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[-SilverBane-]

Hey guys

I would like to inform you that there is a petition to WB to make bfme3, we need 1000 signs, 870 alrdy signed.

I am not sure if this petition will do something but hey, its free and if its there any chance to make bfme3, why to miss it.

Here is the link: https://www.change.o...f-the-rings-rts

 

Lets hope we will be lucky enough and get a new bfme

 

PS: im not sure if this is the right section to post this, if not pls move it to the proper place

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Mmm... this won't happen... ever. EA sold the license back to MEE, and we won't see any new Tolkien games from EA, period. Much less BFME3, which has been petitioned numerous times without success. Not only that, I'm pretty sure a petition whose sole message is "please make a Battle for Middle Earth 3 or a new Lord of the Rings RTS" won't be taken seriously.

[Bashkuga]

It doesn't have to be exactly called BFME, just a RTS with the same style as BFME. Although I agree that it probably won't be taken seriously, but I signed .

Edited by Bashkuga, 09 February 2015 - 05:55 PM.

[Mathijs]

This will never happen (for a variety of very good reasons that I don't feel like going into now), and I strongly suggest you give up hope.

[Plokite_Wolf]

1) Petitions are just shrines of the uninformed part of gaming communities. They suck by definition and almost never work, as they're run by idiots/whiners most of the time.

2) EA lost the LotR license.

3) If/when they get it back, their next LotR game won't be an RTS, especially not one that belongs to an underperforming series.

Edited by Plokite_Wolf, 09 February 2015 - 07:14 PM.

[Mathijs]

Shrines of the uninformed... you really have a way with words sometimes, Plokite. 

[Unknown]

99% of games are all about the amazing current gen capacity which is best done in third or first person...

Nd I personally, I think the mods created for the BfME franchise are a hundred times better than whatever else EA would crap out next (but that's my opinion)!

[Pasidon]

It's a good opinion, because even if this petition thing went through, it wouldn't be a good thing necessarily.  WB has been making great games recently, but wanting them to make an RTS game isn't something we trust them to do... could be a disaster for the modding community, even.  

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

After seeing Warner's take on MERP for Skyrim, I personally don't have any problems with them taking no interest in RTS, lest they try to C&D Revora.

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

We're protected in our obscurity.

Here's an interesting thought, what would happen if EA decided to sell the BFME games on origin?
Could WB actually sue them, EA do have copyright on their parts of Bfme even without the licence.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

I don't think, what with BFME still retaining parts owned by MEE, they can resell it without a licence. 

WB suing wouldn't be as much a problem as MEE's reaction.

[Ridder Geel]

I like how in the petition it says expantion instead of expansion... ._.

And I don't think ea is even going to bother reselling the BFME games on origin

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

If EA were to do it would there even be an issue, presumably MEE would have already gotten their money WB has no direct competition and increased exposure of a brand can only be a good thing.
If EA wanted to they probably could make BFME 3 through some arrangement, but clearly they lost interest in the property otherwise they would have renewed the licence ir negotiated something new.
So it really comes down to EA dropping yet another good thing like CnC, Pandemic and so on...how are they still in business again?

Edited by Radspakr Wolfbane, 25 February 2015 - 01:50 PM.

[Ridder Geel]

Selling crappy/buggy games?

And then disbanding them if they don't live up to the profits EA desires?

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

If EA were to do it would there even be an issue, presumably MEE would have already gotten their money WB has no direct competition and increased exposure of a brand can only be a good thing.
If EA wanted to they probably could make BFME 3 through some arrangement, but clearly they lost interest in the property otherwise they would have renewed the licence ir negotiated something new.

 

 

No, really, there would be a significant issue. MEE have retracted the license, EA can legally not gain any further profit from any Tolkien-related content without infringing copyright law. Thus, online retailing or a BFME3 would be pretty much like EA shitting all over MEE, then MEE dragging the entirety of EA down with legal action.

[Lauri]

EA's got exclusive rights to Star Wars games now, I'm sure the hype is larger than the LotR\Hobbit hype.

[Kwen]

We're protected in our obscurity.

Here's an interesting thought, what would happen if EA decided to sell the BFME games on origin?
Could WB actually sue them, EA do have copyright on their parts of Bfme even without the licence.

I actually own a copy of RotWK on Origin, so at one point EA did have BFME titles for sale on Origin.