Originally posted by Gameloading
let them burn.

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Originally posted by liddokun
Dark and Light ? Is that game still alive ? I thought it's already gone since what 1998?

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It started development before 2003 I think...didn't get released until 2005 (I think)...and was a failure from before the launch. They ran a free limited scope game for 6 months and launched the game despite a lot of their potential customers telling them not to. They were forced to offer free subscriptions to try to keep people interested in the game.

I was one of their "pioneers" and it was fun for a time...but I eventually grew quite jaded towards them and their complete lack of progress. I used to be a big fan of the game...before launch...hoping desperately that the game would improve. I'm not sorry to see this lawsuit...and I hope it finally brings down this poor excuse for a game.

For the record...I bought a pioneer account...and eventually purchased another account but due to broken promises demanded a refund before launch, which I got. I did not ask for a refund for the pioneer account. I wrote off the expense as a mistake in my gaming life...one of many including Star Wars Galaxies, Earth and Beyond, and Planetside.

If i remember right Light and Dark was already in development since 1998 before EQ1 even launched. In fact they were hyping it up and people were talking whether Light and Dark or Everquest would be a better game. Guess everyone knows Everquest went on to become an mmo legend while Light and Dark died before it even took off.

Karmac balance? I think so.

It's only a shame that they didn't get sued by the players themselves.

I hope D&L loses.

D&L are as good as crooks from my experiences dealing with them.

And they are unworthy of doing business with ever again as far as I am concerned.

Hate to say it, but this is old stuff that really probably won't go through.  What makes his allegations fall apart is that he used to work for Farlan in programming the engine.  He took software he made previous to employment in order to work as a terrain generator to Dark and Light.  Then after a spute with Farlan management he left and made VWORLD.  He brought this up like 2 or 3 years ago and nothing came of it.  Its only going to happen again.

The reason for this comes from many reasons.  A) He used the software for development while under employment, forfeiting his intellectual property rights. B) Farlan isn't in a position they can actually pay.

Oops, just checked out thier site.  Yup they have the right to sue because Farlan redistributed the software for other game companies in order to save its sinking ship.  The only saving grace of the engine is the terrain generation that they would need permission from VWorld to sell, even if it was used in the engine.

DnL isn't a game, it's a scam. 

Originally posted by remyburke
This made me giggle like a little school girl. Great news. Burn in hell NPCube.

Originally posted by niakori
I'm curious to see if DnL survives these allegations.  I would think that Farlan is in a bit of trouble as it is, this lawsuit is only the cherry of the sundae of doom they've made for themselves.  I think I want a sundae....

LOL I agree 100%!

DnL had so much potential, but they just destroyed the game. I was really looking forward to it for months on end before it came out. I really expected it to be revolutionary, something ground breaking. It definitely wasn't!

Originally posted by SBE1

DnL isn't a game, it's a scam. 

DnL isn't a scam, it's the biggest scam in history. They took so much money from all us subscribers.

So many promises, not one made true. Probably the worst communication with subscribers and community ever known.

So much money, so much anger, so much wasted time.

Farlan, go back to the pit that spawned you !!!!

Totally agree with the general consensus regarding this legal process.

The creator is more than right in his pursuit against these people. Numerous false claims, deceitful business practices in just about every area and one of the worst games in the history of mmos.

It will be a long time coming but I am happy to see someone take a stand against this sleazy company.

Probably the best thing that ever happened to the mmo gaming community is to see a lawsuit against these people at Farlan.

Ohh Wat's the matter now, God it's FREE. Balloons all work Quests work, the whole game has changes sense, Solded  OUT was posted.

No more worries because there are Arrows and dots to help you now in your Quest log or do most of you need someone to hold your hand as well,  baa so lets trash the game. Ohh you have to start thinking at level 20 SOOO sry about that. Now that we have said that lets move on to Vanguard another you all seem to like to trash but i wonder how many of you have ran to EQ2 or back to SWG and will leave those to the run to the Trial for Vanguard in neck breaking speed. wow am i nasty or what. not at all just being honest. and you know i am wright.

