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warm@kbin.earth ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

All the devs have gone, it would be a shell of its former self. If the original developers are still together somewhere, we would be better off getting a new IP.

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albbi@piefed.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Why? Xcom has its first game released in 1994. The IP has been around for a long time.

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- warm@kbin.earth ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Because the industry has changed a lot over the last decade and XCOM would be more likely to be dragged through the dirt than to be faithfully resurrected.
  
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- Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Technically we already had XCOM 3. Apocalypse wasn’t half bad, actually, despite the weird realtime/turn-based combat system.
  
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UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
What do you mean “gone” did I miss some kind of dev genocide after 2005?

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- warm@kbin.earth ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yes, lots of layoffs and devs just moving on.
  
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  - UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Ah, so they still exist, but because they aren’t still making stuff for you they no longer have any right to the things they created. Got it.
    
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    warm@kbin.earth ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    They have made stuff for me, just getting them back together to make another XCOM is very very unlikely. Do you understand how IP ownership works?
    
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