Vriff 21 Posted October 19, 2012 Has anyone ever tried to just ask Bioware/Obsidian for permission to port? The Witcher 2 Devs have given permission, and with the age of the game, I don't think it would really matter anymore. Anyone? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Extreme110 4 Posted October 19, 2012 Well, as much as I would like to port KotOR over to the #2 engine, I can sort of see why people are saying no. I'm not sure what you're talking about with The Witcher, but that was an inhouse-created fiction. That is, the company that made the game developed the story (and I assume Atari may have given them some creative freedom with the license, though Atari probably owns the franchise). Star Wars is owned by George Lucas, who gives permission to LucasArts to make a game, who give permission to a specific developer to make a game based on a certain part of the fiction. BioWare/Obsidian have no control over the fiction, and can't just make anything Star Wars they want (remember how Obsidian got denied to make that content patch?). tl;dr LucasArts said they could only make a game and that was it, so you'd need to ask LucasArts and it's debatable whether they'd give you permission or not. P.S.: Probably misunderstood what kind of port your talking about, but the logic is the same. EDIT: It's very likely someone is about to bring up the EULA. This is one of the things I've had many debates about in the past, LucasArts's EULAs. I came to the conclusion that while they may have to right to impose penalties if you breach parts, the likeliness of them actually taking action is low to non-existent, unless you're making money or doing something very bad with the product... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
