In the spring of last year, an ongoing dispute between third party DCS World developer RAZBAM and Eagle Dynamics erupted into the public sphere with statements from both parties speaking to a serious dispute between the two parties. Since then, few details have come from official sources while developers familiar with the situation have provided many of their own perspectives on the situation. We have been waiting to see what would ultimately come of the situation and while today is not that day, we do have our first real update from RAZBAM officially in quite some time.
Discord server updates
The latest updates have come from RAZBAM’s Discord community and provided by Ron Zambrano (razbam_prowler on Discord). The first update came today at 11:54 am (EST) and was seemingly aimed at some of the leaks of information coming from various parties directly familiar with and involved in the dispute.
Important Reminder Regarding RAZBAM-ED Updates Please be advised that any information regarding the RAZBAM-ED situation that does not come directly from official RAZBAM sources should be regarded as speculation. To stay accurately informed, we encourage you to follow official communications through our designated channel, specifically the general-announcements section in our Discord server. Thank you for your understanding!
RAZBAM has seen some of their developers depart during the last year and some of them have been providing some commentary on the dispute. I’m not sure if this messaging is directed at them or other parties involved but it does look like RAZBAM is aiming to reduce some of the speculation and going on in favour of official communication.
That update was then followed by another update at 12:20 pm EST.
ED cannot ensure the operational status of our aircraft without our involvement and a clear resolution. Claims suggesting otherwise may mislead customers into thinking full maintenance can be achieved independently, contrary to statements made by their community manager. This clarification is being issued to address the widespread speculation and misinformation circulating online.
It’s unclear (to me anyways) what brought that particular comment about as well though Eagle Dynamics COO Katia Peredenko had stated some months back that the company would try and keep the F-15E (and presumably other RAZBAM modules) functional.
Eagle Dynamics Community Manager NineLine was also posting today with regards to the RAZBAM situation. He was answering the natural follow up question on how Eagle Dynamics intends to keep the module functional without the source code.
There should be no real way to break the module if we maintain core update compatibility. It’s a lot of work, but we are committed to doing keep them working as is until this is solved. Its nothing new though.
So the intention appears to be there to maintain these modules, however, I know that is going to continue to sit in an uneasy way until a more certain resolution has been found.
On that note, we don’t know what status of that dispute is currently. It may well be that Eagle Dynamics and RAZBAM are working out the issues and that a resolution could be forthcoming later this year. Or it may be the case that its being litigated with lawyers. It’s likely somewhere in between those two extremes.
Whatever the case may be, it seems that this challenging episode between the two continues to be ongoing for now.
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