Hi community! I'd love to know who currently holds the rights to the freelancer distribution license. We could give this game a "Second wind" so to speak if we could acquire the license and distribute the game as freeware or "abandonware" advocate it on steam or other digital distribution platforms and include the mods like Discovery on the workshop etc. Because while I understand that many people have copies of the game downloaded off the internet without valid licensing, it makes it a lot better playing a game knowing that you haven't "stolen" the software.
I'd love if a dev or admin who has been in contact with anybody from the original Freelancer team could post here. Thanks!
As much as I am happy that you acquired some comedy from this, but what the hell are Microsoft holding it on to so dearly for? They have made their money, they are not actively retailing it. They are literally sitting on a game that is older than a decade and just keeping the rights... Because.
Who knows, they might suddenly have the bright idea of making a horrible successor that aims at a completely different audience yet ends up pleasing nobody. It's happened before, although EA is more notorious for it. However, I can seriously imagine a bastardized Freelancer game being released in the wake of Star Citizen/Elite Dangerous to get a piece of the "space game renaissance".
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