Oath Developer ReadyUp Studios Is Being Accused Of Scamming Their Contractor Ocean Spark Studios

Earlier this year, independent developer ReadyUp Studios launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the development of their action sandbox MMORPG, Oath. According to the game’s Kickstarter video, ReadyUp will use the funds for new content such as character model updates, animations, new enemies, and sound effects among others. That job went to Ocean Spark Studios who is now accusing ReadyUp of scamming them in a recently published video. Ocean Spark says that they were summarily dismissed from the project without payment for alleged Breach of Contract which the studio denies.

According to MMORPG.com, Ocean Spark recently posted screenshots of their conversations with ReadyUp as evidence in a private Discord Channel. Ocean Spark Studios Director Zach Cundall also gave a statement to MMORPG.com saying that, “The only other thing I can state other than what’s in the evidence channel is that we have not bought anything from the UE4 marketplace and everything WE have implemented we have created. We have followed instructions from Readyup Studios to the best of our knowledge for what to add and create whilst working on this game. We know they can not find anything we have bought because we have made everything we have been paid for.”

Here is ReadyUp Studios CTO Ethan Davis’ response their public Discord channel:

“As some of you may have already noticed, Ocean Spark Studios are no longer members of our channel.

A few weeks ago we noticed an error when starting our project stating there were missing files, and noticed they were referencing assets they did not create. After looking into it, it seems like they used marketplace items and bought them into our project, which we paid them for, which violates epics marketplace terms of use. This can result in being banned from using unreal engine, and even legal problems for us, so we are forced to stop all partnership with them while we look over every asset to make sure we are not involved in anything that can jeopardize our project and/company.

Everything is still being worked on and this does not affect development even slightly. Our video is still planned for this month.

Thanks”

Ocean Spark’s video and ReadyUps evidence on the Oath website has recently been taken down for unknown reasons. We’ll keep you updated as this new drama unfolds. In the meantime, you can check out the Oath Kickstarter Promo video below.