Who owns the rights to kotor

By Basroil , October 5, in Obsidian General. Hello, this is mostly addressed at any Obsidian representatives who may be available for comment.

I am a law student and was just wondering how much in the way of rights a developer maintains over its creation in general. I'm sure it varies depending on the individual contract, but I assume the rights are all generally in the hands of the game's publisher, given the way the business seems to work. Particularly in terms of a monumental IP like Star Wars, I'm sure that any rights to anything in a developers game are forfeit.

Okay, I can, but then it's as a business decision rather than a principled one. I simply find it rather galling that Bioware had the nerve to retcon everything of particular significance about KOTOR II's plot explicitly so they can steal Darth Nihilus' "gimmick" for their own villain in TOR to make the players' characters into special snowflakes for being able to overcome him.

Also wrecking everything remotely interesting about Revan and the Exile as characters in the process. I suppose, then, my main question is how much, if any, right Obsidian maintains over its creation in this case, the entire premise of KOTOR II with the Exile's "wound in the force" and Nihilus' unique abilities.

I doubt there is much, if any, given that these take place within an extant canon, but I suppose that, given my grasp of the law which is admittedly only in its relative infancy , I have some wistful hope somewhere that Obsidian could file for injunctive relief and prevent Bioware from doing this to the only real interesting Star Wars characters developed in the past decade and deliberately wiping another company's work from existence in order to blatantly steal its concepts.

I'm afraid I've gone on long enough, at this point, and laid out exactly what my concerns are. I look forward to any sort of reply from Obsidian, if only for the sake of my own edification.

LucasArts owns the rights to the game. I doubt this is always the case, but with Star Wars? You can almost guarantee that they went into this hoping to wow everyone into getting the third game as a follow-up job.

Would it be worth writing to LucasArts legal team for an explanation. Phrase it as educational and you might get something interesting. Disappointed by Universe. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. The writer of that awful novel explained his motives Here. Basically he didn't think the Exile's powers were relevant to 'his' story so he ignored them but apparently it doesn't mean she doesn't have them anymore.

Of course, Bluepoint has always made it a goal of creating remakes to be as faithful to the original as possible, with the biggest changes mainly involving updating the graphics. Aspyr meanwhile has said that they intend to rework the game from the ground up with updated tech and gaming innovations.

Titles such as Final Fantasy VII and Resident Evil 2 have both received remakes that were acclaimed by fans both new to the franchises and old enough to remember the originals. Their gameplay, graphics and more received a total overhaul that brought them to modern-day standards of games while staying true to the overall story and feeling while playing.

However, both their originals and remakes were developed by the same studios even after decades. Aspyr is "working in close collaboration with Lucasfilm Games".

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