I kinda regret not getting the Star Trek games when they were on sale last time. Hopefully they're still here on holiday sale, or at least we'll get a farewell sale like some other pulled games.

Funny thing is that each one of those Interplay blowout sales listed like 57 million games at discounts like 90% off but only if you bought all 57 million of them, but if you decided you only wanted 56,999,982 of them then they were like 50% off and the price shot up from like $25 to $99 or something like that just for unchecking one or two games or whatever. Talk about killing individual game whimsical purchases...

I really don't like those kind of "bundle" sales personally and usually pass on them unless a high percentage of the games I actually want or might go for anyway. The universe knows I've bought enough such bundles on GOG in the past, but it's a really different case if the bundle has like 40 games in it or so and you own like 5 already and only want like 5 or so more of them. Can't justify buying 35 games to get 5. (Roll the real numbers however to match the actual amounts, just examples pulled out of my arse.)

So I had to largely say 'nay' to Interplay sales of the past. Not sure if the bundling was GOG's decision or Interplay's or a combination but the granularity of purchase sucked enough rocks to keep my wallet slammed shut. :) Maybe if they allowed people to buy individual games at reasonably discounted rates or had smaller granularity or had a sliding-scale discount more games would have been sold and Interplay wouldn't be where they are today. Hard to say, but .... NEXT!

Like other's have said, I'd rather see THQ Nordic pick up the goodies from Interplay and do good things with them. Most other companies are up in the air from there, and while some have suggested CDPR or GOG pick them up, I think that's a horrible idea personally. I get it on the ideological side of things and even agree with that side, but the business and execution side is where that idea fails for me. CDPR is a video game studio developing a specific game at the moment, not even 2 or 5 or 10 games, just "a" game, and while their games have been successful to date they're not the size to be gobbling up the carcasses of other failed companies, nor do they have 20 game studios that they can farm out old IP to. What would they do, take people off working on CD2077 to work on 90s Interplay games? Makes no sense, they're a game studio not a game janitor emporium. GOG does game janitor sort of stuff (and I mean that term in an affectionate manner to be clear), but GOG has WAYYYY too many things on their plate right now as it is and needs to finish what they started already. If they picked up a small number of games maybe, but I can't see GOG or CDPR "buying up Interplay" really. We love them but they're not IMHO big enough to do that without spreading themselves thin and only delaying the completion of Galaxy and a half dozen other incomplete things happening right now.

A company like THQ Nordic is both DRM-free friendly and IMHO shown themselves to be good at doing this very sort of thing while being a friendly company towards gamers. Chances are if THQ Nordic acquired any or all of those titles, not only would they remain in the GOG catalogue (perhaps with a short departure due to complex IP transfer behind the scenes stuff), but they probably might even get updated and enhanced. I think THQ Nordic is well ran enough too that they'd know how to make the best judgment as to which games they could bring back to life profitably and let any others pass along to someone else perhaps, unless they got... wait for it... all the games offered in one huge bundle for 90% off but only 50% off if they bought all minus one. :oP

What I really wanted was Freespace 2 ,Decent Freespace Battlepack, Sacrifice and Star Trek™: Judgment Rites.
I hope they wont get removed soon.

Apparently, the sale is an all-or-nothing sale of the intellectual property. The pitch document primarily focuses on the catalog's prospects for mobile gaming in various forms. It also brings up the prospects of VR and media tie-ins. In all, I imagine it's pretty standard stuff.

Edited for brevity and clarity.

I think they're seriously overoptimistic about their IPs. I doubt there are many mobile gamers who remember any of the IPs they still have, or cares. Frankly, I can see some companies picking up Messiah or Sacrifice just because the names sound cool, and maybe Earthworm Jim and Descent still have some appeal, but the rest...

Space sims are unpopular so Freespace isn't worth anything any more, Dark Alliance is useless without the D&D rights, and Kingpin or MDK or the rest of them were never that successful anyway.

Did anyone mention freaking EARTHWORM JIM!?

I want him revived so bad. I hope Doug Tennapel can get involved with his creation again.

From the sounds of his Twitter, don't count on it.

Are you kidding? I'm willing to bet most mobile gamers haven't even ever heard of Interplay... or its shambling corpse.

if that is true they are signing their own death warrant
some of their IP's might have some appeal when picked off in ones or two's but all of them ?
no way

not too mention that a good chunk of them are licensed titles
hasbro or paramount wil want the video games based on their properties and likely not give a fuck about the rest

Indeed it is. The document was interesting to go through.

Who wouldn't want to buy an IP like Boogerman?

Well, considering how well the attempt at a revival by the series creator went...

Obviously, but you don't need to have heard of a developer to know its games. There are tons of people who know of the Fallout games but only a small percentage know the series was originally published by Interplay.

Anyway, I personally hope nobody buys their IPs and they can be picked up independently on the cheap when Interplay is forced to file for bankruptcy. It would probably be the best outcome for everyone except the current Interplay execs, and those guys definitely don't deserve any money imo.

If Interplay somehow fails to find a buyer and goes into bankruptcy, then one of the first guys in line will be Parallax - they would take the IPs just to get the name Descent back.