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Is there anything stopping AH from Re-releasing a fork of HD2 as HD3 and putting it on Steam without the PSN requirement? (lemmy.one)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Main question in title. It sounded like the majority platform for the game is PC. What's stopping the devs from just re-releasing the game on PC without Sony as the publisher? Can the devs just abandon ship and start fresh, but without Sony?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That is likely covered by the contracts they signed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I know they likely have some ironclad contracts, but it probably wouldn't cover AH's "next" game, right? I'm realizing this is probably a silly question, but what recourse does AH have at this point? Did they just sign a contract giving away all rights to their game to the publisher?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

That is how its generally done yes, especially when there is such a large power imbalance between the two parties (one being a multinational corporate giant and the other a mid sized studio with only average releases so far). Maybe they even signed a deal for hd3 with them in advance as well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Whelp. That's unfortunate.