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It usually eventually gets ownership transferred to some big company and they just stuff the IP in a drawer and forget about it. I was at a game company that g
by trashface 2y ago
It usually eventually gets ownership transferred to some big company and they just stuff the IP in a drawer and forget about it.
I was at a game company that got acquired, there were various game IPs that were part of that. The acquirer was interested in only a few of them, but they would get all as part of the deal. I inquired as to whether they would be interested in letting me buy one of the IPs that they didn't care about, and was told unless I made a 6 figure offer it wasn't even worth it for them to get the lawyers involved to consider it. Needless to say I didn't do that and the IP involved (and the related source code) is now locked away forever, not even sure who owns it now.
- ghusto 2y agoIn a way, I wish people would just leak the source for things like this by posting it anonymously as a torrent, for example. It's the ethically correct thing to do in a broken system.
- trashface 2y agoI suspect the reason we don't see more of that is because most game code is very distinctive if not outright unique. For companies inclined to retaliate legally, its probably pretty easy to come up with a plausible set of people who might have had access to it.