   Gees i hate SOE. LIES i tell ya, how in gods name could i hate SOE.  let me see was it EQ1,SWG, EQ2, VANGUARD. I don't think so.

 starts stacking piles of wood for you all to start the fires.

As an ex-pioneer and a sometime "give the benefit of the doubt" attempted player of the now currently free 2 play DNL I can tell you from first hand experience that 1) No, the quests are still broken 2) No no new content enough to keep anyone interested 3) transpo is still out of whack 4) NPCs are still out of whack 5) graphics are still messed up and grade school level 6) stability is non-existent and finally 7) the game has not changed since the farce that was SOG.

Farlan deserves all the legal hits it can take and more. I will even pass them the shovel to make sure their grave is deep enough in mmo history.

I can't belive DnL is still around and Auto Assault is gone o__O

Originally posted by ZAGAN

Ohh Wat's the matter now, God it's FREE. Balloons all work Quests work, the whole game has changes sense, Solded  OUT was posted.

No more worries because there are Arrows and dots to help you now in your Quest log or do most of you need someone to hold your hand as well,  baa so lets trash the game. Ohh you have to start thinking at level 20 SOOO sry about that. Now that we have said that lets move on to Vanguard another you all seem to like to trash but i wonder how many of you have ran to EQ2 or back to SWG and will leave those to the run to the Trial for Vanguard in neck breaking speed. wow am i nasty or what. not at all just being honest. and you know i am wright.

   Gees i hate SOE. LIES i tell ya, how in gods name could i hate SOE.  let me see was it EQ1,SWG, EQ2, VANGUARD. I don't think so.

 starts stacking piles of wood for you all to start the fires.

So if I steal your car burn your house and kill your family provided I return the car in working order its all OK? This is about  whether Farlan stole intellectual property. It's about whether they grossly mis-represented the game to defraud people outta money. I'm sure the game is fantastic now and I am glad you are enjoying it. Oh The reason that Vanguard is sited for comparison is because McQuaid/Sigil allegedly grossly misrepresented the game to solicit money from backers and customers. It is not about how good (or not the game is now). Sorry no flaming but I guess I could be persuaded

Well, all who had the misfortune to play this game (like me) saw this coming a long time. I am surprised it comes so late. I dont think there is much money left now to milk out, heh.

Quite a surprise DnL still exists! lol

Originally posted by Elikal

Well, all who had the misfortune to play this game (like me) saw this coming a long time. I am surprised it comes so late. I dont think there is much money left now to milk out, heh.

!Quite a surprise DnL still exists lol

Well, ya know, shit floats. 

Originally posted by Zorvan

Originally posted by Elikal

Well, all who had the misfortune to play this game (like me) saw this coming a long time. I am surprised it comes so late. I dont think there is much money left now to milk out, heh.

!Quite a surprise DnL still exists lol

Well, ya know, shit floats. 

Thanks for explaining the world to me, finally. Oh my, after all these years. 

This whole thing stinks and is getting stinkier.

For some reason, they (the editors here) allow this newsworthy piece of information, not only for the people of DNL, both haters and those that claim to like the "game", but also for the mmo industry as a whole, yet the moderator at the game forum here disallows this article to be posted in the DNL boards here. Stating its pretty much none of our busines......

DNL people come over, flame the long time posters, they lock the thread. Someone reposts the article with the disclaimer that it is up for updates of the court case and reasonable discussions only and whammo, it disappears.

curiouser and curiouser............

Originally posted by Thor79

 

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Originally posted by liddokun
Dark and Light ? Is that game still alive ? I thought it's already gone since what 1998?

