ee52ff No.16721509
http://archive.is/ojrr2
I know i'm a month late but I just found out about this and I didn't see any threads.
>All existing lawsuits between Stardock and Ford & Reiche are dismissed with prejudice (this simply means the suits cannot be re-litigated).
>All parties are responsible for their own attorney's fees.
>Stardock gets to use the Star Control name for its Star Control Origins game and can develop sequels and DLCs as it likes.
>Ford & Reiche get to continue to develop their own direct Ur-Quan Masters sequel (which was previously called Ghosts of the Precursors but will be renamed).
>The Star Control Origins universe (now known as "the Star Control franchise") will continue in a disconnected bubble from the Ur-Quan >Masters/Ghosts of the Precursors universe (now known as "the Ur-Quan Masters franchise").
>Reiche will contribute some writing to the Origins universe, in a volunteer role.
>All of the complicated arguments about who owns which copyrights and trademarks and who they bought them from and when and what's copyrightable and what's not are mooted. (Which is great because it means I don't have to re-summarize the mountain of IP arguments that both sides were making!)
>The original three Star Control games can continue to be sold on other storefronts, including Stardock's, and Stardock will split revenue from those games' sales with Ford & Reiche.
>No licensing money changed hands.
>Brad Wardell of Stardock must furnish Paul Reiche with a specific amount of honey from Wardell's apiary.
>In turn, Paul Reiche must furnish Brad Wardell with a specific amount of mead brewed from Wardell's bees' honey.
So now "Star Control" is being called the "Ur Quan Masters" Franchise.
Thoughts?
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ee52ff No.16721540
>I (Paul) have a life-long dream of learning every Medieval villager skill. Raising bees has always been on my list, so that I could make mead (wine) from honey. I decided to cut out the middle-man (middle bug?) and just buy honey, but my desire to raise bees remained. So when we called Brad Wardell my first sentence was something like, "Before I start talking about settling our legal conflict, I'd like to talk about bees." The conversation about bees, honey, mead, and bee stings went on for quite a while before we moved on to the talking about the case. Our perspective was this: we don't like fighting, but we love creating, so can we step waaay outside the box and settle our dispute through positive, creative actions rather than continuing to beat each other up? Brad listened and agreed, and this became the basis for settlement. Our lawyers are all smart, professionals with their client's best interest in mind, but it's worth considering that it was only when we communicated directly with each other that we made progress.
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ee52ff No.16721552
>Stardock dropped all its alien name and character trademarks and all parties have dropped their oppositions to each other’s trademarks.
>Both sides recognize each other’s copyrights and will not challenge them in the future.
>We were able to come to a very specific understanding on the alien characters and races — how they look and act. Stardock is dropping all trademark registration of the alien names and won't use the described aliens without permission from Paul & Fred.
>Star Control, Star Control II, and Star Control III will be coming back for sale by Stardock so that fans of all ages can enjoy the classic games in their original form. Paul and Fred will split royalties equally with Stardock.
>Stardock, and Brad in particular, is supportive of Paul and Fred owning the Ur-Quan Masters trademark. All of us are committed to support the current UQM team and project, including their having a free, perpetual right to use the Ur-Quan Masters trademark for their amazing fan-powered recreation of the original game.
>Stardock accepts that Paul & Fred are the creators of Star Control and Star Control II. Both parties agree that many other skilled people also contributed their talent and creativity to help make the games so great.
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ebb1d5 No.16721567
>Brad Wardell of Stardock must furnish Paul Reiche with a specific amount of honey from Wardell's apiary.
>In turn, Paul Reiche must furnish Brad Wardell with a specific amount of mead brewed from Wardell's bees' honey.
Why can't all legal disputes end like this? Mead is the drink of champions.
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ebb1d5 No.16721575
>>16721567
Also, forgot to mention, faggot lawyers were cucked by both parties speaking directly with each other and realizing that they had no quarrel. Truly the most honorable and Norse of outcomes.
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f3f0a4 No.16721578
>>16721575
Are they going to cut their lying kike lawyers' heads off with a battle axe? If not, could be more Norse, y'know? Good shit though, either way.
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296d57 No.16721650
>>16721509
>Thoughts?
Last thread convinced me to play Star Control 2, and it's actually shit.
It is really good at making you think it is a good game, but then you figure out that EVERYTHING you did until now is a massive waste of time and the few ways to win the game are totally disconnected to the gameplay.
You think you need to build allies and an armada to defeat the bad guys, but turns out you actually have to do Chain-Bring-Me-McGuffin quests. Why should I expect anything more from anything coming out of the franchise?
I give in that the writting is amazing and that the characters are great, but if I wanted just this, I would have read a book
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f8faf2 No.16721688
>>16721509
>Thoughts?
still better than mass erect
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99fc85 No.16721694
>>16721688
Didn't Mass Effect rip off it's story near beat for beat?
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f8faf2 No.16721725
>>16721694
yes, I don't have that comparison pic, but some anon does
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2d8a35 No.16721994
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d690eb No.16722058
>>16721540
> Our lawyers are all smart, professionals with their client's best interest in mind, but it's worth considering that it was only when we communicated directly with each other that we made progress.
