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iron wrote:um, [Marathon was ] about 10 years old I think, give or take [when it was released as freeware]. As there's 3 games its not a clear cut answer But Myth's certainly in the same age range now.

(I added the parts in [ ] to put the quote in context)

Myth held its age better, I'd say. I did all three Marathons as they were released. Before them I played Pathways into Darkness, too -- my first FPS. It was scary!

Heh, back on my 60 Mhz 6100/60 PowerMac it was Pathways, Marathon, then Myth TFL before I got a newer computer.

iron wrote:I'd settle for them buying the rights to the Myth series, then releasing TFL & M2 as freeware as they did with Marathon.

I would rather like to see Myth IV but releasing Myth as freeware would be also great.

Some1 should write a wise petition : )

I really have a hard time seeing them spend the money to buy back Myth just to release it as freeware.

Them buying it back just to release as freeware is rather pointless, I agree. But them resecuring their own intellectual properties and history......and then happening to release the source code......

As much as I love the myth storyline. I think I'd be just about as happy to see them release a modern myth clone as release a myth IV. Give everything a different name, but give me the same gameplay with awesome graphics.

TarousZars wrote:As much as I love the myth storyline. I think I'd be just about as happy to see them release a modern myth clone as release a myth IV. Give everything a different name, but give me the same gameplay with awesome graphics.

That is what halo was originally going to be.. before they realised it'd be more awesome as a 3rd person shooter. Obviously it changed a lot more before it reached us, but thats how halo started out.

Why does Bungie have to buy it back to release it as freeware? Can't Take2 just release it as freeware?

If it doesn't make Take2 money, they won't bother.

Thats my general view on them.

Yeah, they will never ever let it go... why? ... becouse :/

Best option now would be some1 ( maybe from Magma - *looks @ Doobs!*) writing a nice&wise petition "Bungie plz rebuy Myth - we still love it".
We will all sign it, wait and see if anything will happen. We cant loose anything so its worth a try for sure. C'mon.

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Yeah I'm sure Take2 is thinking something like "Well if they want it than it must be profitable, we better hold on to it"

The basic idea, I believe, goes like this:

If we hang onto it and do nothing, it doesn't cost us anything we haven't already paid.

If we hang onto it and do something with it, it might lose us a lot of money.

If we sell it off and it goes nowhere, we get a piddly little amount of money, maybe just enough to pay the bookkeepers involved in the sale.

If we sell it off and something fantastic happens with it, there will be a great number of angry shareholders wondering why it wasn't us doing that something fantastic and making lots of money, or in lieu of that, why we didn't just get more money for it in the sale.

Sitting on the property is the least risky path.

~J

well said archer.

I really don't think its a matter of risk from their point of view, they just don't care.

Take2 has top men working on it. Who? Top. Men... In other words it will collect dust until the end of time.

I think the best shot you'll ever get to the Myth Source Code and IP is to wait until Take2 enters bankruptcy and then petition the judge to buy it. An auditor will be required to make realistic and market valuation of their assets versus their liabilities and then you contact the Bankruptcy Court directly and offer them $2000 for the assets which will probably be 4 times what the court will value it at, and the judge will force them to sell it to meet their liabilities.