"We did an outright buyout of the engine last year and have the source code, so while we hope all the noise about Crytek blows over, as they are great partners and friends to the project, if the worse happened we would be ok, as we’ve already branched the engine and have a large team that is adding features and supporting it every day here at CIG. So even in the worst case scenario we should be fine, but obviously we hope it does not come to that."

Cheers,

Erin

With this being the fact. Crytek has no legal stand against CiG since they bought out the engine for their own use while also saying they would use nothing but that engine since they now own it, it isn't in the contract standards of it being used on Cryteks side.

If it is hard to understand its like renting a game you basically are under certain standards and have to follow their rules. You buy the game fully you can piss all over it and they cant do anything but try and complain that you mistreated it.

@shanzul: Now PUBG on the other hand might be the SCAM or easiest cash grab ever and just drop and start fresh for another easy grab.

This is basically whats happening, people get jealous when others are seen as superior and want to take them down a notch.In this case, CIG is making waves in an industry, and for some reason people take it personally and want to see them brought to the same level of other developers.

Crytek cant legitimately sue CIG because Crytek itself was not able to offer the support of what it was supposed to give to CiG due to the fact they have not paid their own teams and with that they failed to live up to there own terms which would void the contract and can be argued against.