So what he's basically saying is, get rid of the Jews and all our problems would get solved in not time.
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a22360 No.16722067
They resolved their shit and everyone wins, who gives a shit
I am a bit surprised that they both managed to pull their heads out of their asses funnily enough
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69e5b0 No.16722159
This made my day, thanks OP.
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5c6bce No.16722160
>>16721509
>>Brad Wardell of Stardock must furnish Paul Reiche with a specific amount of honey from Wardell's apiary.
>>In turn, Paul Reiche must furnish Brad Wardell with a specific amount of mead brewed from Wardell's bees' honey.
I'm okay with this.
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99fc85 No.16722170
>>16721994
This is criminally blatant and I'd like to see more detailed comparisons for anyone who knows this shit more.
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0ab74f No.16722185
>>16721650
gamplay is obviously rough, but as spaceship odyssey adventure type of game it's pretty mutch unmatch as the genre is so barren
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fdf9c6 No.16726284
>all that autistic arguing in the previous threads was a huge waste of time and no one actually knew what they were talking about
good to know
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2ad77f No.16727585
>>16726284
Perhaps the same could be said of all imageboard conversations. This really is the best case scenario though, SCO is a fun game but the writing doesn't hold up to 2. The two parties working together could really make something amazing.
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cfbfd6 No.16727663
>Brad Wardell of Stardock must furnish Paul Reiche with a specific amount of honey from Wardell's apiary.
>In turn, Paul Reiche must furnish Brad Wardell with a specific amount of mead brewed from Wardell's bees' honey.
Heh
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17e954 No.16727812
Copyright still won. The rest of the world lost.
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0f95f3 No.16728882
>>16721575
They spent enough time having their lawyers bury each other in paperwork they probably made spent at the very least 50k each.
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bce9ed No.16728960
>>16722067
European WINS again.
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ee52ff No.16737639
I wonder if Brad can hold his autism seeing everyone prefer Ur Quan 2 to their bullshit SCO
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6e2f11 No.16737669
>>16721509
Sounds like the best outcome that could have happened, happened. Now we can talk without having Mark ban everyone that posts. Right Mark?
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9b7aea No.16737680
Am I allowed to say I enjoyed Origins now without being labeled a shill?
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99fc85 No.16737682
>>16737680
Sure but you're still a faggot for giving a damn what anyone thinks.
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874c8b No.16737761
>>16721509
That turned out by far more amiable than I expected, figured it would either kill the project or be a lot more ill will to spread around.
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713ba7 No.16737822
This is great, one less excuse for the lack of info on the ur-quan masters game that has been in development all this time.
The ur-quan masters game wasn't kickstarter bait, was it? It sure would be funny if that game turned out to be kickstarter bait.
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06f4ba No.16737845
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fe7fd6 No.16737855
>>16721567
Hear hear. This is a settlement I can agree on.
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9da53e No.16737887
>>16721540
> Our lawyers are all smart, professionals with their client's best interest in mind, but it's worth considering that it was only when we communicated directly with each other that we made progress
Now that is literally the happiest thing I've read today and very glad that this fight could end on such amicable terms.
Both sides get to continue making their games unopposed and we might actually get to see the damn sequel everyone wanted.
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53498b No.16740390
>>16737680
Origins was a pretty, if utterly boring, game. I'll grant it that much.
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f81162 No.16740571
>lawsuit settled amicably
>both companies can make their games unimpeded
>the true Star Control 3 can happen again
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10637b No.16744449
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296d57 No.16744757
>>16722185
>spaceship odyssey adventure type of game
except it's not one, it's just a giant fetch quest disguised as a good game
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4c3383 No.16745292
>>16744757
Some *campers* are not good for *games*
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b8b813 No.16746722
>>16721509
Cool, now they have time to publish Sins of a Solar Empire 2 with story campaign and multithreading.
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ab63e3 No.16746728
So I don't know much about the story, but didn't this start over a dev trying to make a game in a universe they had no rights to?
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d6dd1b No.16746761
>>16746728
almost
dev A was making a game with a title they held the rights to but not the universe while dev B was making a game with the universe they held the rights to but not the title
then dev A tried to include bits from the universe while dev B tried to say "from the makers of game"
dev A got mad and tried to shut down dev B because petty fucker. Dev B got mad in turn
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abc764 No.16757231
>>16746722
thanks for reminding me that i wanted this
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296d57 No.16758422
>>16745292
NO MORE *PLAYING* ABOUT THE STAR CONTROL
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1a95d9 No.16758537
>>16744757
>instead of mindlessly killing everything, you have to actually do shit
<this game sucks
Gaming in 2019
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296d57 No.16758625
>>16758537
One issue is that the game is a visual novel, not a Single Unity RTS or whatever the hell it looks like
>you have to actually do shit
The bigger issue is that you don't have to do shit like they sell you have to.
The narrative states you have make allies and grow stronger
The game have you collect 3-5 MacGuffins and be done with it
Alliances with the other species is 100% useless. I think the zen interdimensional dude is the only one you actually need, from memory, and alliance with him is automatic
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