From:	Paul Gettle <RunnerPaul@*****.COM>
Subject:	Re: State of the Industry
Date:	Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:19:10 -0500

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At 09:39 PM 2/6/99 -0500, MC23 wrote:
>And FASA has also cited this as the reason for file 13ing Earthdawn.
Why
>does MS's computer rights prohibit the selling of Earthdawn?
Something is
>being left out.

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?

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?

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