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Off-Topic => Games => Existing Games => Topic started by: GroudonRobotWars on May 23, 2013, 06:57:54 PM
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Atari filled for bankruptcy back in January, now it appears they are selling off their gaming assets.
The major assets being sold include
Roller Coaster Tycoon Franchise which is going for a minimum bid of $3.5 million, Test Drive Franchise which is going for a minimum bid of $1.5 million and Total Annihilation going for a minimum bid of $250 thousand dollars.
There is currently no word as to what will happen with all of Atari/Infograms ips as of yet. Meaning that the future fate of franchises such as Baulder's Gate, Alone in the Dark, Robot Arena and more are unknown.
Atari hopes to make $22 million through the auction.
Atari's last published video game was Special Forces: Team X which released February 6 2013 on Steam and Xbox Live Arcade.
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/05/23/atari-auctioning-off-game-assets-in-july (http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/05/23/atari-auctioning-off-game-assets-in-july)
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watch as someone buys the ra2 source for $1.
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we need to somehow contact whoever does that
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Why don't we buy it :gawe: DSL3 could be RA3
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we need to somehow contact whoever does that
That won't be for a few days right now; all Atari has done is ask the judges to allow this auction to happen. Once it does, we'll need to see exactly how much Atari wants for the Robot Arena IP (if they sell it at all) before we can get a move on.
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I honestly think RA2, If they sell it legitly, May go in the ten-thousand, maybe high one thousands.
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Doubting this but do you think anyone would make an RA3 if they got the IP for it?
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I assume it will be packaged with a bunch of other games, and the guy who buys it won't even realize he has it.
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Lets chime in money and sweep the Atari Market :trollface
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The TA franchise better go to a good home.
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Let's pray that someone picks up Robot Arena that actually cares about it. My hope is that it gets a Wii U release at the very least with online and Miiverse support.
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Awesome, I was just trying to get back into this game (been having some problems with the PC that all of my games are on, and I haven't really tried to get it fixed up since then in either 2010 late/early 2011 until now) and I see this news.
I hope that someone buys it and we can get something new with RA2. I'd love to see someone make a new game like this with built in programs for making custom components and arenas.
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Yeah, you were the guy that made all the Destroyers. Please stick around. Oh btw, DSL 3 beta has been released.
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Planning on it, I haven't been able to play in a while, hopefully once I do get everything with the PC fixed (had to wipe the HD around the time I stopped posting, but I still have my RA2 files on a flash drive, and there is still some issue with Windows XP installing correctly) I'll be able to get back to playing regularly.
I saw that the NAR AI pack got much bigger too, so I'll need to download that again too.
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Let's pray that someone picks up Robot Arena that actually cares about it. My hope is that it gets a Wii U release at the very least with online and Miiverse support.
Robot Arena is probably dead...
...but, perhaps the new owner could release an open RA2 on Steam?
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Let's pray that someone picks up Robot Arena that actually cares about it. My hope is that it gets a Wii U release at the very least with online and Miiverse support.
Robot Arena is probably dead...
...but, perhaps the new owner could release an open RA2 on Steam?
Thats pretty much my guess if they something with RA2 at the very max.
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RA3 being fanmade..... Heh..... Would be pretty neat.
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Buy the rights and build functioning combat robots from Robot Arena 1/2 :cool: .
Dibs on Emergency!
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Holy crap it's Joe! Where are all these old members coming from???
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Holy crap it's Joe! Where are all these old members coming from???
Why can't just say "welcome back" or something like a normal person instead of jizzing your pants when an old member comes back?
Sonny is probably right though. They will most likely sell off the older or less popular games in bundles.
Or it won't be for sale... I still think the source code for RA2 was probably lost somehow and they just don't want to admit making such a stupid mistake.
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Perhaps somebody should contact Grabriel Interactive and see if they still have the code and how the community can go about buying it.
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This is going to be interesting to see how this unfolds.
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I really do hope that it gets picked up by a company that might make good use of it. It would be great to see a revival especially by someone other then Atari. I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but not holding my breath. On another note for 15 million we can buy the actual rights to Atari itself. Just a thought, then we can burn it to the ground for not just giving us the rights to a game no one else has cared about for a long time.
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If this crazy turn of events actually happens, we really need to combine funds and send someone out there to go check it out. This is our biggest chance at securing this game's source code we have ever had. The problem is, Atari may have deleted it by accident around 2004 which explains the lack of updates after that point. Also, like others have said, it may be bundled in with other games, and whoever wins that auction will probably consign the holy grail of Robot Arena to a warehouse, never to be seen again.
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The major problem I see is that even if the game is sold on it's own the price tag may be too large for any of us to afford. More then likely though Atari will bundle it, and sell it to someone who will never know what they have.
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Robot Arena was originally Infograms IP which is were the first and number 2 came from, RA was not Atari's IP until the two merged. It also does not help that after Robot Arena 1 failed to do good so Infograms re-branded the IP as a bargain bin game which does not really help a lot with the IP so it could very likely be put in a bundle with other odd or forgotten IPs or it will be alone for a low price.
Although it would be most likely that the IP will be put in a bundle simply because of how niche and unknown the franchise is, kinda like the same thing THQ did with some of their small IPs such as Titan Quest and Summoner which were put in a big bundle with other IPs.
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It also does not help that after Robot Arena 1 failed to do good so Infograms re-branded the IP as a bargain bin game
It was always a bargain-bin game. That's all Gabriel makes. Anyways, do we even know if Atari owns this game? The publisher doesn't always own the IP. For example, Nintendo published Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie, but Rareware maintained ownership of the IP, which is why they have been able to make (and remake) Banjo games since their Microsoft acquisition.
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As far as I understand, Infogrames and Atari didn't technically merge. I always read that Infogrames bought the company that was known as Atari at the time and began using the Atari branding for themselves because of how recognizable it is. The name "Atari" is just better for marketing due to it's history in gaming.