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Eurogamer: Bethesda suing Warner Bros. over Westworld mobile game containing Fallout Shelter code.
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This is actually where Bethesda Montreal came from. After having Behavior make Fallout Shelter, they poached 40 staff members from the company to start the new studio.
It's weird to me that they didn't sue Ubisoft though given Ubisoft hired Behavior to make an Assassin's Creed version of the same thing.
It's weird to me that they didn't sue Ubisoft though given Ubisoft hired Behavior to make an Assassin's Creed version of the same thing.
Saw the commercial for the Westworld game. Initial thought was: "Fallout Shelter clone? Meh."
Who would've thought that it could literally be a copy.
Who would've thought that it could literally be a copy.
Can you not make a horror themed multiplayer game without being involved in a lawsuit directly or indirectly?
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They're probably going to argue that it's their standard studio technology and not stuff they wrote for Fallout Shelter specifically.
They are in the suit as well. WB is in the suit because if it's true, they're the ones making the money off of Bethesda's code, whether they knew it or not.
"Haha jokes on you Bethesda, we were reusing code funded by someone else to make Fallout Shelter even. Shit started way before you guys. ;)"
I mean, that might not be the worst idea if they want a settlement, since it potentially opens ZeniMax to litigation for code theft on the same basis that ZeniMax is suing Warner Bros, and there's a heck of a lot more Fallout Shelter revenue to lose than Westworld.
Must have been something in their contract about Bethesda completely owning all of the code, which is strange to me. I worked for a "work for hire" developer for 12 years, making games for many of the biggest publishers, and every game we made was based on the code from the previous game, regardless of which publisher that game was for. I mean, we upgraded our game engine with each new game, we weren't going to throw away that progress. Though to be fair, I can't think of any time we had two successive games be very similar, except when they truly were sequels.
Do Bethesda sell games on Uplay? If they do maybe they don't want to sue and potentially burn any bridges with them.
Things are going South for Westworld. If you see someone using another game's code, Warna Bethesda
I love how companies think they can still get away with shit these days. 9 times out of 10 you are caught out if you do anything wrong. Why take the risk?
Sounds like a big fuckup on Behavior's part. Is Warner Bros only liable because they own behavior? Is this like that episode of Silicon Valley where Dinesh makes a massive legal fuckup and wiggles his way out of it by selling his company to Hooli?
Oh yeah, for sure. They leave hundreds of bugs in because they're playing 4d chess.
It's amazing that they didn't just start over on the WestWorld thing and instead relied on the Bethesda codebase, the core concept is not exactly hard to copy.
I do wonder how much Warner knew about this and how they will reapond to this, if it turns out that the studio really reused Bethesda's code.
I do wonder how much Warner knew about this and how they will reapond to this, if it turns out that the studio really reused Bethesda's code.
