Lawsuit Royale: PUBG Corp. Sues Epic Games

[vmylo81]

You can't sue a company for producing the same type of game as you. No company has the exclusive rights to specific genres or play modes. If that was true then blizzard should have sued everyone that made diablo and overwatch clones, id should sue everyone that made quake deathmatch clones and so on.

 

[captaincharisma]

You can't sue a company for producing the same type of game as you. No company has the exclusive rights to specific genres or play modes. If that was true then blizzard should have sued everyone that made diablo and overwatch clones, id should sue everyone that made quake deathmatch clones and so on.

imagine how much money rockstar would make from GTA copying lawsuits if you could though

 

[Karadjgne]

Lawsuits over ephemeral concepts are a waste of time and energy and only leave a sour taste in the minds of the ppl who support the game, namely the gamers. But, if a little old lady can win suit against McDonalds because they never warned her that the coffee she just purchased was steaming hot, then I guess anything is possible.

 

[kuhndj67]

Lets take all the Marketing guys and Lawyers from the two companies and drop them on an island littered with weapons and meds... then surround the island with poison gas that slowly creeps inward - the last team standing wins the suit! (for a lot less money I'd wager)

 

[Karadjgne]

Oh I can do 1 better. Ever watch the movie Saw? 1st one out, alive, wins...

Should put a damper on frivolous lawsuits.

 

[Giroro]

Lawsuits over ephemeral concepts are a waste of time and energy and only leave a sour taste in the minds of the ppl who support the game, namely the gamers. But, if a little old lady can win suit against McDonalds because they never warned her that the coffee she just purchased was steaming hot, then I guess anything is possible.

That old lady didn't sue because the coffee was "steaming" hot. She sued because something sold as a beverage gave her 3rd degree burns on 6% of her body, which required 8 days in the hospital and skin grafts followed by two years of additional medical treatment. They even gave McDonalds the opportunity to settle and pay only the medical bills - but Mcdonalds refused.

So not exactly the same thing as PUBG complaining that Fortnite is purring out a more successful product. The only complaint PUBG might be able to have a real position on, is if Epic is refusing to let PUBG use certain features of the unreal engine, in an anti-competitive way.

 

[Karadjgne]

McDonald's didn't dump the coffee in her lap, she did. She sued over no warning label that it was steaming hot. It was the only way to win as once the coffee was handed over, it's no longer McDonald's responsibility. Regardless of how much she might have suffered. And there's absolutely no way she suffered 3rd degree burns, 2nd degree at absolute most. 3rd degree is charring.

 

[cryoburner]

She sued over no warning label that it was steaming hot.

Actually, there was a warning label on the coffee, but they claimed that it wasn't noticeable enough. : P Also, she was apparently trying to remove the lid from the coffee while holding it between her legs as a passenger in a car.

And there's absolutely no way she suffered 3rd degree burns, 2nd degree at absolute most. 3rd degree is charring.

Fourth-degree burns involve charring. Third-degree just means there was damage all the way through to the deepest layers of the skin, and could potentially result from extended contact with hot liquids. She was apparently wearing sweatpants that held the scalding liquid against her skin for an extended period, and I guess she didn't remove them right away.

I suppose I can see how a restaurant serving near-boiling liquids in disposable containers to people in cars through a drive-through window could be viewed as a bit negligent, but it is arguably the customer's fault when they are handling the product in a risky manner. I guess things like this could potentially have long-term advantages in encouraging companies to look into things like safer packaging design though.

Of course, the comparison to a company suing another company for making a similar product still seems like a bit of a stretch. : D

 

[alextheblue]

Lets take all the Marketing guys and Lawyers from the two companies and drop them on an island littered with weapons and meds... then surround the island with poison gas that slowly creeps inward - the last team standing wins the suit! (for a lot less money I'd wager)

(A pack of lawyers with briefcases are preparing to leap out of a perfectly good aircraft and/or flying bus.)

"Where we droppin', boys?"

 

[Karadjgne]

It's a frivolous lawsuit no matter which way you look at it. Pubg hit #1. Life was good. Except the game wasn't exactly great for optimize. Then because of the game engine and its mechanics, the cheats and hacks became prevalent to the point battleye was so tight, if you showed any lag or spike or sneeze, it booted you and banned in some cases. That really ticked off many gamers who didn't cheat but who ended up being cheated. Then came fortnite and it's better. Guess who the sore looser is. So now they sue, and use any pretext possible, that being copyright infringement, just to make some money back on losses they allowed in the first place.

Battle Royal has been around since long before video games or even pc's. It's not a new concept.

 

[Co BIY]

Pretty sure I watched a WWW Battle Royal on TV a long long time ago ....

And a video game were the intro was a long halo style jump but I can't remember which game.

Ikari Warriors was a crashing plane, In Russian Attack you apparently just start inside the Russian base ... Help me out here ...