About a month ago, we reported that PUBG Corp, the company behind PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, had issued a copyright violation lawsuit against the creators of Fortnite, Epic Games. Well, the studio now seems to have suddenly dropped all legal action.
PUBG Corp has been making a case against Epic since January 2018, and planned to take the publisher to court in South Korea claiming that Fortnite was too similar to Battlegrounds. However, on Monday of this week, the company sent a letter to Epic's legal team, dropping the whole ordeal, and the case has now been closed.
It's unclear whether an amicable settlement has been reached between the two companies, but this seems to be an end to any legal proceedings. It doesn't come as a huge surprise; we can't imagine PUBG Corp had much of a case to begin with. Hopefully no more will come of this, and the two games can co-exist in relative harmony.
[source bloomberg.com]
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If you can’t beat’em, sue’em. Or purchase license exclusivity lol. Ask Apple and EA.
Remember when King games tried to sue Stoic? hahahahahaha
I wonder if PUBG is ever actually going to come to the PS4.
Scariest thing about this is it was a whole month ago you posted the original article. Seems like yesterday. My short life is seriously slipping through my delicate fingers.
@get2sammyb Doubtful at this point. It runs like crap on even Xbox One X with help from first party Xbox studios.
So what good will it do on PS4?
It's saying something when Fortnite runs better, in the same engine, on a phone.
@get2sammyb Personally, I doubt it. PUBG were never prepared for the level of success it got and with their hastily expanded resources, they made som poor decisions. When it takes them 3 months to produce a new map and its nearest competitor can introduce new elements almost weekly, you have to question its long term viability.
@get2sammyb if it does itl have alot more competition in the form of H1Z1, Battlefield and COD. So unless they dropped this lawsuit to go after ea and activision blizzard (hilarious as that would be but I wouldnt put it past Player Unknown) I think Battlegrounds will stay a Microsoft Exclusive
@Danloaded "It'll stay Microsoft exclusive"
Where it also has to compete with Battlefield and CoD...
And so they should withdraw it. I really don't think they had a legal footing either as they can't even claim its a totally original and their own creation but they too borrowed the concept from others.
Fortnite, whilst similar, also puts its own spin on the concept too which again separates it from PUBG. Its not using any of the assets that can be contentious as we have seen other games do - using Artwork/weapons from CoD in their game. With BFv and CoD also jumping on the bandwagon, they would be suing a LOT and losing a lot too.
You also don't bite the hand that feeds either and we all know who owns the engine that PUBG is built on. It would make a LOT more sense for them to be going to Epic and getting help on making the game run better...
As for that performance deficit between PUBG and Fortnite, the visual difference is much more resource heavy than the more cartoon style of Fortnite. However the game is poorly optimised on PC's which are also months ahead of the Xbox version. Maybe by the time the Xbox catches up with the PC, get it in a much more consistent and better optimised state, it won't be worth releasing on PS4 because most have moved onto the PS5 (or 6 LOL)
PUBG should have never made the exclusivity deal with Microsoft. It's redundant now. To quote a British band: "you do it to yourselves, and that's what really hurts".
@Knuckles-Fajita true but it already has a foothold on PC and Xbox.
Wonder if Epic threatened to revoke bluehole's unreal license if they continued with the suit.
@kyleforrester87 Same here @__@. I'm only 29 but I feel like time is on fast forward ever since I started working full time.
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