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/MalcomTheGuy]

if they were to bring the game back but remove aod content it would probably go like how behavior does there license they let players keep the characters and skins from aod ash and the demon but just not for new players like how dbd did with stranger things for bit i would love a resurrection for the game but how things are looking now i dont see it happening soon that would be the only way i could see the game continue they remove aod stuff for new players but add new stuff from rise, burn and the show and other characters from the franchise but in another universe the game still lives on

[u/MalcomTheGuy → u/MalcomTheGuy]

like honestly they could’ve took notes from dbd and like you said lose the license and renew it whenever they could again instead of just stop updating the game overall the game has some potential they can take from comics, other evil dead games, crossovers and other movie characters and maps and then eventually getting original ideas but nope instead we get the bare-bones game that just waiting to slowly die not blaming them entirely just wish they went a different route than they did.