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• • Dark and Light game developer NPCube dismissed and convicted by French Court

  • The final speeches took place last Thursday, October 2nd, as planned. The Judge announced the verdict was to be reached on October 31, i.e. in less than 4 weeks.

  • Posted: 10/04/08 11:22 AM
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• • Dark and Light game developer NPCube dismissed and convicted by French Court

  • Update of the day:

     "On September 5, 2008, took place the closing hearing for the defendants to file their last submissions before the judge in charge of receiving final submissions and pieces of evidence to prepare the case for trial. The defense of NPCube, Farlan and Mr Cesar Jacquet was to file its submissions in reply to the substance of the case. None was filed by the defense which yet asked the judge for another hearing to be scheduled and the date of final speeches to be postponed.
    
    On September 8th the Judge ruled that the defendants' request was not admissible and confirms the date of October 2nd for final speeches to take place. "

     

    BTW no source link for today, sorry, as www.pourieux.com 's server has been out of order as from the 29th of August, 2008.     

  • Posted: 9/10/08 4:01 AM
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• • Dark and Light game developer NPCube dismissed and convicted by French Court

  • Ah! I was almost right in saying that "I guess we'll see a number of posters putting forward "it's all Pix's fault " if they fired every single soul at NPCube.": We have now kinda official answer on the subject:

    http://www.darkandlight.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72092

    "Alas the development team was strongly reduced while waiting for the end of the lawsuit. We hope to be able to reopen the completely functional servers soon. Please excuse us for the inconvenience."

    So, if they fired the whole team (which is translated by "strongly reduced the team" in the NFAAW - NPCube/Farlan and al world) this is because they were waiting for the end of THE lawsuit. I wonder if this is for the same reason that they seemed to switch off their server and that the Chinese press reported that SnailGame "Beijing office" went bankrupt. Are they  all waiting for the end of THE lawsuit? Gosh, patience is a great virtue, but it remains quite a pathetic excuse when you know they did their best at delaying and delaying and delaying the case(s).

  • Posted: 7/28/08 1:54 AM
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• • Dark and Light game developer NPCube dismissed and convicted by French Court

  • Originally posted by daelnor
    

    and for the record...I believe they already fled the country, as, you know, all innocent people commonly do.

    I personally always liquidate what assets I have and flee to china every time I'm winning a court case because I am honest and in the right...

    
     

    Man, and do  you fly to Mars whenever you lose a court case?! Cause that would be a little bit difficult to catch you there... 

    BTW I've been informed that NPCube has been convicted in yet another case and that the Clerk's Office has just informed the winning party that their Office was not in a position to notify NPCube since its manager Cesar Jacquet was nowhere to be found on Reunion Island/France.     

  • Posted: 7/24/08 2:58 AM
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• • Dark and Light game developer NPCube dismissed and convicted by French Court

  • Originally posted by Zorbane
    

    Originally posted by jimmyman99
    

    @ Pix

    When you do receive your money, I expect to get either a 10% cut or a pizza, whichever is greater. Somehow, I have a feeling its gonna be pizza :(

    On a serious note though, hope you get through this and get some cash back - all this trouble and all this time, you deserve something in reward. If you do, dont forget our pizza deal ;)

     Edit: regarding collection. Once all the court proceedings are over, depending on the number of creditors and local laws, if the company does not have enough money to pay debt, usually it means you can force them to sell their assets (including hardware and/or any IPs they hold). who knows, maybe Pix will end up owning D&L franchise!

     

    Unfortunately I think the DNL "franchise" is less than worthless.  Most players who were even remotely interested in it wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.

    Not to mention it would be quite an expensive feat to fix all the crap in DnL, not to mention code in all the missing features.

    Lol. I think VWORLD would rather prefer to simply and quite logically get the money NPCube was fined . A DnL "franchise" would not be indeed a good deal, since this "franchise" would come along a certain number of "promised features" DnL customers already paid for, but didn't get effectively: 
     

    - VWORLD would have to design, print and send thousands of maps
    - VWORLD would have to design, run and promote a server technology suite capable of handling hundreds of thousands millions of players on the same server
    - VWORLD would have to design, write, and translate a game design  
    - VWORLD would have to re-gain the confidence of the customers that were repeatledly charged on their Visa 
    - etc, etc, etc

    The only feature that VWORLD would be confident to provide without going the long lie rope would be the seamless big terrain which seems in the end to be the One remaining asset of Dark and Light.  

  • Posted: 7/24/08 2:43 AM
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