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It started development before 2003 I think...didn't get released until 2005 (I think)...and was a failure from before the launch. They ran a free limited scope game for 6 months

This was called SOG. The devs insisted that this was NOT dnl, was a "standalone game" and was "a gift to the loyal fans". This SOG was a horrendous failure. All the while Farlan explaining it was a gift and that is was NOT Dnl.

and launched the game despite a lot of their potential customers telling them not to.

Farlan then claimed on the internet, for God and everybody to see, that they were forced by the fans to release DNL in the state it was in...unfinished and unplayable. This was after the thousands of refunds and thousands of complaint posts on boards all over the net after SOG was released and before the official release. As it turned out, SOG was in fact DNL, just as the Beta testers, who later came out due to the outright lies being placed by Farlan, had claimed.  They claim that the creator of VWORLD is the one and only one person who should shoulder the blame for the poor excuse of a mmo in the history of the mmo world.

They were forced to offer free subscriptions to try to keep people interested in the game.

This is after they tried to NOT refund people, after they billed countless people who had cancelled their account, after their many promised "miracle patches" did nothing but break the game further and after trying to get the monkey off their back by bringing in Snailgames.

And of course, all the while claiming to have developed the VWORLD tech themselves but then turning around and accusing the real creator of employing an "unbreakable code" so they could not "fix" the same stuff they claim to have created. If this were true even in the slightest sense, then Mr. _Pix_ should have his own office at the White House to place this "unbreakable code" in every homeland security we have :)

The most laughable thing is that vworld thinks they can market such trash.  Come on, that technology is at least 4 years old and it looks dated.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

The most laughable thing is that vworld thinks they can market such trash.  Come on, that technology is at least 4 years old and it looks dated.

It's not about marketing that "trash", as you call it. It's about Farlan staking claim to someone else's work as their own.

And that "outdated technology" was state of the art when originally developed by _Pix_. He and his company have since developed a bigger and better version.

 'Course, if you meant DnL was 4 year old, outdated trash, then you'd be correct.

Originally posted by Zorvan

 

Originally posted by Ozmodan

The most laughable thing is that vworld thinks they can market such trash.  Come on, that technology is at least 4 years old and it looks dated.

It's not about marketing that "trash", as you call it. It's about Farlan staking claim to someone else's work as their own.

 

And that "outdated technology" was state of the art when originally developed by _Pix_. He and his company have since developed a bigger and better version.

 'Course, if you meant DnL was 4 year old, outdated trash, then you'd be correct.

And this is indeed about Farlan claiming ownership in someone else's work (work that was developed YEARS in advance -- when DNL was just a twinkle in Farcelands eye) and not about marketing. I would think the mmo industry is very interested to see how this all pans out and so far, as before, Farceland is showing its complete ignorance in all aspects.

CASE IN POINT:

This is VERRRYYY interesting indeed:

*edited to conform to topic only**

on Stratics.com, in May 2004:

 http://www.stratics.com/content/portals/e3/content/features/dl/2004.php:

We were greeted by Laurent Paret who lead custom through the first share of our turn in the Dark and Light world. One of the first things you note is the wonderful ground rendering technology called VWorld. With the infinate view distance, the combination of Strong Micro ? S BigWorld engine and the VWorld ground rendering technology make for has beautiful sight and game playing experiment. The 15,000 public garden miles of prospectable Land to explores was made with actual satellite photographs taken of the earth. Thesis photographs were tweaked and made to made together to form shares of the world. The shares of the realm are consist and exist ace has whole. Dark and Light does not require “zoning” because of the technology that the game is using.

But now, it was only developed while he was employed by them? How then can it be under another company's name and that said company owners' name is Vincent Pourieux? 

BWHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA    

New updates at VWORLD

http://www.pourieux.com

UPDATE:

A new update...  (source) 

April 2007- [VWORLD - Paris  Court]
A court action is brought before the Paris Court. NPCube and Farlan will have to account for the 3 following charges of indictment:

- Software counterfeit
- Non-respect of the right to credit and paternity
- Unfair competition and parasitism

The writ is also served upon the same charges on César Jacquet, jointly with the companies NPCube and Farlan.

