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[Sebatianos]

Originally posted by Alf Hari@Nov 24 2005, 05:35 PM
Anyway, there should be some type of opt-out clause in an ESA protection deal, so that companies can choose for their software to become 'Abandoned' after say a decade or two. Problem is, things aren't so simple and I'm sure it's hard to make it so everyone wins.

Well as you yourself said, the copyright holder is the one who gets to decide what happens to a game. ESA is just a group that protects the copyrights of the companies that pay them. So if the company decides to release a game into public after 2 years - ESA is not going to prevent that.
The problem is that companies that bought other companies out probably don't care a lot about the older games. They simply see the good name of a game they have copyrights for as an investment. A sequal would really sell well if the original was a cult game.