They're not actually going to try and succeed with this, are they? There's less than zero effort into any "settlement", it's just bullshit and hubris from Wardell. Each one of those points just makes me fume more and more. Argh.
Yeah, I guess at this point any good will is gone from both parties. Plus the more outrageous demands laywers start with the easier it is to scale back and still come off with something satisfactionary in court.
Flyinj was making fun of Wardell's excuse that he shouldn't be blamed since he has nothing to do with the lawsuit. Even though his company hired the lawyers and presumably told them this was an ok approach.
Lol. Paul and Fred have been wanting to do a true sequel to their game for years. They've been tied up with Skylanders, but now that's on ice they're going ahead with it. You have a pretty skewed perspective here.
Oh, good. I was afraid he was a Wardell shill or something. Guess my sarcasm detector is off today.
I recall stardock had a bad reputation well before that. During their windowsblinds days.
I was honestly floored when I saw he'd noted down how to use the MOD/music tracker to make his own music. Obviously that didn't happen in the end (unless there are short ditties still in the game), but you're right in that it shows just how much detail, thought and planning went into it.
I think without any of this bullshit it could've been ruled out as vaporware. I could honestly see them getting the ball rolling and maybe going through with a Kickstarter after basic plans, proofs-of-concept are knocked out.
An aggressively litigious race of aliens who level ludicrous charges at you in order to shake you down for resource units or ship parts whenever you enter their space would be perfect for Star Control.
Hasn't polygon been boycoting Origins? Maybe that's the plan - raise shitstorm so that polygon will have to write about it ;)
It'd throw the entire system of copyright for any collaborative work into utter chaos - if that part of the legal proceedings somehow flies in court, I think Wardell is going to make a lot of enemies (there are a lot of vested interests who rely on the current status quo of copyright or outright strengthening it as much as possible even to the detriment of everyone else), nevermind the inevitable campaign to retroactively nullify the decision via legislation.
Don't feel bad, you weren't to know! I did get a little saddened when I saw that in one of the blurbs for Origins, though :(
What are the chances of a dev winning a lawsuit over a forum in a case like this?
No idea, probably low, but threats of legal action from a guy with money, delusions of righteousness and a history of hairtrigger litigation are often enough. Apparently you're not allowed to even say his name at brokenforum lol https://brokenforum.com/index.php
