• Re: You can get anything you want... except more Alice games

    From Werner P.@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 13 19:35:31 2023
    Am 09.04.23 um 19:01 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:
    Except, it doesn't mean that; not really. While American McGee was the
    'face' of those games, he doesn't own the IP and EA - who down own
    that property - could perfectly well make another "Alice" game without McGee's involvement.
    EA has a long history of burying companies and franchises for good!
    Cough *Ultima* cough, or the entire Origin backcatalog just to name an
    example, but you can basically say that about almost every company they
    have bought!
    So no there never will be another Alice and if there is one, the chance
    is high that it will be a mobile game with a ton of pay2win schemes
    included, like it happened with the last Ultima!

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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net on Thu Apr 13 17:03:59 2023
    On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:48:25 -0600, "rms"
    <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote:


    lol! I just snapped on this post's title reference, a week later! Well
    done Spalls

    In fairness, it is a very dated (50+ years!) reference.


    <sing-songs>

    You can play any game you want, unless it's an Alice game
    You can play any game you want, unless it's an Alice game.
    'Cause it's no longer being sold
    'Cause EA thinks it's just too old
    You can play any game you want, unless it's an Alice game.

    This song is called Alice's Games; it's about Alice and her games, but
    "Alice's Games" isn't the name of the game. That's just the name of
    the song. That's why I call the song "Alice's Games"

    Now, it all started 23 Thanksgivings ago, twenty three years ago, on Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went to Gamestop to buy a game by
    American McGee.

    Now, American McGee isn't in the game; he just wrote the game, in a
    Texas office with Rogue Software, and EA, the publisher. And livin' in
    Texas like that, they get a lot of wild ideas in their heads, and
    having all those wild ideas (seeing how they live in Texas), they
    decided to make a game about Alice in Wonderland.

    So we got to Gamestop and found a game about Alice in Wonderland, and
    we figured it would be a great idea for us to buy that game and play
    it at home.

    (etc. No, I'm not gonna continue; the song is a half-hour long!)

    (and with sincerest apologies to Arlo Guthrie)

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  • From rms@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 13 14:48:25 2023
    So, American McGee is retiring. And that means no more "Alice" games.

    lol! I just snapped on this post's title reference, a week later! Well done Spalls

    rms

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