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[The Fifth Horseman]

Either ESA has decided to maintain an indefinite protection or Vivendi intends to re-release them in some form.
Exact details are unknown to me at the time.

what a bummer... were you guys notified of this at least? or did esa send you a nice letter, threatening to sue you out of your pants?

anyway, a rerelease would be fine; maybe they finally understood that the age of a game doesnt touch its sales-potential, as long as its a good game

anyway, keep us up to date, if you get any news on a possible re-release by vivendi!

[Titan]

Actualy... ESA has NEVER threatend us in any of the letters.. they actualy asked us politly to remove the contence since it was porperty of theire members.
We complied without any whining or arguing..
Ever since then we've had a good dialouge with them and keeping the tone at a good level.

Abandonias goal is primarly to NOT harm the developing companies in any way, but rather indirectly promote theire old games. Remember, WE pay for the hosting, and destribute them at NO cost to whom ever is intrested in them.

We'r only targeting games that are rare and hard to find... and above all, not beeing sold.

ok, then thats some good news.

i did not intend to badmouth esa in any way; it was just what i perceived to their usual way of work, sending out the "nice" letters.

im glad to hear that its not entirely true, maybe even not true at all. (would spoil the glorified image of lucasarts i had as a teen, when they still made adventures)

point is, developers of good games should get all the kudos they deserve, and have any right to stop any illegal distribution. im the last who's not willing to pay for good work. problem is, some of the best pieces are NOT available for regular sale... anywhere... a thing i cant understand... they wouldnt have that much of costs putting them in distribution, be it full-priced or nice-priced...

[The Fifth Horseman]

Many of them don't see any possible income from doing that either.

[Giray1337]

Hey when can I download these games finally?

[Sebatianos]

You can not, the game is protected!

Can we finally have a question or a comment about the game itself, and not the (il)legality of its status :notrust:

[madcrow]

A comment about the game itself? Fine. It's fun to play, the jokes and sight gags are hilarious and Lucasarts was retarded for stopping making graphic adventures.

which leads us back to the discussion about abandonware... i know..

pity... wish LEC and the other esa member would change their minds.

anyway, thank you guys for the site, for the possibility to obtain games that are abandonware, and for keeping us up to date with news about our all-time-favourites!