“I came across this at a very sad point in my life, it was on a hard drive on a vintage computer I bought off Amazon,” Marshall explains on the expansion’s GitHub page. “Literally this essentially saved my life, I was going through a divorce and just happen[ing] to come across something like this was insane.”
All the original devs are gone, it would be a shell of its former self. If the original developers are still together somewhere, we would be better off getting a new IP.
What do you mean “gone” did I miss some kind of dev genocide after 2005?
Yes, lots of layoffs and devs just moving on.
Ah, so they still exist, but because they aren’t still making stuff for you they no longer have any right to the things they created. Got it.
They have made stuff for me, just getting them back together to make another XCOM is very very unlikely. Do you understand how IP ownership works?
Yes. Do you?
You DO understand that just because the original developers don’t still work in the same room that things do not become public domain, right?
I think you are confused. I am simply saying, the developers, the individuals, who designed and created the reboot series are no longer working at the studio who owns the IP “XCOM”. Unless they are all rehired by 2K, them individuals cannot develop another XCOM. Do you understand now?
Why? Xcom has its first game released in 1994. The IP has been around for a long time.
Because the industry has changed a lot over the last decade and XCOM would be more likely to be dragged through the dirt than to be faithfully resurrected.
Technically we already had XCOM 3. Apocalypse wasn’t half bad, despite the weird realtime/turn-based combat system.