psychetool Posted January 25, 2005 Posted January 25, 2005 Has anyone thought to contact LucasArts about letting Monkey Island 1 & 2 onto the web scene as abandonware ? (Similar to Beneath a Steel Sky) Their website does not carry any mention of the old titles and it seems pretty much the only place to find the games these days is on eBay! I think making MI abandonware would actually help to boost revenue of the last 2 (MI 3 & 4 ) games and the one coming in our future. (MI5) Has anyone contacted LucasArts to try and work something out ? I'd absolutly love to play these old classics but have been having a bitch of a time trying to work out finding the games and then getting them onto my computer. (stupid 5.14 disks!) Anyways, I think this idea has potential, what do you all think ?
psychetool Posted January 25, 2005 Author Posted January 25, 2005 Care to elaborate ? They certainly are not making anymore profits from these oldies but goodies and there is a whole community just waiting to snap them up. I am quite positive they would boost revenue as well for future MI installments, as you could hook people with the free games and then have them coming back for more. (Think monkey island crack)
Remi Posted January 25, 2005 Posted January 25, 2005 I'd be surprised to see LucasArts do that... They haven't done much in terms of giving stuff away in the past anyway.
Thrik Posted January 25, 2005 Posted January 25, 2005 Heh. It's nice to be optimistic, but as long as they can keep making money from it (which they probably do), they'll keep selling it. This is LucasArts we're talking about here. As for Monkey Island 5, I hold no faith in that being any good either. Oh, woe is me.
Udvarnoky Posted January 25, 2005 Posted January 25, 2005 Supposedly LucasArts will be putting Monkey Island 1 and 2 back in stock again. Supposedly. Originally posted by Thrik As for Monkey Island 5, I hold no faith in that being any good either. Oh, woe is me. Heh. I'd have to have faith in it ever being greenlighted before I could predict it being good or bad. Judging by the number of adventure veterans left at the company, I can't say I'd be very optimistic at the prospect of another installment from LucasArts. Maybe I could scrounge up some hope.
ADutchGuy Posted January 26, 2005 Posted January 26, 2005 The idea sounds good enough. Why don't you try and contact them? You get my vote... ADG
Joshi Posted February 1, 2005 Posted February 1, 2005 Has this not at least been tried yet? I mean, the scummVM team managed to get Revolution to make Beneath a Steel Sky abandonware, has anyone actually confronted LucasArts about it?
Udvarnoky Posted February 1, 2005 Posted February 1, 2005 I'm pretty sure, unless I'm making this up, that the SCUMMVM team did contact LucasArts way back when about such a thing and they weren't too excited about the idea (naturally).
Joshi Posted February 3, 2005 Posted February 3, 2005 I assumed as much that LA wouldn't do it, I just wondered if anyone had actually tried.
Samnmax221 Posted February 10, 2005 Posted February 10, 2005 It's still a liscensed title and I don't think anyone realy wants to see their hard work go out for free. I sure you could find it as abandonware (Only labled as such) But thats bad Idea since it is Illeagal
Joshi Posted February 11, 2005 Posted February 11, 2005 I'm betting that if Ron had his say, he would want them to go out for free, if only so more people can play and appreciate the games. But LucasArts don't see it that way, from what I can see, they're still selling. At a guess, I think LA still haven't fully given up hope on a Monkey island 5 and if they do plan to do that, they'll bring out the others in a 'special super woohoo package' just to up the hype (LA being soo much like a film company these days) and therefor sell more, which can't be done if the games were abandonware.
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