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"Disney owns the LucasArts catalog, and Disney only calls you if it needs to."
I despise that fucked up, broken aspect of capitalism in which an entity that had fuck all to do with creating a thing can end up owning a thing, because money. And I don't mean like buying a car you didn't build or a loaf of bread you didn't bake or whatever, obviously. I'm talking about giant corporations buying up smaller companies just to get their piggy hands on said company's intellectual property, which then gives them the right to do whatever the fuck they want with said IP. It's bullshit, but it's capitalism, and... that's a pretty redundant statement right there.
Ron Gilbert did not work for Disney when he created Monkey Island. I'm not sure that Ron Gilbert has ever directly worked for Disney at all. (Though, I suppose Ron Gilbert making Return to Monkey Island involved "working for" Disney to some extent, at least.) However, he did work for LucasArts when he made Monkey Island, and because of that, LucasArts, not Ron Gilbert, owned Monkey Island. And because of money, Disney now owns what's left of LucasArts, and because of that, they can do whatever the fuck they want with Monkey Island and anything to do with Monkey Island, and there's not a damn thing Ron Gilbert can do about it, yay or nay. And that sucks ass.
Ron Gilbert has even offered more than once to buy the rights for Monkey Island back, but of course, why the fuck would Disney do that, when they can make more money licensing out Guybrush Threepwood for shitty DLC for shitty MMOs?
I despise that fucked up, broken aspect of capitalism in which an entity that had fuck all to do with creating a thing can end up owning a thing, because money. And I don't mean like buying a car you didn't build or a loaf of bread you didn't bake or whatever, obviously. I'm talking about giant corporations buying up smaller companies just to get their piggy hands on said company's intellectual property, which then gives them the right to do whatever the fuck they want with said IP. It's bullshit, but it's capitalism, and... that's a pretty redundant statement right there.
Ron Gilbert did not work for Disney when he created Monkey Island. I'm not sure that Ron Gilbert has ever directly worked for Disney at all. (Though, I suppose Ron Gilbert making Return to Monkey Island involved "working for" Disney to some extent, at least.) However, he did work for LucasArts when he made Monkey Island, and because of that, LucasArts, not Ron Gilbert, owned Monkey Island. And because of money, Disney now owns what's left of LucasArts, and because of that, they can do whatever the fuck they want with Monkey Island and anything to do with Monkey Island, and there's not a damn thing Ron Gilbert can do about it, yay or nay. And that sucks ass.
Ron Gilbert has even offered more than once to buy the rights for Monkey Island back, but of course, why the fuck would Disney do that, when they can make more money licensing out Guybrush Threepwood for shitty DLC for shitty MMOs?
