Re: Licensing

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 16:22:47 +0000

>>(Not so) hypothetical Question:
Suppose we have a game that's already a huge success in the freeware market.
Are there companies that will pay for a license to host it, what kind of
legaleze (ownership, copyright, etc) does this usually incur, and, of
course, how much money does it make for the programmer?<<

If its already playable for free, then why would people play another version?
We'd probably license a game if there was a way to make a reasonable profit
selling it.
>>Yeah, alright. I'm talking about Eressea. It's a success in the german PBeM
community (1.300 players in the german-speaking market, running for 4.5
years, and almost finished the localization, so english, russian, german, or
even multilingual games are just a matter of translating a simple resource
file).<<

Sounds like fun.

>>After putting so much work into it over the years (70.000 LOC after several
major revisions) we're naturally a little curious about the possibilities.<<

There aren't very many PBM firms in the world with the resources anymore to
license your game and make you any reasonable amount of money at it.  Maybe a
dozen of us.  But I expect you'd find some interested parties.  (I'd be
interested myself.)

Outside the PBM market you could look at licensing it to somebody who just
wants more web traffic, if its effortless to run of course.

Steve Tierney
Madhouse UK

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Licensing
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Thu, 02 Nov 2000 22:11:36 +0000

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"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Thu, 02 Nov 2000 22:11:36 +0000