You may remember that in June last year, Bethesda filed a lawsuit against Behaviour Interactive and Warner Bros. over the new Westworld mobile game. Over half a year later, Bethesda and Behaviour Interactive have now stated that the lawsuit has been "amicably resolved".
Originally, Bethesda argued that Behaviour Interactive (which was involved in the creation of Fallout Shelter) had stolen designs, artwork, and code from the game, going on to use them again to create Westworld for Warner Bros. In response to this, Warner Bros. soon fought back, describing Bethesda's claims as "baseless".
The following statement has been released today:
"Bethesda Softworks and Behaviour Interactive jointly announced today that the parties have amicably resolved the lawsuit Bethesda brought against Behaviour and others related to the Fallout Shelter and Westworld mobile games."
As you can see, no information has been provided surrounding any terms accepted by either party, so it's impossible to know whether or not Behaviour was seen to be guilty of stealing the assets as Bethesda claimed.
As ever, feel free to share your thoughts on this one with us in the comments below.
[source gamesindustry.biz]
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Thank goodness that was keeping me up at night!
I imagine it went down like this.
Bethesda: Hi we're jerks.
Warner: Yes, you are.
Bethesda: Oh. cancels lawsuit
Both should be in court over shoddy business practices and conning well meaning people out of their hard earned cash. This other thing is a non-issue.
That kind of lawsuits should be solved with a fight to the death between both CEOs.
I'd give Behaviour Interactive's CEO a tank and Bethesda's an earbud to settle the lawsuit.
I wonder if all the Fallout 76 issues partly had something to do with this; as in Bethesda decided they have enough to deal with regarding all the F76 controversies, and stopped pursuing this lawsuit.
"Bethesda pointed out a number of bugs in Westworld's demo that were similar or identical to bugs in earlier versions of Fallout Shelter."
Here's why the trolls on here fail to see this is a IP theft. So if those trolls on here want to keep gaming IP safe should think long and hard here.
The two games DO look very much alike, so it isn't all that strange that they started a lawsuit. Personally, I'm going to stick to just playing Fallout Shelter: it's actually a highly addictive game, and I don't really have a need for more than one of those at any one time...
At least when we see a Nintendo lawsuit we know what gets resolved. This was the most boring lawsuit I've ever seen.
@Rhaoulos You're right!
Really, that both parties are satisfied with the solution is all that concerns us. Whether they actually did something illegal or not, I'd rather we didn't know, as people will pass armchair judgment on them for it until the end of time, when the party they wronged has come to terms with it.
"Amicably resolved" in this context usually means that one party pays all the legal fees and promises to be a good boy/girl from now on.
It will only be a matter of before a technical glitch in Fallout Shelter cause this situation to "amicably unresolve" itself...
It wouldn't be a Bethesda game without one.
Bethesda was wrong. Who played westworld know it. And like the case was against Warner, Bethesda had no chance to win. They give up.
@FlashBoomerang and you were reading the codes so verify this.
@SwitchForce If you play the game, you will understand. The only things wich suposed warner can be filled a lawsuit against(because this game) other companies can do against Bethesda. It's not necessary read the code to check it.
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