GOGers i need your help. Please sign my petition on change.org to wake up Ubisoft and Dargaud to rerelease this amazing masterpiece. A lot of us missed it and a short time promo or full rerelease on gog would be priceless. Lets make it happen. :)

Petitions won't work...but wishlisting might have a better chance.

Here is the link to the XIII re-release wishlist. I hope GOG will bring it back!

You'd have better chances of Bethesda signing a deal with GOG and releasing their games on day one, than XIII being rereleased.

I always thought it's some kind of license issue that made it necessary to remove the game. So i don't think it'll coming back.

Not necessarily.

When a petition garners enough signatures, enough being even as little as a few hundred signers depending on the place and the cause, it does get noticed, and can have an influence in making a change.

However, before lending your voice to a petition, read and research it, as you must be sure about what that petitions says, and who it is that is sponsoring the petition (presenting and influence organizing).

Petitions are a collective voice. So few people engage politics and business interests to complain or try to change bad policy, in this age, and this is one way that you can reach people who are operating in exclusive circles and other various bubbles. Maybe nothing gets done, but at least you have made your concerns and complaints known to them through a public notice.

As I remember it, that was the case. Ubisoft licensed the comic to make the game and that license expired, so while Ubi does still have the rights to the game, they no longer have the rights to the IP the game is based on so they can no longer sell it. Its a problem likely to occur with any licensed game GOG might get, hence we don't have things like Star Trek games here.

One exception is if the game's rights-holder is also the license-holder (like Disney with Star Wars/Indiana Jones and Valiant Comics with Shadow Man).

Well in that case Ubisoft only needs to buy Dargaud to get XIII back to GOG ;).

Edit: Or they need to acquire Média-Participations which is the parent company of Dargaud and also Anuman Interactive.

Or Ubisoft could end up bankrupt, selling their properties left and right and, then, Dargaud buying the game's rights for a pittance. Not saying that it's necessarily realistic, but it's another way for the game to be rereleased.

Actually that sounds like the better way :).

Those aren't exactly what you would call "licensed games" in the literal definition of it A licensed game is when the rights holder of a particular IP contracts an unrelated third party to produce a game for them, like Paramount/CBS contracting Activision to publish Star Trek games, which were further contracted out different development studios to create. Things like the Star Wars games were both developed and/or published by the original rights holder, LucasArts as a division of LucasFilm (now wholly owned by Disney), so no rights licensing took place. That means with rare exception, there is very little, legally speaking, to get in the way of a Star Wars release while games like XIII and Star Trek titles have multiple layers of rights held by several entities with varying expiration terms. Frankly, we were lucky to have XIII when we did.

Maybe not Star Wars/Indiana Jones, but Shadow Man was originally developed and published by Acclaim and I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream was originally developed by The Dreamers Guild and published by Cyberdreams. In both cases, the rights for the games reverted back to the original license holders (Valiant Comics for Shadow Man and Harlan Ellison for I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream), when the publishers of both games closed down.

Voted for it!, I had the physical version and enjoyed a lot of it, awesome comic look with lots of action, if it gets released digitally, I will be very pleased if they do a rebalance of the final boss, is too overpowered.

voted, great game