September 2007- [VWORLD - Paris  Court]
The first hearing took place on the 6th of September, 2007, before the Paris Court. However, Farlan and NPCube's lawyers did not appear before the Judge, whereas they were to file their submissions on that occasion. Due to their not coming to this first hearing,  the hearing is postponed to the 19th of October.

Although NPCube and Farlan did not file their submissions with the Paris Court to address the lawsuit brought up against them by VWORLD in April 2007, NPCube has issued a writ against VWORLD on September 21 before the Commercial Court of Clermont-Ferrand. VWORLD is charged with unfair competition and damage to NPCube's reputation, and VWORLD's lawyers are invited to file their submisions on October 5th, 2007.

October 5, 2007- [VWORLD - Commercial Court of Clermont-Ferrand]
VWORLD's defense appears on the 5th of October, 2007 and therefore files its submissions within the time allowed before the Commercial Court of Clermont-Ferrand. According to NPCube, VWORLD would be responsible for:
1- Dark and Light's failure
2- NPCube/SnailGame partnership's failure on DnL Asia
3- NPCube/University of Reunion Island partnership's failure on the E-Campus project

Besides, NPCube claims today having been making use of SCAPER for the development of the Mafate game engine and the Dark and Light's MMORPG.

Octobre 19, 2007- [VWORLD - Paris  Court]
The second hearing before the Paris Court takes place. Whereas they were to file their submissions at last, neither NPCube nor Farlan's lawyers appear before the Judge, for the second time. This hearing is marked by two sudden new developments:

- NPCube and Mr César Jacquet's defense counsel  goes back on his commitments to his clients and entrusts the case to another lawyer
- Farlan's lawyer is struck of the bar and de facto does no longer represent the off-shore Mauritian company

The new lawyer of NPCube, Mr César Jacquet and Farlan explains later on the same day that he has filed his submissions after the hearing, due to French public sector workers' strike.

Latest Update:

Well... today 's update:  (source)

November 9, 2007- [VWORLD - Commercial Court of Clermont-Ferrand]
NPCube files its submissions in reply to VWORLD's on last October 5th. In its submissions, VWORLD pointed out that it could not be held in any way responsible for NPCube's various failures, failures which seemed to be quite simply directly imputable to NPCube's own doings, notably its own deceitful communication. NPCube's reply consists in simply repeating its accusations against VWORLD and holding that VWORLD's submissions were "off the point", and therefore chosing not to reply further. The next hearing is scheduled

Originally posted by HappyFunBall
Let me burn in hell, I say.

For all the "rules" they have broken.
For the software/technology they falsely claim is theirs.
...and, most importantly, for the way they have treated their customers.

I still want EI interactive to burn (and their "new" parent company), for destroying my favorite game, Horizons.  Also, for all the people they have double/triple billed for many, many months, users they censored on their forums (or kicked off just for having a negative (and ACCURATE) opinion about the game, and how they made it near impossible to quit the game, and stop being billed.. among other things.  Love how they couldn't take the time to simply transfer user accounts from the Blight server, as they decided to kill it, and they KNEW many users played there as their primary server.  They made up some story how they would transfer accounts for this ONE guild, and as it turns out, that guild didn't even exist!  I never have a worse experience with a game company in almost 30 years of gaming.

As for DnL...like many others, I'm wondering "is this game still around?  Yikes!"

UPDATE: 12/7/07

Originally posted by _Pix_

Well, patience is a great virtue for sure. I have interesting news indeed:

 December 7, 2007- [VWORLD - Paris  Court]
The Paris Court enjoins NPCube, Farlan, and Mr  César Jacquet to reply to the substance of the three charges of indictment (software counterfeit, non-respect of the right to credit and paternity, unfair competition and parasitism) brought by Mr Vincent Pourieux and VWORLD, before the next hearing scheduled on February 1st, 2008.

