| From: | MC23 mc23@**********.com |
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| Subject: | State of the Industry |
| Date: | Wed, 10 Feb 99 10:46:30 -0500 |
>Why? If you were a gaming company, would you buy a game line if you
>knew that the rights to any derivitive computer games had already been
>sold off to a third party?
The press release made it sound like it was not able to sell it, not
that is was made undesirable.
>That even if you work hard to develop the game line that you're
>buying, and manage to turn it into a glowing success, with strong
>potential markets for computer games in that setting, you either have
>to deal with that third party not of your choosing, or negotiate to
>buy the rights back.
>
>And if a game company doesn't think that the game line has the
>potential to be that successful, is it really worth buying?
But that wasn't how FASA presented it. If they did I would
understand. The press released read that FASA could not sell Earthdawn
because of Microsoft, not they shelved trying to sell it because they
thought it was too difficult. I'm not searching for speculation here, I'm
looking for facts.
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>Shadowrun for the Super Nintendo, Shadowrun for the Sega Genesis (two
>entirely different games, btw, not just the same game ported across
>two platforms), all the different MechWarrior games, MechCommander,
>not to mention the games in development like SR: Assassin.
I rumor I heard some time ago was Microsoft would shelve SR:
Assassin since they had something similar in the works. Until I hear
something new about SR: Assassin I consider it dead.
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