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- From: lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex)
- Subject: Re: Battletech: The Great Debate.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.015908.8333@netcom.com>
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 01:59:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.003017.10160@u.washington.edu> foregone@stein.u.washington.edu (Carl Chavez) writes:
- >There is Mechwar for the IBM, which I haven't seen yet; and there is
- >Mechforce for the Amiga, which is like the Solaris VII rules.
- >
- >You know, the funny thing about Mechforce is that it's rules are very similar
- >to the Solaris VII rules, but Mechforce came out in 1988/1989!!!
- >
- >Stephane, could you elaborate on the origin of the Solaris rules so we
- >can be sure that FASA didn't rip Ralph Reed off?
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- |ASA couldn't have "ripped off" Ralph Reed, as they bought Mechforce
- and all rights to the game from him. Paid him a tidy sum, too. Add in
- the hundreds, if not actually thousands, of shareware payments he got,
- and is still getting from copies that are still in circulation, and
- Reed turns out to have made a pretty penny. I doubt that he's all
- that crushed that he can't distribute it, anymore. FASA could have
- simply sued the pants off of him for copyright infringement, but they
- decided to be "nice," instead.
-
- |)on't expect to see the game on store shelves any time soon, though.
- FASA isn't in the business of software publishing, so they'd have to
- get someone else to publish it for them. Doing that would be difficult,
- because 1) It's only for the Amiga, and few companies are willing to
- work in that market, anymore, and 2) It used to be shareware, so
- whoever published it would have to make substantial improvements to it
- to get people interested enough in it to buy it. Combine the money it
- would take to "update" the game, to the money it would take to "print"
- and market the game, and point all that money in the directon of the
- Amiga market only, and no one's going to want to touch it.
-
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