Is the Game getting Revived?

[DrunkOnSuccess]

as you may know a huge Legal battle caused the Developers of F13Game to cancel Updates and DLC's making us lose out on Jason X and the attached Map that was being created, but i decided to go on the official forums and i found, They are releasing a Nintendo Switch Port in a few days (as of typing this) so i must know, is the game returning? Or are they just trying to get a few final sales before the game dies?

[Ash vs. Himself]

Publicado originalmente por FruitBat Man:

So many people are STILL misinformed... no its not a suggestion... there was a cutoff for the old rights belonging to horror inc.. anything made new could result in a LAWSUIT... not against cunningham, but gun media for copyright infringement due to miller winning first round.

The rights belonging to miller IS NOT RETROACTIVE. They will sell the old movies in stores... but no NEW movies/game content can come until appeals are over. Then whoever has the rights must give the ok. The switch release is NOT new conrent... its rerelease. Again... the suit is NOT RETROACTIVE.

Short answer: no. No new content ever for this game. The only time gun media could is years after appeals process ends or a settlement is reached... but even then they WONT. They are free to redistribute what already exists.

Link it pal.

[LAMP ENJOYER]

Please keep telling everyone that "no, no new content could of been made because cease and desist cutoff date was given to the companies."

They could of released Jason X and finished the Grendel map in the time allocated before the cease and desist would be in effect. After Miller won the first round, it should of been fairly obvious that a cease and desist would be around the corner and should of been a factor to push that content out.

The game before the January update was still a buggy mess. Counselor sliding and standing on cars (until recently ;) ) was still possible making most games already Counselor dominated, not to mention multiple Jason techs as well were discovered during this period that allowed Jason to not worry about kill squads anymore. Also, ever since release they added proper anti-cheat and altered the coding for Jason skins and perk stacking which really made the game less fun to those who were looking for something else to do other than tryhard in the sense of not giving yourself any advantages. Three Epic Aquanauts on Vanessa anyone?

From the period where they stopped supporting new content to the January update and now, they could have pushed out bug fixes and properly made the game playable. But we all know now that that really didn't happen because lo and behold the incompetent devs thrown a flashbang into the community, and here we are still disputing/arguing when the evidence is there still on how it went down.

Oh, and lets not forget about Praetorian. lol

[FruitBat Man]

Whether or not they could have released the maps before june cutoff last yr. is a whole different argument.

It was unfinished there was no music for jason x yet... could they have rushed it? maybe. Maybe not. Either way it wasnt released. And due to the appeals process nothing NEW that has to do with Friday the 13th can be released. Not by gun, not by anyone.

[Youtube: BoyDilly]

I wish the lawsuit ended. Would be cool to see new content, new maps, huge bug fixes, new Jasons and more developers working on it. But that's just a dream.

[panfilo]

Publicado originalmente por BoyDilly:

I wish the lawsuit ended. Would be cool to see new content, new maps, huge bug fixes, new Jasons and more developers working on it. But that's just a dream.

Bug fixes are still possible still waiting on the patch that is suppose to come out today.

[panfilo]

Ash did you watch those 2 interviews?Larry explains the situation pretty well and he is a copyright lawyer.

[Youtube: BoyDilly]

Publicado originalmente por Revenge:

Publicado originalmente por BoyDilly:

I wish the lawsuit ended. Would be cool to see new content, new maps, huge bug fixes, new Jasons and more developers working on it. But that's just a dream.

Bug fixes are still possible still waiting on the patch that is suppose to come out today.

They can still fix bugs but they reduced the size of their team and now with every patch they introduce even more bugs.

[panfilo]

It's also a totally different team working with the previous teams crap coding and you had the adding more bug problem with the previous team too .If anyone can do better go apply at Gun Media.

[Ash vs. Himself]

Publicado originalmente por Revenge:

Ash did you watch those 2 interviews?Larry explains the situation pretty well and he is a copyright lawyer.

Are they linked somewhere around here, or are your referencing them more generally? I'd like to watch them.

[FruitBat Man]

Publicado originalmente por Wrayday:

Unless there was a new filing, the one I read stated that Miller wanted to assert his rights to the original F13 only, and did not stop Cunningham from continuing to utilize the franchise up to and including F13 itself, just that for the 1st movie rights would also have to be run by Miller. But F13 part 2 on utilized derivative content not covered by the copyright. Remember, they used Mom and kidd Jason in the 1st film... everything created from that (Adult Jason/masks) had nothing to do with Miller. If Miller were to sue Gun over this it probably wouldn't go very far..... I think Gun realized the mess this game was in and used the lawsuit to popsmoke on the project..

Yes but using the character, backstory or anything referencing things ESTABLISHED in the first movie is open to litigation for a piece of the pie... unless you want another roy burns using "jason vorhees" is enough gray area to stop any additional content. I mean even the title would fall into first movie territory.

[panfilo]

Publicado originalmente por Ash vs. Himself:

Publicado originalmente por Revenge:

Ash did you watch those 2 interviews?Larry explains the situation pretty well and he is a copyright lawyer.

Are they linked somewhere around here, or are your referencing them more generally? I'd like to watch them.

Apparently you don't read previous replies I posted links to the videos go back a page.

[DrunkOnSuccess]

I'd like to step back into the conversation as Illfonic are now moving on to a new game, Predator: Hunting Grounds, so chances are even if a settlement is reached, progress on updates would be at a snails pace or not get worked on at all, so i think it's safe to say, the only way to save the game is with incredible luck so we can only really hope that things work out.

[panfilo]

People just need to STOP believing that once the law dispute is finally over that content is coming to the game.There are STILL people that believe that. Illfonic are NEVER coming back to add more content. Black Tower is obviously as incompetent as Illfonic was.They can't work with this crap coding either.

[Ash vs. Himself]

Publicado originalmente por Revenge:

Publicado originalmente por Ash vs. Himself:

Are they linked somewhere around here, or are your referencing them more generally? I'd like to watch them.

Apparently you don't read previous replies I posted links to the videos go back a page.

Oh, the interviews with Shelley. Yeah, he's not a copyright lawyer, he's an entertainment lawyer, so I misunderstood you. Also, this isn't his case, but even as is (and I watched the videos), he said the termination was in 2018. He's pretty unclear on communicating his point, but he says two things: 1.) game updates in these types of cases is a new issue and there is no precedent on how to deal with it 2.) he vaguely says something about not "putting in new stuff."

All that aside, why can they release a "new" edition of this game (it's not new, but it's name and platform is new)? To be clear, there is NOTHING clear on this case, and not adding content makes sense (tho no one has definitively said that they were ordered to do this, just that Miller put a termination on the copyright which locked things up. But do you really believe new bluray volumes would come out tomorrow if they were pending release? I'd say if the lawsuit is so serious, then no, yet those were movies already made right? This whole thing might make sense if they didn't release on Switch.

[Ash vs. Himself]

Publicado originalmente por Revenge:

People just need to STOP believing that once the law dispute is finally over that content is coming to the game.There are STILL people that believe that. Illfonic are NEVER coming back to add more content. Black Tower is obviously as incompetent as Illfonic was.They can't work with this crap coding either.

YES! Because they needed an excuse to bail on something they didn't care about.