The Escapist in potential legal trouble after Star Citizen article?

[CM30]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...st-faces-legal-action-over-star-citizen-expos

Apparently Cloud Imperium Games is considering legal action against The Escapist after the latter published an article about the company and (what its sources said were) its working practices. Basically, the article accused them of improper/potentially illegal working practices and said that Chris Roberts' was 'arrogant' in his pursuit of funding.

Here's the original:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/art...st&utm_medium=index_carousel&utm_campaign=all

The sources they used may have been questionable, and the company says the site didn't vet its sources properly and posted misleading/incorrect info.

So what do you think? Personally, I'm not surprised we're seeing stuff like this now, the gaming media is ridiculously poor at adhering to journalistic best practices and their articles can cause real damage if not properly sourced or written. I'm just a bit surprised its them being sued.

Either way, it's certainly going to be 'interesting' to see what the outcome of all this stuff is.

 

[Nitwit]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...st-faces-legal-action-over-star-citizen-expos

Apparently Cloud Imperium Games is considering legal action against The Escapist after the latter published an article about the company and (what its sources said were) its working practices. Basically, the article accused them of improper/potentially illegal working practices and said that Chris Roberts' was 'arrogant' in his pursuit of funding.

Here's the original:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/art...st&utm_medium=index_carousel&utm_campaign=all

The sources they used may have been questionable, and the company says the site didn't vet its sources properly and posted misleading/incorrect info.

So what do you think? Personally, I'm not surprised we're seeing stuff like this now, the gaming media is ridiculously poor at adhering to journalistic best practices and their articles can cause real damage if not properly sourced or written. I'm just a bit surprised its them being sued.

Either way, it's certainly going to be 'interesting' to see what the outcome of all this stuff is.

What the heck?

 

[Kaynil]

Aww. I kind of like the Escapist articles (and zero punctuation).
lets see how this ends.

Update: The Escapist, notwithstanding Cloud Imperium Games' notice and posting, stands by its coverage of Star Citizen and intends to continue to investigate the developing story. Since publishing our original stories, we have been contacted by, and are currently interviewing, additional sources corroborating a variety of the reported allegations. Additionally, if Mr. Roberts' offer for The Escapist to "meet the developers making the game and see how we're building one of the most ambitious PC games first hand" remains open, we take the opportunity to accept such invitation so as to hopefully provide the public with sufficient information and opportunity to vet such sources' allegations and claims for themselves. We have also communicated the foregoing directly to Cloud Imperium Games.