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0 pointssmileybarry4y ago0 comments

>> look at what happened to PUBG when they used Epic's engine

> They made a lot of money.

They reportedly worked with Epic Games on technical support for PUBG features, and Epic Games may've ended up using some of them in their own Battle Royale mode:

> Notably, Epic Games updated their in-development title Fortnite, a sandbox-based survival game that included the ability to construct fortifications, to include a battle royale mode that retained the fortification aspects. Known as Fortnite Battle Royale, Epic later released it as a standalone free-to-play game in September 2017. Shortly after its release, Bluehole expressed concerns about the game, acknowledging that while they cannot claim ownership of the battle royale genre, they feared that since they had been working with Epic for technical support of the Unreal engine, that they may have had a heads-up on planned features they wanted to bring to Battlegrounds and could release it first.

Quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PUBG:_Battlegrounds#Epic_Games...

Article: https://www.pcgamer.com/pubg-exec-clarifies-objection-to-for...

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stonith4y ago

I'm well aware of the lawsuit. It went nowhere.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/27/17509114/pubg-fortnite-la...

mrguyorama4y ago

Aren't PUBG the ones who tried to sue people for using a frying pan as a melee weapon in game? Years after valve had it in TF2?

There lawsuits seem a bit empty

jsmith454y ago

Super Mario RPG did frying pan as a melee weapon back in 1996. Sure it was character locked, a single player game in a totally different genre, etc, but it still means frying pans ere an established video game melee weapon long before before TF2, much less PUBG.

HeavyStorm4y ago

Saying someone copied your work and broke the law doesn't mean that that they did. That's why we have tribunals.

Personally, I'm all against what they did with Fortnite and PUBG - they didn't broke any laws, but the surely reworked Fortnite into PUBG,instead of creating their own thing (it is now). But that's a long shot from saying they committed a crime or that their acquisitions turn up bad.

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