man the main programmer or the core programming team really screwed SK over big time. Plagiarizing code...wtf were they thinking?
Dyack ran everything. It all falls on him.
Dyack
had to have been the one in charge of the decision to work with Epic and UE3.
When the work was too slow/not good enough, Dyack
had to have been the one who gave the programmers permission to stop working on game content, and start rewriting UE3 in the hopes that it would make their output faster/better (although maybe someone suggested it).
Dyack
had to have been the one who decided that their modified UE3 wasn't really UE3 anymore, and that they no longer needed Epic. He's also the one who decided to
sue Epic, which might have provoked Epic's countersuit.
Why would anyone rush to buy this game based on this news? It's already been out of print for FOUR YEARS and only SK is required to destroy its copies (of which it probably has 4).
SK (and probably Microsoft/Activision, through their publishing agreements) were ordered to
recall all unsold product. And since some stores are already refusing to sell people the stock they have on shelves, "sold" means sold to the customer, not sold to the store shelves.
Retail is probably going to try and make Microsoft/Activision buy the unsold copies back for the price retail originally paid.