Comment on Finally bought a physical PS2 copy of Most Wanted — for the kid in China who couldn't pay back then
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 20 hours agoThe only thing preventing a re-release of any of these “EA Trax” era titles is that they’re not willing to pay to renew those licenses.
RabbitMix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Usually yes, but sometimes no. For a recent example, all the “cover cars” from past Forza Horizon games are available as loyalty rewards in Forza Horizon 6… except the McLaren Senna from Forza Horizon 4 because the Senna family has decided in the years since FH4 that they will no longer allow anyone but McLaren to use the Senna name for any price. If Playground wanted to remake FH4 they’d have to drop the Senna from the car list, which would be understandable but really disappoint fans. Now I know that that exact scenario is rare, but that’s not the only reason people deny rights to things that they once did: sometimes like Toyota in the 2010s they decide they’d no longer like to be associated with those kinds of games, sometimes even figuring out who owns the rights after decades of mergers, buyouts, and business failures makes things unclear no matter how deep you dig, there’s a lot of ways things like that could go wrong.