Since we've seen the recent release of the old Worlds of Ultima games, it made me think of the original Wasteland. I'm not sure who owns the rights to the game series. I would assume since Wasteland 2 is being made those guys have the license.

Possibly close to Wasteland 2's release a deal with go through to put the original on here for sale?

Let's hope.

EA was publisher, Interplay was developer

http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/games/wasteland

I think InXile now owns the Wasteland trademark but EA still owns the original game. Maybe they could cut a deal with each other, but I wouldn't hold my breaath.

no, sadly inXile doesn't have the license for Wasteland 1.. Of course, once upon a time Fargo didn't have the rights to do Wasteland 2, so who knows?

I'm wondering if GOG should introduce a MS office style paperclip into their posting page:

"It looks like you're writing a get this game on gog request! Would you like me to just submit it to the wishlist, or just piss off and leave you alone?"

The annoying thing is EA probably isn't going to do anything with the game. It's just 'sitting there' and no one is going to take the effort to re-release it.

Wasted potential. (See what I did there?)

Without knowing the issue of course, I would say he doesn't hold the property on the game. But he holds the trademark of the name "Wasteland".

This can mean two things. EA has a deal with him already that allows them to sell it here or GOG can negotiate with both parties and get it here. Which they should be doing since, like, yesterday.

Therefore seeing it here on GOG is a real possibility. Especially since EA has shown an active interest in releasing their older games on GOG. (Unlike others...) If you write it on the wishlist, I will vote for it!

In the meantime, you can just get it from Abandonia.

No. It just wouldn't work. Let's face it: nobody except about 0.001% of the gaming population reads an EULA or a forum sticky. Why should they bother with an MS Office paperclip?

Frankly (and sadly) the biggest change for success would probably be to open a facebook group about it......

Yeah Abandonia was the ticket....

Thanks!

Over at the inXile forum, in the thread about the EA marketing stunt with the Origin KS-promotion, Brother None (modatator) had posted the following: I only hope that does not mean Origin exclusive.

Because having to use Origin to install, nay, not install, download, a DRM free game (face it, this won't exactly need Origin to run once downloaded) would be so horrible?

Yeah because EA has been just flooding the Origin store with old games from their vaults..
Seriously I doubt EA has none nor will have any desire to start plopping old 80's and early 90's games on Origin anytime soon. There main thing right now is to attract people to Origin and so far they been focusing on the games they feel the larger audience want which means newer titles they are producing and lately seemingly branching out to the indie/crowd sourced games.

In short there copying what Valve did with Steam early on and as I said a old tile based RPG from the 90's really doesn't fit that bill if that was the case then they would of put the Ultima series, Syndicate, and so on on Origin.

At this point, it'd be easier to grab DOSbox, Wasteland 1 files from Abandonia, and create your own Wasteland icon with a configured shortcut to directly launch Wasteland.

>_>