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Posted March 14, 2017
hello guys.

when are you guys going to bring us dune franchise to gog. as you have heard a lot of people have been asking/voting for the franchise so when will this be available?
Posted March 14, 2017
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Unfortunately it's not up to GOG.
Posted March 14, 2017
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whys that then when its gog that produce thes games and get the licences for them.
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w1015455: whys that then when its gog that produce thes games and get the licences for them.
I wasn't aware that GOG produced the Dune games.

We need someone in here that knows more about the current licensing of that franchise. Last I heard it was in limbo.
Post edited March 14, 2017 by tinyE
Posted March 14, 2017
Listen, it doesn't work like that. These things are not easy, much less licensed material.

Dune is owned by multiple parties, some of which just plain are not interested in renewing the license for the games to sell on GOG, or Steam, or anywhere. Sorry, but unless everyone involved can play nice, GOG can't sell any Dune games.
Posted March 14, 2017
The Dune games are currently "locked" because:

1) EA are not interested in re-publishing these games and ask to re-license them (as far as I know, you can always ask EA)

2) The Frank Herbert property has not been interested recently in licensing Dune to anyone third party (until now that is, since they're doing a reboot of the Dune movie).

What I can see is Dune licensing a company to make a new Dune game along with the reboot movie, nothing else sadly.

You are however free to ask Brian Herbert on twitter about it.
Posted March 14, 2017
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w1015455:
well it's not upto gog but you can always pickup Dune 2000: GruntMods Edition.
Posted March 14, 2017
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Prah: The Dune games are currently "locked" because:

1) EA are not interested in re-publishing these games and ask to re-license them (as far as I know, you can always ask EA)

2) The Frank Herbert property has not been interested recently in licensing Dune to anyone third party (until now that is, since they're doing a reboot of the Dune movie).

What I can see is Dune licensing a company to make a new Dune game along with the reboot movie, nothing else sadly.

You are however free to ask Brian Herbert on twitter about it.
What he said.
Posted March 14, 2017
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CARRiON-XCII: Listen, it doesn't work like that. These things are not easy, much less licensed material.

Dune is owned by multiple parties, some of which just plain are not interested in renewing the license for the games to sell on GOG, or Steam, or anywhere. Sorry, but unless everyone involved can play nice, GOG can't sell any Dune games.
Particularly a licence as valuable as the Dune franchise is. Frankly, It would cost GOG big bucks to get the franchise,probably much more then they could expect to make from rereleasing the games.
Post edited March 14, 2017 by dudalb
Posted March 14, 2017
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CARRiON-XCII: Listen, it doesn't work like that. These things are not easy, much less licensed material.

Dune is owned by multiple parties, some of which just plain are not interested in renewing the license for the games to sell on GOG, or Steam, or anywhere. Sorry, but unless everyone involved can play nice, GOG can't sell any Dune games.
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dudalb: Particularly a licence as valuable as the Dune franchise is. Frankly, It would cost GOG big bucks to get the franchise,probably much more then they could expect to make from rereleasing the games.
Are you quite sure Dune games sold well enough to warrant that?
Posted March 14, 2017
When you can lobby the imbeciles who crafted the US Copyright and Trademark system to be less of a mess, that's when.
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dudalb: Particularly a licence as valuable as the Dune franchise is. Frankly, It would cost GOG big bucks to get the franchise,probably much more then they could expect to make from rereleasing the games.
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Plokite_Wolf: Are you quite sure Dune games sold well enough to warrant that?
I believe Dudalb is talking about the Dune franchise in it's whole, not only the games.
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w1015455: whys that then when its gog that produce thes games and get the licences for them.
what?
Posted March 14, 2017
Last I heard Night Dive had reached out to Herbert Properties LLC, and Brian Herbert or Byron Merritt had no interest.
Posted March 14, 2017
I hope we didn't scare away the OP.
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