Now, how could this be? The complexities of contract law, those legally binding existing contracts, and how those pan-out for the corporate stakeholders involved. There's 1 long-shot hope I see for LOTRO, though I'm no contract lawyer, and this is just a "case example" from another MMO I play on and off:ĭisney buying the "Star Wars" IP and converting all prior Expanded Universe lore to the garbage-shoot named "Legends" - normally would have - thrashed the development of any existing "Star Wars" IP MMO.īUT- Bioware, a subsidiary of EA Games, is still running and actively developing SWTOR - the last bastion and vestige of the ability to tell stories in "Legends" SW, pre-Disney-Era Canon. We also don't know whether Daybreak and EQ7 would find it worth it to negotiate in favor of maintaining current contractual arrangements with the new buyer with mutual benefits across the board for all parties involved in said negotiations- and how far they'd be willing to fight for the rights if it came to that. What we DO know is that there's multiple stakeholders directly involved with LOTRO- not just SSG holding-onto a raft left floating from the U.S.S. I'd like to point out what we don't in fact know:Ī- What the legal contracts state for EQ7 or Daybreak's involvement in the development of the game, let alone SSG.ī- How those contracts and those stipulations would impact LOTRO's existence RE- the sale of the gaming rights and vice versa.Ĭ- Obviously, we don't know who would buy the gaming rights and what those contractual negotiations would look like with the lawyers.
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