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That doesn't seem like a retread at all. Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper, for instance, was released in '09, and the dispute happened in 2019. A ten year per
by reitzensteinm 6y ago
That doesn't seem like a retread at all. Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper, for instance, was released in '09, and the dispute happened in 2019. A ten year period of exclusivity would not be uncommon, and neither would a publisher dragging their heels on handling it at the end.
It's very possible that the producers, lawyers and business development people involved in the original deal had all moved on. NOLF is famously not getting a remaster because nobody can figure out who owns it!
Maybe Frogwares is a bad actor, I don't know. But game publishers are notorious for trying to get away with all sorts of shit with studios that cannot afford to fight back, so there's another possibility: Frogwares is prepared to litigate to defend what is legitimately theirs.
- legitster 6y agoAbsolutely fair. I just want to make sure we don't rush to white knight someone in what from a distance could very well be a domestic squabble. I don't doubt for a second that the publishers are crappy actors. But on the same token, you wouldn't expect them to do something so brazenly awful unless they had a legal leg to stand on.
- mym1990 6y agoMore like a peg to stand on. Yarrr.
- toyg 6y ago> NOLF is famously not getting a remaster because nobody can figure out who owns it! Yet another way the games industry is just "movie industry 2.0". The web of production and distribution deals in the movie biz is notoriously hairy, prone to end up in situations where IP ownership is contested. Which is a shame, really.