Additionally, they wouldnt "permitt" the license. They dont care about making a few million dollars to risk their reputation of business, or they would have approached us by now to cash in on our mod popularity.
They like to operate as owners of their property which makes sense since thats their legal right. For them to come to us to having not been permitted in the first place, pay for source licensing, and then say to their reputable business partners activision "youve got a sister competition hope thats cool" just wont fly from business or legal standpoints.
Foreseeably, the ONLY chance in hell is if activision lost the rights and danjaq/MGM decided to do away with finding a replacement and hence by then we'd be out of beta and they might think about approaching us to recoup their 10 years of poor investment. Our pull is we have the product ready and receiving players approval, completed all the gamemodes, standard characters and maps.
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Thats not even the first hurdle of theirs. Then, they have to strike a deal with nintendo, who cut down the xbox revamp/remake done by a professionally studio which was all licensed until they needed to broker the profit breakdown once it was ready for approval. Nintendo was the one who basically said "no way we are taking such a small percentage, over 50% or bust"
If they agree, then the final hurdle is M$ needs to allow nintendo to get way more money for the IP carry over rights they defaulted with rare coming under the M$ banner before being obliterated since the 1997 title. For microsoft it isnt so much needed that they make more, but that they make an even profit to the other parties. So nintendo would likely again be the stopping power to any deal.
Really I dont think anyone on the team really wants to be part of a deal with all those elements, wed make maybe 20%, lose a section of our mod supporters and be branded sellouts. When you divide the percentage cut we'd be given between the 50 or so who have contributed good enough portions to the project and had loyalty throughout to garner a slice, it'd be maybe 50 thousand dollars a piece.
Ive made way more than that in my job since I became a developer, and I really think this community is more about being fan-based. If the team has a goal to prove itself as a studio level outfit, the next project would be where to give that a shot. My view anyhow
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Thats just for anyone who hasnt heard me explain this 15 times since 2006
I really would like for us to be able to take donations and use the money to build server infrustructure and competitions etc, to enhance the community instead of relying always on dedicated clans and such to provide them. But, thats not the official stance of the team since we dont want to risk our being left alone status among the rights holders.
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