{"id":106776,"date":"2020-01-03T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/356262"},"modified":"2020-01-03T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T16:06:00","slug":"ragnarok-acquires-rune-ii-source-code-and-assets-following-legal-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/03\/ragnarok-acquires-rune-ii-source-code-and-assets-following-legal-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Ragnarok acquires Rune II source code and assets following legal complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rune II<\/em> publisher Ragnarok Game has secured the game\u2019s source code and assets weeks after filing a legal complaint<\/a> against developer Human Head Studios.<\/p>\n

Although both companies worked together to release the action RPG, the pair became embroiled in a legal skirmish as a result of Human Head closing its doors only to immediately form a new studio<\/a> under the Bethesda Softworks banner. <\/p>\n

Ragnarok explained it was “shocked” by the news<\/a> and had no prior warning, and said Human Head had abandoned the game “during its most crucial moment.”<\/p>\n

Shortly after, the publisher also accused Human Head of actively concealing the Bethesda switch, and suggested the studio was withholding Rune II <\/em>assets and code, thereby preventing it from supporting the title as promised.<\/p>\n

Now, however, it looks like the situation could be nearing a resolution, with Ragnarok posting a new forum update<\/a> confirming it has been handed a hard drive containing the requested assets and source code.<\/p>\n

“Hi everyone. I have tremendous news to share today. Late last week, we received a<\/em> hard drive containing the Rune II<\/em> assets and source code. We have brought on engineers to check the thoroughness of materials and ensure the hard drive has all Rune II<\/em> files,” reads the update. <\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently we have set up a build, test, and staging environment. Once we have confirmed that we are able to make a complete build of the current version of Rune II<\/em>, we are going to begin working on a patch to address the top critical issues, bugs, and optimizations that we have seen reported over the last month and a half. As always, thanks for sticking with us and being fans of Rune II<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear whether this means the legal feud between the two companies is effectively over, but at the very least its a slice of good news for fans of Rune II. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rune II publisher Ragnarok Game has secured the game\u2019s source code and assets weeks after filing a legal complaint against developer Human Head Studios. Although both companies worked together to release the action RPG, the pair became embroiled in a legal skirmish as a result of Human Head closing its doors only to immediately form […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}