So, we are now *patiently* waiting for the 17 th of January in the case NPCube brought against VWORLD, and for a set of conclusions finally on the part of NPCube/Farlan/C. Jacquet. for the February hearing before the Paris Court (the one they wanted to be cancelled on the ground of technicalities).  

Oh, also NPCube has just been condemned in another case. Not too sure they will advertise as much for that that SnailGame now advertises for its future Asian version of Dark and Light. Quite interesting to see how they use VWorldTerrain videos dating 2005 now to promote the neverending game (while cropping the appropriate logo, of course). Truly fascinating. Update of the day on www.pourieux.com.

It would appear as though the Paris court agrees that there is sufficient evidence and other findings in the suit against Farlan/NPC/C.Jacquet to impose their authority to compel an answer to the charges against them in the courts.

If this doesnt show just how ignorant Farlan/NPC/C.Jacquet has been in this entire deal, I dont know what does. The LAST thing you should ever do is pi** off the court. LOL They wont last long now.

I LOVE THIS:

originally posted by _Pix_

Thank you so much for this worthy piece of news indeed, agh50!

I must confess that your contribution of the day assuredly spared me spending valuable time digging heaps of information on the Chinese boards.

So to comment this advertisement trailer quickly: we can see that it is mainly presenting video sequences from the 2003-2004 DnL trailers (apart from the section dedicated to Voyage Century and Alone in the Dark , which, for the latter, you must certainly acknowledge, cannot decently have anything to do with NPCube/Farlan/ BigWorld or SnailGame). Anyway...what I cannot but clearly point out is that in the main part dedicated to DnL, it presents excerpts from a VWORLD video shot in 2005 and illustrating features of VWorldTerrain which are NOT included in Dark and Light. 

For thruth's sake, nothing better than proof-in-point images: link on VWORLD's Gallery, in which the reader may find the original video at the bottom of the page: http://www.vworld.fr/Gb/GBvideos.htm

Therefore, as of today, not only do SnailGame/ Farlan/NPCube (who else???) use videos that do not belong to them, but they blatantly truncate the original VWORLD video by cropping the top and bottom little details, like you know, small insignificant stuff like logos, comments, etc.

Here are two screenhots so that the reader may already appreciate the situation at a glance, though he may find some more enlightening elements in the latest update of www.pourieux.com.

On the left-hand side: the warez Snailgame and Co  version. On the right-hand side the VWORLD original version.

UPDATE:

Recent news:

December 2007- [NPCube - SnailGame]
A video presenting NPCube /SnailGame's partnership is broadcasted on the Internet. This video, a GamesTV report in Chinese, shows many video sequences of Dark and Light in its 2003-2004 version and illegally makes use of 26 seconds of video sequences from a 2005 VWORLD video, still available today on VWORLD's gallery.  VWorldTerrain's logo has been cut off on these images, which are presented as being in-game from Dark and Light. On the other hand, NPCube's name and Dark and Light's logo in Chinese appear on many occasions throughout this TV report. This video is broadcasted on many Chinese portals, and is linked to from the offficial community dnl.net website, among others.

This video also presents an interview in French of Mr Stéphane Quilichini, Lead Game Designer of Dark and Light. Mr Quilichini claims making use of a seven-year-old  technology, therefore a technology which has already been existing at least two years prior to the forming of NPCube. 

A comparison video, which shows the obvious counterfeiting VWORLD is the victim of, is posted on YouTube. This short video also shows extracts from Mr Stéphane Quilichini's interview:

December 10, 2007- [VWORLD]
On December 10th, 2007, VWORLD issues a formal notice ordering NPCube to suppress the counterfeit video serving the promotion of Dark and Light. NPCube is also ordered to publish a press release stating that the sequences from a VWorldTerrain 2005 video, which are illegally used in order to promote Dark and Light, are not taken from that game, and are not NPCube's, nor SnailGame's, nor Farlan's property. Upon VWORLD's demand, a bailiff's report is established on the counterfeiting of this video. NPCube does not reply to the formal notice and the counterfeit video is still used on dnl.net in 2008 (here,  here or there) in order to promote Dark and Light, without any intervention on the part of Alchemic Dream, company in charge of community management, in order to censor this illegal video.
 

