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PUBG Corp Drops Lawsuit Against Epic Games - PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds - MMORPG.com

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited June 2018 in News & Features Discussion

imagePUBG Corp Drops Lawsuit Against Epic Games - PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds - MMORPG.com

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds News - It appears that the legal tussle between Epic Games' Fortnite and PUBG Corp's PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is at an end. According to Bloomberg, PUBG Corp has sent a letter to Epic Games to inform them that it was dropping the lawsuit originally filed in January 2018. There is no particular reason cited regarding why the suit was dropped, but it is possible that Tencent stepped in to stop the bickering as both companies have a relationship with the gaming conglomerate.

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  • anemoanemo Member RarePosts: 1,903
    DMKano said:
    They realized they couldn't win and it was just a waste of money.

    They had a fair chance to win the battle in that lawsuit. 

    They would have lost the war when Epic pulled the rights to use Unreal, along with all the legal fees related to this lawsuit and following license rights suits.
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  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 7,838
    The only chance they had of winning said lawsuit was their having filed in the Korean court system, which has young and highly flawed copyright laws.

    Ultimately, the off chance of winning a case on which they never had a leg to stand on is not worth the damage to PR and the chance of Epic - the masters of the court room - finding a means of pulling their Unreal license in the US court system. 

    Plus, you know, Tencent owns them both, and you do not mess with Tencent.
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  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 7,838
    DMKano said:
    anemo said:
    DMKano said:
    They realized they couldn't win and it was just a waste of money.

    They had a fair chance to win the battle in that lawsuit. 

    They would have lost the war when Epic pulled the rights to use Unreal, along with all the legal fees related to this lawsuit and following license rights suits.

    Nah Epic wouldn't risk pulling the right to use Unreal from PUBG - as this would send major panic to all the other games using Unreal as "well at any time they could do this to us as well" which the end result would be companies dumping Unreal everywhere.

    This would be the end of unreal engine period - so no your scenario wouldn't actually happen, as Epic is still making bank from the engine licensing.


    Perhaps, but try telling that to Silicon Knights and their game - Too Human. The last time someone tried to sue Epic games, it resulted in exactly the situation that you claim would not happen. 
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  • SabracSabrac Member UncommonPosts: 138

    Aeander said:


    DMKano said:


    anemo said:


    DMKano said:

    They realized they couldn't win and it was just a waste of money.





    They had a fair chance to win the battle in that lawsuit. 

    They would have lost the war when Epic pulled the rights to use Unreal, along with all the legal fees related to this lawsuit and following license rights suits.



    Nah Epic wouldn't risk pulling the right to use Unreal from PUBG - as this would send major panic to all the other games using Unreal as "well at any time they could do this to us as well" which the end result would be companies dumping Unreal everywhere.

    This would be the end of unreal engine period - so no your scenario wouldn't actually happen, as Epic is still making bank from the engine licensing.




    Perhaps, but try telling that to Silicon Knights and their game - Too Human. The last time someone tried to sue Epic games, it resulted in exactly the situation that you claim would not happen. 



    Silicon Knights stole copyrighted code from the unreal engine and use it on their own engine to make the game which epic proved in court thats why they had the rights to force the devs to destroy all the unsold copies of Too Human and pretty much destroyed them in the process, which is not the same case here where epic could try to find a legal loophole to remove the license engine from pubg that would only hurt them more than it would help.

    Besides i doubt epic even cares that much about pubg since they pretty much have the crown of BR genre and top game in mainstream anyways.

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