Hi Dark, Yeah, good point. In both cases we know that the companies are still in business. With BSC we know that Justin is busy with work and family so BSC Games has been sidelined, but not forgotten. While we don't know exactly what Draconis is doing i do know that they are developing a cross-platform engine, the same as I am, in order to port their titles to Mac OS. As I know this is going to be an extremely long and difficult process I'm not surprised we haven't heard much out of Josh. However, we do know Draconis still does exist, fulfills orders, and so on. However, someone less aware of their activities might assume their stuff is abandoned and do something foolish like pass their games around assuming they are abandoned or something. So you are right automatically assuming something is abandoned even if it is a company like Bavisoft is a poor president to set.
Cheers! On 12/15/10, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > unfortunately clemment, > > while to you and I and many people not updating your site and having > bouncing e-mails is sufficient grounds to say someone is no longer a > company, legally that's not how things work. If bavisoft are stil registered > as a company, --- which, by the fact their website is stil up, some orders > at least are filled, and they do to some degree stil communicate even if not > actuallying saying anything useful, they could quite successfully take > someone to court for simply claiming they weren't one. It'd be akin to > someone saying "Welll, that car was just left on the corner of the street > for two weeks, obviously nobody was owning it so I took it" > > As regards piracy, I was actually thinking of Draconis. There games are the > easiest to crack and redistribute, and they in fact haven't released > anything new for some considderable time. > > in fact I believe their last update was in 2008 which was a vista > compatibility fix to many of there games. > > the same could be said of bsc, even if their games are slightly harder to > crack. > > there is! evidence (which is to say there isn't), that they haven't done any > updating of there site sinse the vista patches, which is I think all the amo > some people would need. > > Pluss, i wouldn't personally like to see a situation where any tom dick or > harry could legitimately pirate any game they wished if they happen to feel > that the company hadn't communicated or updated, ---- that would not be > good, (developers would be in terror of their mail servers crashing). > > > Ultimately, it'd be a nasty precedent to set and probably end up doing more > harm than good in the end. > > Beware the Grue! > > Dark. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
