If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: He's not about that.Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. It's not about a lack of competition, he would love it if we supported the platform but not at the cost of another platform. We asked Gitelman if there weren't any strings attached - as there often is with these kind of deals. He just wanted there to be a good BattleTech game because there hadn't been one in so long and, that's how that happened and I'm pleased about that to."
"He had a chance to satisfy BattleTech fans by giving us the license and so he did. From his point of view this had nothing to do with money any more or anything like that or licensing, screw that from his perspective." He was a good boss when I worked for him and he's a fan of Jordan's. "Obviously we had the Shadowrun license and they were really positive about it but, once they saw what we did with it, it was actually Phil Spencer who is the vice president of Microsoft Studios who really wanted us to do a Battletech game. That caught Microsoft's attention back to us." "Actually it was the Shadowrun fans that sort of enabled the BattleTech fans because, with the overwhelming support that we got from Shadowrun and the fans reaction to what we did, the great reviews.
At minimum, the Mechcommander series and Mechwarrior 4 trilogy are available to Microsoft and should be made available. This was Zipper Interactives's first game and Hasbro took over the license from Activision, but unfortunately went under and Microsoft bought the license a while after.Īnyway, I think Microsoft really should put these games on GOG/Steam, and seeing how they're the most sought-after games on GOG after the Diablo series (which is already available on Bnet's digital storefront), Microsoft are just leaving money on the table. Activision have released Dark Reign and Interstate 76 on GOG, so they are willing to put out their older games. Night Dive Studios took a cursory look into it and decided they didn't want to spend resources resolving the issue. Mechwarrior 2 Trilogy (31st Century Combat, Ghost Bear's Legacy, Mercenaries)Īctivision was the developer and publisher and making two big companies like Activision and Microsoft work together seems insurmountable. However, what is much more difficult to resurrect is:ġ.
Microsoft were in charge back then and owns the rights and source code for these titles. Of course, the easiest games for Microsoft to get on GOG/Steam are Mechcommander Gold, Mechcommander 2, and the entirety of the Mechwarrior 4 releases (MW4, Black Knight, and Mercenaries). Last year, Jordan Weisman talked about getting the Mechcommander and Mechwarrior games on Steam/GOG: Consumers want easy access with a couple of clicks, along with the fact that being on GOG and Steam draws many more potential players into the universe. There's a ton of difference between having your game on GOG/Steam in terms of exposure and revenue, versus some site that people actively has to search for and go through in order to get a cumbersome installer that doesn't really work on modern systems.
It's basically money laying on the table for Microsoft and whoever wants to help putting the classics games out there. GOG and Steam are proper storefronts with lots of exposure and prominence, and they also provide revenue by selling their games to their already existing customer base. the game is just hidden away from the public and needs to be actively sought out.
I know that it is possible to download Mechcommander Gold legally and free, but this is just some obscure website that also lacks a proper installer and manual, and so forth - i.e. It would be really great if Microsoft did to the Mechwarrior and Mechcommander games what they have done with Age of Empires and Fable.