie player and a good protein folder machine, but a suking gaming machine. Have fun with Lair and bad framrate multiplatform games, noobs.

Well, i had to switch accounts at the conversion to a password system (for some reason, at that point, it shortened my name from Mr. Khan to Khan, something about the "." probably, why its not there now)

So i wouldn't be able to find my first post, although it think it was made in June 2006

Only way i've changed is i've become more mild, many posters have toned down quite a bit. Yourself, Shagi, and Fernando are ideal examples

Looks like PS3 is going the way of the PSP to me. Proprietary bullshit forced on you, and nothing but ports.

And it shows >>
crashes,iffy mouse support uhg...

@Zippy, but it still is a best selling title that rocks, and looks garphically great, so as long as were having a load of fun playing does that matter?