[The E]

Ask Interplay, I guess?

Personally, I am kinda astonished that they actually did anything given that their site has been as good as dead (and lacking in updates) since last November.

[Swifty]

I could have maxed out two of my credit cards and used a bit of my savings and the license would have been ours. OURS!

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Ask Interplay, I guess?

Personally, I am kinda astonished that they actually did anything given that their site has been as good as dead (and lacking in updates) since last November.

Maybe they bought it so they would have the whole FS package so they could sell it to keep from going bankrupt.

[Suongadon]

So... re-release on steam just in time for the super summer sales?

[yuezhi]

Why steam when it's on gog already, to raise the price tag?

[T-Man]

Same story on gaming site Kotaku, complete with interesting pic choice. Diaspora gets a mention too!

I doubt they'd try to shut down HLP or anything; with social media nowadays attempting to go against such a large fan base would be company suicide. Could even be some kind of protection tactic; I remember hearing about some scientists once patenting a piece of technology they were going to give away, simply to prevent others from patenting it for money. Could be wrong there and know very little about all this, but I shall have faith (urgh, famous last words ). *taps wooden desk a few times*

[Swifty]

It's kind of derpy to me when people talk about Freespace 1/2 HD when we already provide an HD edition. :\

[MatthTheGeek]

Well, we don't have millions $ marketting. Obviously a lot of people are going to not have heard/not care about our work here. If we were going to let that discourage us, we'd have given up a decade ago

[Luis Dias]

What if they release an HD version in Steam (or whatever) that becomes incompatible with SCP? Is that even possible? (probably not, they would mostly tweak the executable and not mess up with tables and so on, but still)

[The E]

To release an HD version, they'd first have to rewrite the engine to support modern resolutions, modern texture formats, modern APIs.... Really, what are the odds of someone going to all that effort for such an old game....

[MatthTheGeek]

Does Interplay even has any kind of skillset to do that ? Can they do anything else other than hoarding IPs ?

[Luis Dias]

This is the same Interplay that released a new version of Battle Chess, or MDK2 HD or other silly crazy things. JFYI.

[mjn.mixael]

To release an HD version, they'd first have to rewrite the engine to support modern resolutions, modern texture formats, modern APIs.... Really, what are the odds of someone going to all that effort for such an old game....

I see what you did thar... 

[The E]

omg you guys

*ahem*

It seems that the inability to read the court documents and analyze them for their contents is spread far and wide. None of the reporters involved have picked up on these things being residual rights, not the full IP package.

Also, check out the gamasutra article about this and its comment section

[mjn.mixael]

  Oh Derek...

[Suongadon]

Why steam when it's on gog already, to raise the price tag?

The game price, or the IP price? Don't see the former happening, though the only comparable case is SS2, which is the same on both sites. The latter, well, kinda hard not to improve the value of a long-lost IP if it gets put up on the largest PC gaming client-thingie (and sells).

& lawl @ the Smart-feller: Not sure if he thinks 250k is a serious offer, or that he wants people to think it was one... 

[The E]

250k was a serious offer at the time he made it (which was several years after FS2 had run its commercial course, and long before GOG appeared on the scene).

[karajorma]

I should point out (before anyone posts anything) that technically Derek Smart is a board member. So be nice.

[Suongadon]

Ah, guess so (though Interplay didn't sell for that, so...). I had thought that the offer was made between three and four very polite and considerate years ago, rather than the eight years it was. :oops:

[Darklord42]

Well all the same, I guess it's a good thing we didn't have to compete with him for the residual rights in an auction.  He seems the type not willing to let go of a grudge and of his stay here wasn't exactly the best.