December 24, 2007- [VWORLD]
Due to the illegal use of a VWORLD 2005 video in order to serve the promotion of Dark and Light in 2007, VWORLD has referred the matter to competent authorities so as to put an end to this counterfeiting without delay and obtain redress. 

( source )

UPDATE:

Newest update, same player ... here you go!  

January 2008- [NPCube - Other cases]
Mid 2005, NPCube, represented by its Managing Director Mr César Jacquet, had lodged a complaint against one of its salaried employees, and had associated in the subsequent court action with the public prosecutor. The employee was charged  with theft, notably to the benefit of VWORLD. Consequently, he had been indicted and the case had been brought before the Magistrates' Court of Saint-Denis, Reunion Island. 

NPCube has been non-suited, a first time on April 3rd, 2007, a second time on appeal on July 23rd, 2007 and a third time before the Court of Cassation on January 8th, 2008. Mr Christophe Nazaret and Mr Laurent Paret, NPCube's associate members, had testified against their ex-salaried employee, who had been dismissed earlier in 2005.

In its allegations, NPCube had implied that VWORLD had been pirating its work via the Internet and had been stealing confidential data from NPCube through two of NPCube's employees. VWORLD did not discover such serious accusations had been levelled by NPCube against VWORLD (as early as 2005) until April 2007, when the first non-suit decision was delivered by the Court of Saint-Denis, Reunion Island.

Separately, NPCube has been convicted on last December 3rd, 2007 by the Labor Relations Board

***These are two separate cases involving other former employees. NPFleece had attempted to pirate VWORLD technology in 2005 by asserting a claim against a former employee alleging piracy on the VWORLD technology when in fact, they never owned it in the first place. If they had proved their false allegations, it would have laid a foundation for claim for ownership by NPFleece; in effect, taking _Pix_'s work right from under him. Their attempt was shot down in trial court as well as in a subsequent action in what would be similiar to the US Appeals court in the states. All attempts were denied to Farceland/NPFleece.

In the second case, this was a woman who was a graphic artist with the production team of NPFleece. She won her case against them on December 7, 2007 for moral harassment (much like the tort intentional emotional distress) and unfair dismissal after a two year fight.

Things are heating up. Watch them slam _Pix_ even more than before now.

UPDATE:

Well, I think a little recap is needed

1- In April 2007, VWORLD sues NPCube/Farlan/C.Jacquet before the Paris Court. For crucial reasons (NPCube's lawyer moved house, Farlan's lawyer embarked on a new career in the movie industry,  a stupid public transportation strike, alleged technicalities) the defense of NPCube/Farlan/C.Jacquet wasn't able to bring any rebuttal before the Paris Court .

2- However, a part of this defense (NPCube solely) saw it was good to sue VWORLD before the Commercial Court of Clermont-Ferrand in September 2007. VWORLD having brought its submissions in reply within the time imparted, the matter is running its course, even if NPCube hasn't deeemed it necessary to reply on the substance of the case, in reply to VWORLD's rebuttal. 

3- The Court's decision at the Commercial Court of Clermont-Ferrand is to be rendered on next March 13th, that is to say 57 days after the final hearing which has just taken place on the 17th. 

UPDATE:

Yea, I did watch this. Let's wait for March then.

