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'''Lawsuit'''
 
Star Citizen is embroiled in a major lawsuit with Crytek. On 12 December 2017, Crytek filed a lawsuit against the developers behind Star Citizen (Cloud Imperium Games and Roberts Space Industries). This lawsuit has the potential to disrupt development of SC. Crytek alleges that they breached the Game License Agreement on multiple points. Such as:<ref name=":2">https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/13/16774244/crytek-star-citizen-cryengine-lawsuit</ref>
 
1. Developing two games (Star Citizen and Squadron 42) with one license. This lawsuit has the potential to disrupt development of SC. Since both use the same code, that constitutes using the engine twice and represents a further breach of contract.<ref name=":2" />
 
2. In December 2016, CIG and RSI said they were moving off of CryEngine 3 in favor of Amazon’s Lumberyard product. But Crytek claims CIG and RSI’s own marketing materials, show lines of code on the screen that seem to indicate the games are running partially, on CryEngine 3.<ref name=":2" />