On 01/07/15, Todd Yatzook said the following...   
       
    TY>  NB> Okay. Their website has said that for years, and will probably contin   
    TY>  NB> to do so. I've heard quite a few bad dealings with them over the past   
    TY>  NB> couple years, though.   
    TY>    
    TY> I believe I told you about that about a month ago or so as well. I   
    TY> actually got direct confirmation from the lady that owns Metropolis and   
    TY> Gameport that the guy that handles the door game registrations is hella   
    TY> lax about it because "they don't pull in much money".   
    TY>    
    TY>  NB> I also believe that Michael Preslar isn't developing LORD anymore, an   
    TY>  NB> hasn't since 4.08 was released. I remember hearing something in the   
    TY>  NB> lines that Gameport screwed him over 1) in his cut for continuing   
    TY>  NB> development, and 2) wanted to charge him an outrageous price to buy o   
    TY>  NB> the source completely.   
    TY>    
    TY> I think I told you about this as well  =) Talked to Mike directly, he   
    TY> hasn't touched LORD in a long time partly because, yeah, they haven't   
    TY> paid him a royalty check in years now.   
    TY>    
    TY> Also, it was Jay Hodges, Seth Able Robinson and a couple others that   
    TY> expressed an interest in buying it back but they couldn't ever find who   
    TY> to contact. Phone calls lead nowhere, emails never got answered. I   
    TY> actually found her on my very first try, talked to her for about 10   
    TY> minutes about all of it  =) When I mentioned they were possibly offering   
    TY> around $3,000 or so, she said "Oh, that seems really low". Rumor has it   
    TY> they paid Seth Able about $10,000 for his games, so I can see her   
    TY> reluctance. But still, $3,000 for something she'll never get close to   
    TY> over the life of her ownership? Pfft.   
      
   Sounds like if somebody wanted to reverse engineer the program, and   
   reintroduce it under the same name, then there would be nobody there to stop   
   them from doing that.   
      
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