What is quite worth of notice is that there IS ANOTHER VID about Dark and Light Asia, which was made in September, 2006. Enjoy !!! I'll be letting you people count the exact time dedicated to

-  actual Dark and Light in-game images (BTW from 2003),

- ANOTHER FAMOUS PRODUCT pirated for DnL Asia's sake , but sadly not on-line (come on the Froggies have already found out which game it was from! ) 

- and finally the now famous VWorldTerrain 2005 trailer, also pirated for this other trailer for the sake of DnL 2007 Asia special version (but I found a little mistake: can anybody tell me the exact reason why they did forget to crop the LOGO ????????????????????????????????     )

Well there's yet another hypothesis on the subject on www.pourieux.com

Oh and here's an update on the current -rather neverending -affairs:

February 1, 2008- [VWORLD - Paris  Court]
Upon the order issued by the Paris Court, the defense of NPCube, Farlan and Mr César Jacquet files its submissions in reply on the substance of the case at last, after having postponed hearings three times (on September 6th, 2007: absence of the defense ; on October 19th, 2007: reorganization of the defense and public transport strike; on December 7th: alleged technicalities). Today, NPCube, Farlan and C.Jacquet pretend to be using a "SCAPER technology" developed prior to V-world/VWorldTerrain. The schedule has been decided as follows:

Plaintiff 's submissions in reply:    March 7, 2008
Defendant's rebuttal :                     April 11, 2008
Last hearing :                                  May 16, 2008
Final speeches :                             October 2, 2008

YET MORE!!!! BWAHAHAHHAHAHAAA Farlan/NPC just keeps us rolling.......

VWORLD sues NPCUBE again,  for pirating videos and copyright infringement. Procedures are to be quite rapid this time: judgment after the Ides of March.  

February 25, 2008- [VWORLD  - Commercial Court of  Paris]
VWORLD applies for summary judgment against NPCube before the Commercial Court of Paris, on the grounds of counterfeit and copyright infringment. This action follows the formal notice sent to NPCube on December 10th, 2007, and the bailiff's report certifying the illegal use of VWORLD exclusive video sequences dating 2005 to serve the purpose of promoting Dark and Light in 2006 and 2007. The speeches are to take place on March 4th, 2008.

( source )

update:

During all of these court proceedings, Farland and NPCube brought a suit against VWORLD and _Pix_ alleging Mr. _Pix_'s actions of interfering with the game and its progress. Below is the final verdict on that case. The original main suit against Farland is still pending.

In short :

VWORLD has brought a case before Court agaisnt NPCube, Farlan and Mr Cesar Jacquet in April 2007. Speeches are to be held  in October 2008, and the verdict is to be reached later on.  

NPCube in turn sued VWORLD on the ground of unfair competition in September 2007:  NPCube was accusing VWORLD of having caused its game Dark and Light to encounter difficulties and having damaged  the partnerships NPCube has signed with the University of Reunion Island and the Chinese company SnailGame. NPCube was also claiming it was making use of a "SCAPER" technology for its terrain needs. NPCube was demanding to be duly compensated. 

The Court has reached a verdict on last March 13th: NPCube sees its case dismissed by the Court upon all requests and has been fined for damage to VWORLD. 

UPDATE:

March 19, 2008- [VWORLD - Paris  Court]
NPCube argues it has not been granted enough time to retain a lawyer, and does not bring any submissions before Court in the emergency proceedings taken by VWORLD for counterfeiting of video sequences. The defense asks for the hearing to be postponed, which is granted and scheduled on March 26, 2008.

March 26, 2008- [VWORLD - Paris  Court]
The final hearing takes place at the Paris Court and the Court's decision is to be rendered on April 2nd, 2008.

This is of course the newest lawsuit. Fresh on the heels of the slam-dunk of Farlan in their failed attempt to place veils over the main case, VWORLD had filed suit regarding the counterfeit videos Farland is using in an attempt to gain interest in their game.

Farlan has obviously thought continuing it , a practice that is now their pattern, may be to their advantage. Much like their antics in the gaming industry, they just dont when to stop.

A few more days and another update.