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Message no. 1
From: Jon Stoltenberg jjstoltenber@*******.edu
Subject: Microsoft buys FASA interactive
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 11:04:23 -0500 (CDT)
I was reading the latest issue of CGW and they mentioned that Activision
had lost the license for MechWarrior because Microsoft had bought up FASA
interactive and has plans for MW4.

Does anyone know if this will have any impact on FASA proper?

just wondering

Rabid Dwarf
Message no. 2
From: Adam J adamj@*********.html.com
Subject: Microsoft buys FASA interactive
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 10:05:21 -0700
At 11:04 3/1/00 -0500, Jon Stoltenberg wrote:
>I was reading the latest issue of CGW and they mentioned that Activision
>had lost the license for MechWarrior because Microsoft had bought up FASA
>interactive and has plans for MW4.

This happened well over a year ago.

>Does anyone know if this will have any impact on FASA proper?

Yeah. They made a load of money.

Adam
< http://shadowrun.html.com/tss / adamj@*********.html.com / UIN 2350330>
Message no. 3
From: dbuehrer@******.carl.org dbuehrer@******.carl.org
Subject: Microsoft buys FASA interactive
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 10:17:00 -0700
Jon Stoltenberg wrote:
>I was reading the latest issue of CGW and they mentioned that Activision
>had lost the license for MechWarrior because Microsoft had bought up FASA
>interactive and has plans for MW4.
>
>Does anyone know if this will have any impact on FASA proper?

FASA Interactive was only loosely connected to FASA, in that FASA
Interactive had the rights to make computer games based on FASA products.

With the purchase of FASA Interactive, Microsoft bought those rights.

However, FASA retains full rights to it's RPG lines. Microsoft does not
have any say in the development of Shadowrun, Battletech, etc., AFAIK.

To Life,
-Graht
http://www.users.uswest.net/~abaker3
--
"Anything I have ever done that ultimately was worthwhile....
initially scared me to death."
-Betty Bender
Message no. 4
From: HHackerH@***.com HHackerH@***.com
Subject: Microsoft buys FASA interactive
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:31:56 EST
In a message dated 3/1/00 12:08:12 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
adamj@*********.html.com writes:

>
> >Does anyone know if this will have any impact on FASA proper?
>
> Yeah. They made a load of money.

an undisclosed, probably vastly significant, amount of money ...

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