Turbine Sues Atari Over DDO: Unlimited

Turbine has sued Atari over a Dungeons & Dragons Online licensing dispute, alleging that the publisher signed a licensing deal with Turbine it had no purpose of honoring.

It gets a scra complex, as lawsuits are wont to do, but according to Courthouse News Inspection and repair it goes something like this: Atari sub-licensed the Dungeons &A; Dragons name to Turbine to break out the MMOG Dungeons &A; Dragons Online: Stormreach, which Turbine says required "dozens upon dozens of the great unwashe working hundreds of thousands of hour," not to mention millions of dollars, to complete, maintain and operate. Atari, however, "acted immoderately" by failing to adequately support and promote the game.

The complaint seems authorise enough capable that point merely then it starts to get a half-size tricky. Turbine claims that Atari continued to take payments under the terms of the deal, "extending their family relationship and paving the way for the launch of Turbine's free-to-shimmer DDO: Unlimited," while at the same fourth dimension planning to "not execute its obligations under the agreements and pretextually seek to declare Turbine in breach of the agreements."

That project, Turbine claims, was conceived of prior to the Crataegus oxycantha 13 agreement 'tween the deuce companies and was part of an overall strategy to either "dismiss Turbine as part of a adjustment, or keep with termination in bad faith to benefit from its own competing product at Turbine's expense." Turbine says that if the deal is terminated, it will "threaten the goodwill" the studio has developed among the DDO hearing.

The timing of Atari's supposed surprise farewell party does seem a bit odd with the launch of DDO: Unlimited just around the corner, but its modern acquisition of MMOG specialist Cryptic Studios could help explain IT. Cryptic's superhero MMOG Champions Online launches on September 1, which just happens to be the same day the DDO: Unlimited "Start" for subscribers and closed beta testers begins, and as the parent company of Inscrutable, Atari wish nigh certainly see more money from that than from its deal with Turbine.

Specified damages or backup man Turbine is after in the suit haven't been unconcealed, but the delay isn't expected to affect the found of DDO: Unlimited. Adam Mersky of Turbine said, "We are looking for forward to future week's launch of DDO Infinite," and noted that the studio plans to open a new high-electrical capacity server Eastern Samoa part of the launch. DDO: Bottomless opens to the public on September 9.

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