Bethesda Sues Warner Bros. Claiming Fallout Shelter Code Has Been Stolen

Juicy stuff, where's my popcorn?

If true, silly of Behaviour Interactive to believe they can get away with it or that WB will help them out.

They'll just say "ok!" and get another dev to create the game.

I’ll pass on either game. TMZ is also really annoying.

Warner Bros are gits, so I'm all for them getting sued.

Why bother, from what I’ve gathered, Fallout Shelter isn’t even that good. 😂

Jokes aside, this is laughably dumb.

@DABYX I mean if it were just the art style similarities it probably wouldn't be enough. But the same bugs?! That's pretty damning evidence. If this is true, there is no way Bethesda will let them get away with it, though they may choose to settle. I'd much prefer if they proceeded with the lawsuit though since this kind of stuff really needs to be cracked down on.

Hold on, what? Bethesda games have bugs in them? Surely not!

Mumble grumble, Skyrim, Arcwind Point, Slow time shield perk...

BWHAHAHAHAHA! I can't....bwhahahahaha!

I have been seeing another game that looks exactly like fallout shelter advertised in the various app stores.

It's one with a medieval theme and characters that look like Gravity Falls characters mixed with Seth McFarlane characters.

I find it hysterical that Bethesda is able to identify infringement because the bugs are a giveaway. It would be a meme were it not actually them saying it.

The real question is if it's also free to wait microtransaction rubbish like Fallout Shelter.

@Yorumi But it's Bethesda we're talking about. "We can tell because of the bugs, and we've seen a few bugs in our time" The particular involved party is what makes the joke

You can't copy our bugs! They're proprietary! You're taking our entire business model!

@NEStalgia #JUSTBETHESDATHINGS

Hah. Now this is funny. No leg to stand on if it includes the same bugs as Bethesda's game.

Well dang, that explains why Bethesda leaves gamebreaking launch-day bugs in games like Skyrim, even including them in special editions seven years later. The bugs are their own little "watermark" to make sure nobody's copying them.

And hey, this wouldn't be the first time Warner Bros. has stolen stuff. Remember when they put Nyan Cat in Scribblenauts without the permission of its creator?

@Tsurii When I said this was laughably dumb, I meant the fact that WB thought they could get away with it. It was poor wording on my part, but there’s no need to mock me.

You cant' copyright mechanics and this game obviously uses original art, music and code, so I don't see what claim Bethesda really has here.

Great way which Bethesda choosed to do marketing from the bugs of their games.

@Yorumi Ah, well that's interesting if they've just nicked the code. There's definitely a case if the code's been copied and used.

I hope Bethesda wins, really don't like Warner Bros. and their lack of support for Switch. If they do win though better use those money and give us a better port or original games for Switch.

@retro_player_22 What the heck are you talking about by the end of this year they’ll have released 8 games for Switch. Bethesda has released 3 games with Wolfenstein 2 releasing next week with no other games known currently.

Behavior Interactive are developers right? So they probably created the code in the first place. Now Bethesda wants to sue because Behavior are using their own code under Warner Bros instead.
Sounds like legalities and contract BS.

Not as frivolous as the "Scrolls" lawsuit. I've no empathy for Bethesda after that. With any luck they lose the lawsuit.

@Yorumi

Also curious, and probably telling that these bugs were not caught and resolved. Which implies incompetent stealing at best; lawsuit or not I would say release those individuals.

The only thing suspicious is Fallout 76 skipping Switch.

That’s fair, if this is true (and it sounds true) then this lawsuit should be open and shut. Coding is fairly time intensive and is proprietary for a reason. Like @Yorumi, I too had programming classes in my undergrad (heck, it was most of my major) and yes, they were quite struck about plagiarism. And yes, to the point that if we were caught stealing code, whether from another classmate or elsewhere, that was instant expulsion from the program. With the logic that if we did that in the real world, we’d be in legal trouble, so expulsion is peanuts comparatively. Personally I’ve not actually observed this in action, I don’t follow many lawsuits, I hope justice is served - code takes time to write, like anything else. And yes, the bugs are the damning evidence, I could write the same program twice and have different bugs despite me writing both, this reeks of copy pasting...

Gotta Sue 'em All

@gatorboi352 No, it's also suspicious how wrecked I am.

So it's a Mobile Port Plus?

This is hilarious

@Prizm I don’t know if you know how development works but the publisher owns all ip, all work, etc. Some few cases might be different but this lawsuit says otherwise.

They will have all the game code in a repo that goes back to the first commit of code. Hard to fake that paper trail so this will be interesting if they can get access via the courts to that repo.