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Is it true Brian Fargo owns Wasteland Rights?
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:44 pm
by Maximous
Over at NMA in an interview with Feargus Urquhart....at the end....NMA says that Fargo "Owns" Wasteland.....is that True?!?!?!?!
Thanks
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:58 pm
by King of Creation
Wrong Forum....
But, yes, Fargo has secured Wasteland. It's actually pretty old news.
Here's a snip from an interview with him:
GameSpy: Do you potentially have access to any other IP from Interplay's past, or be interested in working on it?
Brian Fargo: Well normally I wouldn't comment on it, but because of the public records of it ... We've also secured the Wasteland trademark. And there's no issues with that. That was actually kind of a funny story. Konami got the Wasteland mark and I went to Konami and asked what they were doing with it. They were using it as one of their umpteen-million Yu-Gi-Oh! characters, like Wasteland Rick or something crazy like that. And I said "Can I use it?" and they said "Oh no, we want to use it as one of our many characters." And finally they decided that they're really not going to exploit it anymore so they let the mark lapse and I stepped in and filed it and now it's been granted to me. So obviously that's the way I was hoping EA would behave, which may or may not be the case. I'll know in the next two or three weeks.
So there ya have it.
OK....that last line
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 4:22 pm
by Maximous
Thanks.....I read that article too....it was the last line...about EA....and Waiting 2 weeks that confused me. That is an older article...however, Brian said he did have the rights to Wasteland....and that waiting business....well that was a long time ago. I just hope EA didn't step in and muck it up is all.
Thanks Again.
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:06 pm
by Briosafreak
He had to struck a deal with the Yo-Gi-Ho company, since they owned the wasteland name because of an expansion they once did. Sounds silly but it`s true.
Re: OK....that last line
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:49 pm
by Role-Player
Maximous wrote:Thanks.....I read that article too....it was the last line...about EA....and Waiting 2 weeks that confused me. That is an older article...however, Brian said he did have the rights to Wasteland....and that waiting business....well that was a long time ago. I just hope EA didn't step in and muck it up is all.
Honest question time: why the fuckety fuck do people write things with an excess of punctuation like this?
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 1:56 am
by Retlaw83
Maybe he was out of breath.
Re: OK....that last line
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:14 am
by Blargh
Role-Player wrote:Honest question time: why the fuckety fuck do people write things with an excess of punctuation like this?
Honest question time : Why is excess punctuation so apparently grating to you ?
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:38 am
by Franz Schubert
Honest question time: Shut the fuck up?
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:48 am
by King of Creation
Now, now...let's keep it civil...
Say PLEASE next time.
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:51 am
by Blargh
Franz_Schubert wrote:Honest question time: Shut the fuck up?
Honest question time : Do you really expect your suggestion to be acted upon, if so, do you therefore intend to conduct yourself as a twat ?
Re: OK....that last line
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:56 pm
by Role-Player
Blargh wrote:Honest question time : Why is excess punctuation so apparently grating to you ?
Because it doesn't serve any purpose, and because i can't come up with a valid reason for people to go to such lenghts to post like that. It's also disruptive if used massively in a board. And excess punctuation murdered my pet canary.
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 1:34 pm
by S4ur0n27
It uses bandwitdh
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 6:43 am
by Blargh
@ Role-Player - That's fair enough I suppose, also I extend my sincere condolences for your poor canary.
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 1:06 am
by Spazmo
Hey, King, when you move a topic, tell it not to leave a 'shadow topic in old forum' because that essentially defeats the purpose of moving the thread.
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 4:58 am
by Franz Schubert
LOL King got served.
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 5:46 am
by King of Creation
I like to let my shadow grow....