| 11-11-2006 04:16 PM | ||
| Ghost Pig |
Back again! This campaign took something of a nose dive during the time I was off-line, after writing up a brief summary of the campaign activity so far (including a list of companies that I’ve contacted and their (lack of) responses), I’ve been persuaded that it might be a good idea to continue the campaign - especially as we couldn’t expect the industry to change just because of one article and a few emails being sent to them. I intended the next stage of the campaign to be to send out hard copies of the campaign with a covering letter (there’s a template of this, a printable version of the campaign, as well as some addresses in a zip file that can be downloaded – here) to Companies who published some of the older titles that we want the ability to play again. I would really appreciate any further inputs/feedback that people could offer at this stage (the constructive kind, rather than the “This won’t work and you’re stupid for trying” kind please). Also, if you’ve contacted any publishers/developers with a link to this campaign and obtained feedback, it would be great if you could email/PM me, and I could update the list I linked to previously. I’m not saying the templates that I’ve created are perfect, but they’re a good starting point. If someone can think of a more appropriate way to word the letter, with a turn of phrase that will make publishers give further consideration to these ideas – then I’d be happy to change it and credit the appropriate person. This ‘campaign’ seems to have consisted (as far as I know) of me chasing the publishers, emailing news sites with the article, and posting in numerous forums (as well as making my friends tarnish their reputations by insisting that they help me spread the word on the forums that they frequent). This really should have been more of a group effort, with others chasing, posting and educating people about what we would really like to happen (however unlikely). As I say, I'd welcome any feedback/suggestions you may have! |
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| 10-07-2006 10:14 AM | ||
| _r.u.s.s. |
Oh, i was little confused by "i don't think so" 
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| 10-07-2006 10:11 AM | ||
| Abi79 | Sorry. That was a typo. I meant to say "I couldn't". | |
| 10-07-2006 09:57 AM | ||
| _r.u.s.s. |
they are selling blackthorne for game boy advanced, not for pc http://www.blizzard.co.uk/blizzclassic/ and where did you find warcraft selling?  |
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| 10-07-2006 08:04 AM | ||
| Abi79 |
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SupSuper @ Jul 8 2006, 05:02 PM) [snapback]242225[/snapback]</div> Quote:
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| 09-07-2006 08:48 PM | ||
| _r.u.s.s. |
like those?=] http://www.abandonia.com/games/en/422/Warcraft.htm http://www.abandonia.com/games/en/56/Blackthorne.htm |
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| 08-07-2006 02:02 PM | ||
| SupSuper | Doesn't Blizzard still sell their old titles? | |
| 08-07-2006 08:01 AM | ||
| Quintopotere |
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Ghost Pig @ Jul 7 2006, 08:13 PM) [snapback]242157[/snapback]</div> Quote:
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| 07-07-2006 10:12 PM | ||
| Tom Henrik |
Well, I think it sounds promising, really 
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| 07-07-2006 08:13 PM | ||
| Ghost Pig |
Just as an update (as I know you've all been dying to know what's happening), following on from Team17's response, the Bitmap Brothers have emailed to say that at this moment they are working though their titles to make them work on XP and will be releasing them for sale on their web site in the near future - which makes me very happy indeed. Also, Electronic Arts mailed to say: Quote:
The second part of which hints at a possible happy ending... The campaign itself hasn't really achieved much, but at least I've learnt that some of my old favourites have been entirely forgotten about! I do intend to try to organise a physical mail shot, especially as companies like Blizzard don't have an appropriate (public) email address - no doubt I shall re-emerge and tell you more about that once I've had the time to plan. |
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