Re: Dark City Games etc

Yeah, that's exactly why I think he does it that way. It's not like he's made any money off of it in the last 30 years, so the only reason to play it that way is to bury it as a way of "getting back" at Steve. Or at least that's the way it seems to me. Petty and childish, if true, but then he was showing those characteristics after the "break-up" anyway...

And that helps explain SJ's several public comments that he's "moved on" and "wouldn't be interested anymore anyway." It seems the best way to honk off HT is to simply ignore him.

Of course, that means us fans of TFT are the big losers, but I guess there aren't that many of us left anymore anyway...

From: Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com>
To: tft@brainiac.com
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: Dark City Games etc

I guess that's sort of the same thing, the terms were he could buy it, but
couldn't afford it :)

HT still seemed to think it was going to score him big some day, as potential
purchasers had one shot to make an offer with no set asking price, and he'd
give a yes or no. I've wondered if that was done to keep people from buying
it and giving it to SJ.

On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 16:17:06 +0000 (UTC)
Jeffrey Vandine <jlv61560@yahoo.com> wrote:

> No, according to an editorial written by Steve Jackson in the second or third issue that he produced of the Space Gamer, he tried to buy TFT back from HT, but HT was talking 6 figures for the rights and Steve told him no way. He had already paid for Ogre by then -- at least according to the comments SJ made at the time. Given that HT was expecting to cash in big-time on TFT (remember, it was early days still), I am completely sure he wouldn't have offered such a deal -- anything Steve wanted, he was going to have to pay cash on the barrelhead for.
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> From: Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com>
> To: tft@brainiac.com
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 5:05 AM
> Subject: Re: Dark City Games etc
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> On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 00:02:18 -0400
> "David O. Miller" <davidomiller@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > As for OGRE I know what SJ did with it. That was definitely a vanity project. And I'm pretty sure he lost money on it.
>
> As I recall (and I'm too undercaffeinated to hunt in the archives), when
> SJ separated from Metagaming, the terms allowed him to take either TFT or
> Ogre/GEV.
>
> I'm not so sure that he lost money on Ogre; the kickstarter was wildly popular
> and got them almost a million dollars. They kept adding content because
> they kept getting the backing.
>
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