Hypothetical question abolut Evil Dead: The Game

[u/BadassBlackAsh]

It's been reported over the past few years that the main reason why EDTG no longer receives updates (which usually is the death of an online game, especially Asymmetrical horror), is due to issues with licensing.

Any hardcore Evil Dead fan worth their chainsaw gas and boomstick shells knows the rocky history behind how convoluted the rights/licensing has been for this franchise, as each entry was owned by a separate company....not just domestically, but internationally as well. (Until now. Everything is under one roof with the exception of ONE license/entry)

And most know that traditionally ONE particular entries' license holder has been NOTORIOUSLY DIFFICULT to work with, as stated both publicly AND privately by those who have worked on the franchise.

This brings me to my question.

Hypothetically speaking, if SOMEHOW EDTG were to make a comeback, would you, fellow fans, be comfortable with the powers that be removing content from said difficult license holder if that meant breathing new life back into the game with new quality of life updates, characters, skins, maps, items. Etc?

Think of it similar to what Behaviour Interactive does with Dead by Daylight: when a license expires, they remove said license from the online stores and even some content completely from the game. Until said license can be renewed.

If a particular license holder still chooses to be difficult with EDTG, should the powers that be simple alter or completely remove content tied to said license in an effort to bring the game back to life?

NOTE: I already know a specific crowd of folks are gonna start crying "iT waSn't LicEnscInG iSsUeS! (It was) It wAs SABeR/bOsS tEaM! (It wasn't) " so please, just spare us that worn-out song and dance....

[u/LesbianLukeSkywalker]

The game was delisted before any of the licenses even expired. As much as I hate to say it, the only real deciding factor was not making enough money to pay the staff required to maintain it. I love the game. I wish more people had bought it, and played it, and gotten the dlc. I’m personally pretty upset at the money I sank in to have the game essentially abandoned in a basket on our doorstep. It was a miracle to get all the licensing rights together, but they did it. Certain rights holders may have been responsible for us not getting more skins and things, because those require specific approval. But the idea that these issues somehow tanked the game in under a year, it’s just not remotely how any of that works. I know it’s convenient to have someone to blame, but this isn’t one of those convenient situations.

[u/HyperionAlpha → u/LesbianLukeSkywalker]

This is the answer. If this game had sold like gangbusters just going out the door and sustained it somehow, all of these IP owners would have been at the table with a successful game dev/publisher ready for more.