Question for the day; Which intellectual properties or licenses can you think of that belong a company that should not own them? And you wish another, better steward company had them instead?
Question is inspired by that interview that came out today with Paradox basically saying that Bloodlines 2 is a dead end product for their company and that they will not personally make Bloodlines 3. At best they will license it out to someone else. They basically admitted that they don't want anything to do with it anymore because RPGs are not their forte, their publishing business is a shitshow and, most importantly, they cannot monetize these kinds of games endlessly like they do with their grand strategy stuff. So between the troubled development history, the shit tier development house and the shit tier publisher, I think it's safe to say that Bloodlines 2 has the tallest mountain to climb to approach anything resembling being good. My gut feeling is that they will push the game out and immediately cut it loose like they did with Lamplighter's League and that Star Trek game of theirs (i.e. no post launch support whatsoever). And so I really wish World of Darkness belonged to someone else like CDPR perhaps?
Another property that come to mind is Tribes that is owned by that hopeless company Hi-Rez. They've made two insultingly poor Tribes games and sunk them with their lousy business practices.
Then there's No One Lives Forever. Nobody knows who owns it but somebody has to. Could make a good bit of money but just figuring out who does and putting the old games back up on Steam and GOG. I don't even dare to dream for a NOLF3 because almost no one makes high budget, single player FPS campaigns anymore.
Disney is probably hoarding some properties in their famous Vault that are impossible to get to. Monkey Island for example could be such an evergreen property but we get one game per decade and it's a miracle even that happens.
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