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Cook: Just like Guillaume stated during the conference, rights for both Syndicate and System Shock series are divided between couple companies and we need some time and work to deal with this.
Of course we'll do whatever we can to solve this and we hope to release those awesome classics sometime in the future. If we will, you'll know about it for sure.
Without a large hype campaign I hope. Maybe I'm alone on this but it feels great to log into GOG and randomly have something like that for sale. Duke Nukem and Blood are a couple of such examples.
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SLP2000: But there might be more, I don't know the case.
That's it. But you see, Interplay had to okay their releases with Bethesda and clearly Bethesda would not have okayed something with that name given that they were developing Fallout 3. The "Trilogy" was pretty much a case point that Interplay had not complied with Bethesda's requirements for publishing the old Fallout games.

As for Hasbro / Atari, Atari bought those games. Just like Bethesda bought the Fallout IP at around the same time. Just like Atari how would have to buy the gold box games before they could be sold again (until, as you say, 2017). Atari owns the rights to the infinity games. Hasbro owns the D&D license. Without a deal between them those games aren't going to be sold anymore.

Just like a lot of Star Trek games.

Just like the gold box games.

If Hasbro bought those games then you'd be seeing them listed as the publisher. Now I don't know exactly what the deal GOG did with Hasbro involved. It could have been reassurance. It could have been necessary for Hasbro to okay it. Either way, if Hasbro could allow other publishers to release D&D games then their legal spat with Atari would have been entirely unnecessary. The fact that they needed to fight to free themselves of Atari proves my point beyond doubt.

The bottom line is: none of what we're discussing makes the gold box games seem any more likely to make their way onto GOG. Either they're bought and released here or they're not and they won't be.
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Navagon: snip
Ah, yes, you are right that Atari bought rights.

Anyway, I don't believe that Atari would spend their money on SSI crpgs, just to sell them here.

The only way I can imagine is a multi-party agreement between Atari, Ubi and Hasbro. It's not impossible to do, it's very hard, but not impossible.
Post edited June 04, 2011 by SLP2000