On 01/07/15, Todd Yatzook said the following...
 
 TY>  NB> Okay. Their website has said that for years, and will probably contin
 TY>  NB> to do so. I've heard quite a few bad dealings with them over the past
 TY>  NB> couple years, though.
 TY> 
 TY> I believe I told you about that about a month ago or so as well. I
 TY> actually got direct confirmation from the lady that owns Metropolis and
 TY> Gameport that the guy that handles the door game registrations is hella
 TY> lax about it because "they don't pull in much money".
 TY> 
 TY>  NB> I also believe that Michael Preslar isn't developing LORD anymore, an
 TY>  NB> hasn't since 4.08 was released. I remember hearing something in the
 TY>  NB> lines that Gameport screwed him over 1) in his cut for continuing
 TY>  NB> development, and 2) wanted to charge him an outrageous price to buy o
 TY>  NB> the source completely.
 TY> 
 TY> I think I told you about this as well  =) Talked to Mike directly, he
 TY> hasn't touched LORD in a long time partly because, yeah, they haven't
 TY> paid him a royalty check in years now.
 TY> 
 TY> Also, it was Jay Hodges, Seth Able Robinson and a couple others that
 TY> expressed an interest in buying it back but they couldn't ever find who
 TY> to contact. Phone calls lead nowhere, emails never got answered. I
 TY> actually found her on my very first try, talked to her for about 10
 TY> minutes about all of it  =) When I mentioned they were possibly offering
 TY> around $3,000 or so, she said "Oh, that seems really
low". Rumor has it
 TY> they paid Seth Able about $10,000 for his games, so I can see her
 TY> reluctance. But still, $3,000 for something she'll never get close to
 TY> over the life of her ownership? Pfft.

Sounds like if somebody wanted to reverse engineer the program, and
reintroduce it under the same name, then there would be nobody there to stop
them from doing that.

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