![]() ![]() They themselves though are quite quick to emphasize that they are distributing and patching the original game and they do not refer to themselves or consider themselves the developers of system shock 2. It is however disingenuous to refer to them as "the developers" when describing their split of the price. I am very glad they did and are keeping the game alive by making it more readily accessible on modern systems. Night Dive was able to license these rights from the insurer and to distribute the game. Along with its debts and obligations they also assumed its existing contracts (what this means is that for all intents and purposes they would fill Looking Glass's role in any existing contract going forward.) So since the trademark reverted to Looking Glass as scheduled in the original contract with EA, this means it too is property of Star Insurance and Meadowbrook insurance group. As part of agreements made when they closed, Star Insurance and Meadowbrook Insurance Group assumed all existing rights and properties icluding the rights to System Shock 2, except for the trademark. ![]() The developers of this game do not own any of the rights anymore. In this case however I know that to be untrue for at least one of them - System Shock 2. I would normally dismiss any concerns I had over this as Humble Bundle has built up so much good will that I could usually just assume they meant the people who made the games. In this case however they are simply going with the more nebulous "the developers" in lieu of telling you who is getting any of the money for any of these games. Normally they are pretty good in enumerating who the developer split is actually going to. ![]()
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