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PL1:

I've got no special knowledge on their marketing strategy/research/timing, but "follow the money" is a reasonably good way to determine their likely actions.


Scott

Sjaak:


--- Quote from: BUCKETHEAD on January 03, 2013, 08:50:33 pm ---Fully understood.
But I ask?
Why doesn't Mickey just release the Official Arcade Port himself?

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Just guessing, but they would have to make a pc friendly version of the game, that runs on all sorts of different hardware/videocards. They would have to create a distribution channel, arrange for support, add some sort of copy protection and last but not least advertise the game.

It would cost tons of money and the potential market is about 7 people that would pay for the game (That's how many people are actually contributing to this project).

BUCKETHEAD:

That makes sense.
I'm just thankful your willing to do a playable version for our cabinets.
Thank you! Sjaak.

ChadTower:


--- Quote from: PL1 on January 03, 2013, 08:18:07 pm ---If cost of shared software > cost of lawyers  ==> Lawsuit likely.

Cost of lawyers >cost of unshared software ==> Lawsuit less likely.

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Intellectual property has different rules.  Sometimes companies will take a legal costs loss in order to protect IP because if an IP owner knowingly ignores third party use of IP then future users can credibly argue that they forfeited their copyrights/trademarks when they allowed free use by others.  It muddies the waters quite a bit when that comes into play.  It's the "why sue me but not them" defense and it can be successful depending on context.  Some companies will sick lawyers on anything that moves from a pirate to a 3rd grader's science project.  Atari was notorious for that.  A monster like Disney has their own staff of permanent lawyers that have to be kept busy to justify their salaries.

I wouldn't get too concerned with this guy's game until you've seen evidence.  There is just way too much talk going on around FIF to take it all at face value.

BadMouth:

I imagine the guy over on KLOV will probably give the game to a small circle of people he trusts not to make it available online.

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