Given how attainable some of these properties seem to have been it would have been plausible for a trusted developer to crowdsource fund the purchase of, for example, the Master of Orion brand along with resources for development at like $300-400k. Even if there was some way for a representative of the collective fanbase to purchase the brand/code through crowdsource to become public domain would be an interesting twist, the total opposite of a F2P company holding the series hostage.

Keep in mind that those numbers were the starting point for bids. Brad Wardell has said that Stardock pitched in the 7 figures for MoO, and they still didn't end up getting it.

What is RCT?

RollerCoaster Tycoon franchise

I'd love to see something done with BLOOD, and Lemmings. The idea that any of these games might just sit on a shelf somewhere though rather than be used is just..ugh.

That auction date has passed.

Lemmings was never an Atari franchise, it was created by DMA Design (aka Rockstar North) and published by Psygnosis (aka Sony Studio Liverpool). So it's in Sony's hands.

TLDR, there's no apparent info on RCT's status.

It's unclear. It may have been passed in (it had a 3.5 million dollar reserve, cf MoO had 100k, IIRC) but equally it may be listed with other big ticket items like Atari branding at a later point. The legal documentation suggests that 24 July may be a critical date, but it may be so only for the sales we know about rather than all of them.

Regarding a german article from golem.de Master of Orion and Total Annihilation goes to Wargaming, Stardock got Star Control and Moonbase Commander and Battlezone go to Rebellion. Sorry for the german text, I will see if I find also an english article. There are no links in the article that confirm anything, but golem is normally not posting any rumours as facts.

Edit: Following the Rocket Paper shotgun link in the article I got to following page shown some legal text who owned which franchise.It seems that's the main source, decide yourself how trustful it is.

It's not official, it's just a document published by someone who created an account for it and linked by Rocket Papger Shotgun.

Edit: The document is from 07/19 and the upload date from 07/20/2013. Is that possible?

Hm. Well, thanks for the heads-up. I'm downloading all my Atari games. Was meaning to start backing up installers as I update my personal games catalog anyway, and I just got a brand new backup hardrive, so this is the perfect time for it.

I highly doubt that someone faked a legal document by Atari.

"Edit: The document is from 07/19 and the upload date from 07/20/2013. Is that possible?"

Of course you can upload a document from 19.07 on 20.07.

I'd say it's expected. The document had to be created before it could be uploaded. I'd find it odd if a document was put on the web before it existed.

True ;-) Maybe I should try it again: Fits that dates with the auctions?

Edit: Reading my text again I believe I should be more clear, so once again ;-) What I wanted to ask is when were the auctions and is it possible to release a legal overview of all bids on that date.