8-Year Fan-Made Game Project Shut Down By Activision
Found on Slashdot on Sunday, 28 February 2010
They have now issued a cease and desist order to a team which has worked for eight years on a fan-made project initially dubbed a sequel to the last official installment, King's Quest 8. This stands against the fact that Vivendi granted a non-commercial license to the team, subject to Vivendi's approval of the game after submission.
They are going after a fans who invested more than 8 years of work into a project which is based on a game series that had its last release back in 1998. Talk about digging up ancient IP and using it to seriously make fans angry. I could somehow understand the move if King's Quest was still a huge seller, but it's been out of shops for 12 years now. It's not like this was an illegal version; the team got a fan license but now they decide to tear it up and stomp on the pieces. What a shameful move by Vivendi/Activision.