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West End Games For Sale!
Posted: 2008-07-23 08:47pm
by LadyTevar
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http://westendgames.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4621
The link is to their forums, so I broke it, but Eric Gibson, publisher of WEGs is seriously meaning to sell the franchise with all intellectual properties.
I'm tired of all the work for negative reward. No good deed goes unpunished, as they say.
WEG and all it's properties are for sale, and I'm taking bids. I've been talking with some of the more interested publishers already but I was recent bitched out (what else is new) for not offer WEG for sale to fans publicly.
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Eric Gibson
Publisher, West End Games/
Purgatory Publishing Inc.
Posted: 2008-07-23 09:07pm
by The Yosemite Bear
It's been so long, do they have any IPs left besides Paranoia?
of course the computer is always your friend.
Posted: 2008-07-23 09:38pm
by Tasoth
The Yosemite Bear wrote:It's been so long, do they have any IPs left besides Paranoia?
of course the computer is always your friend.
If they still have the IP for paranoia, I can see Mongoose Games snapping it up, what with them publishing the books and all.
Posted: 2008-07-23 09:42pm
by Hotfoot
Unfortunately, I think all that they really have left is TORG and maybe one or two more things. Their Fantasy, Adventure, and Space settings were more like generic templates.
I was REALLY looking forward to the WEG system going OGL-ish. Looks like that won't happen now.
Posted: 2008-07-24 02:25am
by Qwerty 42
I've got four bucks left over from the movies, that do?
Posted: 2008-07-24 03:40am
by Hotfoot
Tasoth wrote:The Yosemite Bear wrote:It's been so long, do they have any IPs left besides Paranoia?
of course the computer is always your friend.
If they still have the IP for paranoia, I can see Mongoose Games snapping it up, what with them publishing the books and all.
Same with Star Wars, I can see WotC snapping that up in an instant, what with them publishing the books and all...
Posted: 2008-07-24 12:06pm
by Solauren
Mongoose Publishing would be a prime contender to buy it.
I can see Wizards of the Coast, just so they can use Paranoia as the setting for a 4E-Future based system
Beyond that, I can't see anyone else really wanting W.E.G
Unless a fan has a few million dollars to spend
Posted: 2008-07-30 01:07am
by Ariphaos
Eric was a fan who bought it for a hefty chunk of change, charged a bunch of people money for a preorder that he never shipped and still, to my knowledge, has yet to get anyone a refund.
See here