Of course its not serious - ZeniMax will never win a jury case, Oculus Store is seeing growing software sales and there is no way that a company that won a copyright infrigment case can ask for a suspension of sales while appeal is in process. /s
Oculus has lost there court case, What do people think is going to happen, did we purchase an expensive headset whiich is doomed to fail now?
They actually won most of it..... 500 Million is just pocket change to them.... don't worry about it. Everything is going ahead as normal.
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Oculus came out a winner. The ruling breakdown was provided somewhere around here. All is well, but since some money was awarded there is still enough to talk about to keep the drama going haha
I don't think $500M is pocket change to anyone. I doubt it will in any way affect the Rift or future development, but it's still a significant sum that could have been allocated to much more important things.
The title of this thread is totally misleading : 1) Zenimax barely achieved 20% of their claim, after the court concluded the CV1 was "not" built on Zenimax technology. 2) After their 80% victory Oculus VR is now pushing back to achieve a 100% victory.
I dont understand how Oculus has to pay out $500 million but u guys consider oculus is a winner in this. Zenimax is the winner!! They gained, not Oculus???
I dont understand how Oculus has to pay out $500 million but u guys consider oculus is a winner in this. Zenimax is the winner!! They gained, not Oculus???
There were several claims made by ZeniMax. The most serious was the claim that Oculus stole trade secrets to create the Rift, and the jury ruled against ZeniMax on that one. ZeniMax won damages against Oculus for improperly using Doom 3 to promote the Kickstarter, and for breach of the NDA that Luckey signed early on. They also won part of their claim about copyright infringement based on their expert witness's testimony of "non-literal copying", which Oculus will most likely challenge in their appeal.
Basically, ZeniMax did win some money, but not the big amount they were after, and they failed to establish that Oculus stole their technology. It isn't a simple win/lose scenario.
As others have said, Zenimax was only awarded a fraction of what they were trying to sue Oculus for, and since most of that money is coming out of the (insanely wealthy) executives' own pockets, it's not going to affect the Oculus company's business in any way. Just a few cancelled yachting trips, at most.
The only way this could be considered a "victory" for Zenimax is if their primary goal was to generate overblown scandal headlines that only the most under-informed would take seriously. Given how in-bed they are with Oculus' chief competitor, whose entire business model has been based from the very start around trying to make Oculus look bad in order to steal their customers, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if that WAS the intent.
It's hard being the voice of reason when you're surrounded by unreasonable people.
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