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King's Quest 9 Lives! 25

Posted by Zonk from the yay-for-fan-projects! dept.
NotFamousYet writes "After having previously shut down the development of King's Quest IX: Every Cloak Has A Silver Lining, Vivendi Universal made a press announcement saying: 'After extensive evaluation, Vivendi Universal Games is pleased to announce that the fan developed trilogy project 'The Silver Lining' (previously known as King's Quest IX: Every Cloak Has A Silver Lining), based on characters from Sierra Entertainment's 'Kings Quest' series, has been given approval to continue development. We look forward to seeing the first of its three upcoming chapters, 'Shadows', completed soon.' Check out this very promising fan made sequel!" Commentary and more linkage at GameSetWatch.
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  • Why don't these fan-made games... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Blakey Rat ( 99501 ) on Saturday December 10, 2005 @02:08PM (#14229301)
    Why don't these fan-made games ever ask for permission *before* they spend hundreds of hours on development? It seems like it would save a lot of trouble if/when the rights-holder decides to shut them down.

  • Props to Vivendi (Score:5, Insightful)

    by BTWR ( 540147 ) <americangibor3@yah o o . c om> on Saturday December 10, 2005 @02:21PM (#14229353) Homepage Journal
    After the original story [slashdot.org] appeared, it consisted of dozens of comments, mostly complaining how Vivendi shut down production of a fan-made game of a well-loved series (that unfortunately ended so poorly [gamespot.com]). I sided with these comments, despite knowing that Vivendi had a point in trying to control their copyrights (for future precidents, etc).

    But in this case, I think Vivendi should get their dues. This is a good thing done by them, and hopefully will continue in the future. It just seems like most slashdot posts, hell most internet posts, are people bitching about not getting what they want. In this case, we got what we want, and (gasp!) - I'm leaving a positive post!

  • Wow (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Xarius ( 691264 ) on Saturday December 10, 2005 @02:44PM (#14229460) Homepage
    I seriously did not see this one coming, most companies would have buried the project and let it rot for all time. Think bnetd!

    Kudos to Vivendi, thanks to them and the people working on these games.

  • Egad! Profit? (Score:2, Interesting)

    by chudgoo ( 812186 )
    1 : Create popular franchise then kill it.
    2 : Wait for deprived fans to get restless enough to create their own productions based on dead franchise.
    3 : Threaten legal action unless they give you all the content they've created.
    4 : PROFIT.

    Seriously though why didn't they just change the names/locations/backstory enough to
    come off as a separate, original work?
  • I'm pleasantly suprised. It's good to know that just because Vivendi has had at least a part in making Sierra what it is today, it won't doom efforts of other sto carry on things in its spirit.

    Now we just need more Quest for Glory games.
    • I think most older people would respond that Vivendi is what killed Sierra and why it is what it is today. I present exhibit A) Leisure Suit Larry Magna Cum Laude.

  • Yay (Score:2, Interesting)

    by CableModemSniper ( 556285 )
    "We are the ants king Antony, we're coming to help King Graham!" Sorry, V was the only one I played, but this is awesome news.

  • How unusual (Score:2, Interesting)

    by ArwynH ( 883499 )

    And definitly not the outcome I'd expected. Let's hope this sets a good precident for fan games to come. Yey for KQ!

    Now I just have to hope for a Space Quest continuation...

  • I definitely understand wanting to protect your copyrights and all, but it would seem to me that if you have a product or characters or whatever with such a great following, that it would be beneficial to allow the fans some room to play. I would think a community keeping a game alive like this would only make their property more popular.

    Now all I'd like to see is Chrono Resurrection [opcoder.com] allowed to be released.
  • They did shut down bnetd and freecraft.
    But now they are giving the OK to KQ9...
  • ...I think - I sent them a VERY unhappy email as I'm sure many others did.
    Here is basically what I said:


    Dear Vivendi,

    I am a 33-year old male with a steady job and a sizable disposable income. I buy at least one or two games a month for myself, and I often buy games for my friends if I think the game is cool enough. That being said, I was very displeased to find out about your treatment of the fan-created sequel "King's Quest IX: Every Cloak Has A Silver Lining". I will now use my decent sized gaming budg

  • I know it's the principle that matters here, but.. (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Has anyone seen the actual game so far? It looks pretty amateurish. If it's been in development for years and it still looks this bad... you gotta wonder. Will it ever be complete? What's the ETA? Maybe they need to take a step back and, I dunno, go to 2D. This really isn't intended to be a flame on the game or anything, but frankly, I was expecting a lot more after all the work that supposedly went into it.

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