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The Story Of Doodle Jump: Brotherly Love And Digital Snacks Last year, CDC Games (China) and Mgame (Korea) got into a heated legal battle over the status of Yulgang in Mainland China: CDC sued Mgame for breach of contract, and Mgame said they dropped CDC since they weren’t paying per the terms of that same contract. But, just as was predicted last November, the two companies have kissed and made up:
My weekends these days aren’t complete without a helping of the week’s Chinese game company lawsuit goodness (hey, it beats grading papers), and it looks like – despite China-based CDC Games and Mgame tossing around heated legalese the past few weeks – the companies are primed to kiss and make up. The CEOs from both companies met in Seoul to sign an agreement to ‘negotiate in good faith’ to reach some sort of mutually agreeable resolution to the battle over popular MMORPG Yulgang. Just last week, CDC Games was still claiming breech of contract and Mgame was screeching about non-payment, but the tune has definitely changed:
The parties agreed to work together to find a mutually satisfactory result and signed an agreement to agree to negotiate in good faith over the next several weeks to resolve all differences between the parties and reach an amicable solution.
“We are happy that the parties have agreed to negotiate and we are confident that we can reach a win-win solution for all in the near future,” said Xiaowei Chen, Ph.D., president of CDC Games.
Apparently CDC doesn’t feel like being the next Chinese company to rip off a Korean company’s IP (doesn’t look so good when you’re trying to combat low-level piracy) and Mgame doesn’t want to lose their piece of the lucrative Chinese market. We’ll see how this pans out.
CDC Games and Mgame Agree to Negotiate to Resolve Differences over Yulgang [Yahoo]
The MMORPGs may all be clones of each other, but at least pan-Asian game related legal battles are entertaining: MGame, a South Korean company, responded this week to the two lawsuits filed last week by CDC Games (as we mentioned last weekend), which cited breached contracts and lack of technical support (among other things) as a basis for their suits. This legal battle is quickly devolving into a ‘they said, they said’ battle. MGame alleges that they dropped CDC Games for non-payment of licence fees for the wildly popular MMO Yulgang; CDC hasn’t responded to these allegations, and it looks like there might be even more heated battles soon:
In a lawsuit filed by CDC Games last week, the company claims MGame has not been providing adequate technical support for “Yulgang” and that it has not been supporting CDC in its efforts to combat piracy.
In response, MGame said it has “hired and dispatched key personnel to sincerely provide support to address those issues.”
MGame Chief Executive Yi Hyoung Kwon said in a statement the company “will provide constant and stable services for ‘Yulgang’ in China with a new partner sometime soon,”
I love reading this stuff – it’s like a soap opera, but way better and with a lot more money at stake. You can’t make this stuff up. I can’t wait to see what happens if MGame and CDC don’t manage to iron this out, and MGame goes shopping for a new Chinese operator.
MGame Responds to CDC Lawsuits [Forbes]
