Is it true Brian Fargo owns Wasteland Rights?

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Is it true Brian Fargo owns Wasteland Rights?

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Over at NMA in an interview with Feargus Urquhart....at the end....NMA says that Fargo "Owns" Wasteland.....is that True?!?!?!?!

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Wrong Forum....

But, yes, Fargo has secured Wasteland. It's actually pretty old news.
Here's a snip from an interview with him:
GameSpy: Do you potentially have access to any other IP from Interplay's past, or be interested in working on it?

Brian Fargo: Well normally I wouldn't comment on it, but because of the public records of it ... We've also secured the Wasteland trademark. And there's no issues with that. That was actually kind of a funny story. Konami got the Wasteland mark and I went to Konami and asked what they were doing with it. They were using it as one of their umpteen-million Yu-Gi-Oh! characters, like Wasteland Rick or something crazy like that. And I said "Can I use it?" and they said "Oh no, we want to use it as one of our many characters." And finally they decided that they're really not going to exploit it anymore so they let the mark lapse and I stepped in and filed it and now it's been granted to me. So obviously that's the way I was hoping EA would behave, which may or may not be the case. I'll know in the next two or three weeks.

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OK....that last line

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Thanks.....I read that article too....it was the last line...about EA....and Waiting 2 weeks that confused me. That is an older article...however, Brian said he did have the rights to Wasteland....and that waiting business....well that was a long time ago. I just hope EA didn't step in and muck it up is all.

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He had to struck a deal with the Yo-Gi-Ho company, since they owned the wasteland name because of an expansion they once did. Sounds silly but it`s true.
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Re: OK....that last line

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Maximous wrote:Thanks.....I read that article too....it was the last line...about EA....and Waiting 2 weeks that confused me. That is an older article...however, Brian said he did have the rights to Wasteland....and that waiting business....well that was a long time ago. I just hope EA didn't step in and muck it up is all.
Honest question time: why the fuckety fuck do people write things with an excess of punctuation like this?
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Maybe he was out of breath.
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Role-Player wrote:Honest question time: why the fuckety fuck do people write things with an excess of punctuation like this?
Honest question time : Why is excess punctuation so apparently grating to you ? :drunk:
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Honest question time: Shut the fuck up?
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Now, now...let's keep it civil...

Say PLEASE next time.
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Franz_Schubert wrote:Honest question time: Shut the fuck up?
Honest question time : Do you really expect your suggestion to be acted upon, if so, do you therefore intend to conduct yourself as a twat ? :drunk:
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Blargh wrote:Honest question time : Why is excess punctuation so apparently grating to you ? :drunk:
Because it doesn't serve any purpose, and because i can't come up with a valid reason for people to go to such lenghts to post like that. It's also disruptive if used massively in a board. And excess punctuation murdered my pet canary.
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It uses bandwitdh D:
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@ Role-Player - That's fair enough I suppose, also I extend my sincere condolences for your poor canary. :drunk:
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Hey, King, when you move a topic, tell it not to leave a 'shadow topic in old forum' because that essentially defeats the purpose of moving the thread.
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LOL King got served.
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I like to let my shadow grow....
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