Comment by paradoxparalax | Hacker News Reader

Comment by paradoxparalax | Hacker News Reader

1997 was exactly the Year when the game Myth The Fallen Lords[1] was released. 'til today I think is the best game ever made. Please if there is anyone who works for Bungie or whatever company owns this abandoned game, whose community have worked hard for years to keep alive, without any help from the Owner, even reverse-engineered the server, because they prefer to keep the game dead and it's tomb abandoned then release the servers code, Please guys just Open Myth already, It's been 20 years! It is considered "retro" now, did you read that headline? The community must still be alive, even. seems that there is still a multiplayer server running. And it is a damn good multiplayer game to play even today, with very good chat interface for team communication. Maybe the best I ever saw in a game. Imagine what was this for a youngster in 97 to hear the sound of the 3.6 speed Dialed Internet Conection, after a long minute of making weird sounds, finally makes the rrrrr sound that you knew it means you are on the Internet and can Play this unbelievable thing...back then it was jaw-dropping.

1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth:_The_Fallen_Lords

You're barking up the wrong tree with Bungie - you need to contact 2K Games...and good luck on that. I know some people who have tried, both with Myth and with Oni.

Ok , thanks for that information, sincerely. Let's find some friendly agent to assume control of this 2K company then. Thank you. Actually, when there is Unity3D around, what is the point of them keeping it closed. They could still keep the Movie and Art rights, if someday Hollywood wants to make a movie of it or whatever dream they have of milking it somehow in the future. They might very well loose the value of the Art and Story itself when someone makes a similar Unity3D game with a passable Art and Story that buries their value, and now it buries for real. Can't understand what is the point of their reasoning keeping it frozen.

Take Two is the owner of 2K Games. Take Two has a USD 12.4 billion market cap. Take Two refers to 2K as a principal office. Quite the endavour for your friendly agent. Best bet would be to found a startup that greatly enhances revenue on old games by, say, automatically remastering them and them pitching to Take Two. You can't clever your way around 12 billion.

Another thought: firms this size usually have their own M&A-team. Obviously you could buy the IP at an offer they can't refuse (but you probably couldn't Kickstart). Might sound snarky but there doesn't seem to be a market for old IP in games, which suggests they will not take your idea serious for 'normal' market value. That might be pretty economic. Big game producers need people playing new games, not having too much fun with (better) games from the old days. The hedonistic threadmill is what makes their firm the current size. Don't distort that balance by opening up the retro market.

I see. Thanks. So they kill it, cut out it's head and bury on a salt desert so people will forget it exists and buy their new game instead. Still feels that something isn't quite right in this being the only reason, it's strange. But yeah, you are right, would need to call more than one friend to get 6B USD just for fun money, to risk on the game industry because of a personal caprice :D Your ideas were better, thanks.

Also in stupid „triple AAA” economy publishers consider tactic games too niche to be viable product.

They would try to turn it into mobile game or such.

They are big enough that they don't care unless you offer them _a lot_ of money or you know just the right people to talk to and have the correct connections.

Fantastic game, brilliant first player campaign.

There were a huge number of mods you could get for it from memory. Such as additional maps/campaigns to play through.

One of the first games I played online, the community was fantastic. Never managed to level up to get my crown :-( , it was a tough game to master online.

Is it possible to acquire the game on a steam like site?

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