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[–] GenitalHurricane 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Worth mentioning to anyone who is excited for a possible new version of this title but hates AAA ethics, OpenTTD is FOSS and pretty good.

Alternatively if you'd like a modern take on this, Mashinky is super good and was made by a 1-man studio. It's also beautiful. (And multiplayer!)

[–] Vikthor 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The first thing that crossed my mind is that they might try to cancel OpenTTD. Chris Sawyer reportedly wasn't too happy about OpenTTD but didn't too much against it, maybe recognising that it is a fan tribute. Nobody can expect that of Ataris's corporate lawyers.

[–] GenitalHurricane 11 points 2 months ago

This comment makes me sad because you are probably right. Mashinky it is!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not like they can do anything about it. OpenTTD does not even use any of the original assets anymore.

[–] Vikthor 1 points 2 months ago

The code might still be a derivative work.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This sounds rather bad for Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe (https://www.openttd.org/)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I didn't realize Atari owned most of those style games, they basically deadlocked that market to themselves, interesting

[–] Kelly 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They have a crazy history of buying and selling companies and IPs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_SA#History

When they have good times they buy what they can, then when they hit hard times it all ends up offered in a fire sale.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

thanks, patent laws

[–] RightHandOfIkaros 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Atari? Don't they mean Infogrames?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They renamed themselves to atari after buying atari

[–] Kelly 12 points 2 months ago

To add to the confusion Atari announced earlier this year that they would restore the Infogrames brand as a publishing label.

Now we get stuff like this :

[–] RightHandOfIkaros 6 points 2 months ago

Yes, so they mean Infogrames.

The current Atari is Atari in name only.