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    Default Re: Magna Mundi Cancelled

    Moar drama!

    Fredrik Wester,

    I am publicly addressing you as I feel it’s my duty to the Magna Mundi fans to do the utmost to save the game and allow them to experience the work of the very special and talented team I have the pleasure to lead.
    I also feel I have the duty to the team I lead to try to save Magna Mundi. The involvement of the team on the project and how all worked together towards the single objective of delivering the game was impressive. I was still deciding things minutes before I was warned by a Spanish team member that the game had been cancelled.
    After reading that you were the one coming up with the idea of turning Magna Mundi into a commercial project, I feel we stand exactly at the same level of responsibility towards the fans: I created the brand and coordinated both the amateur and the professional projects and you decided to take advantage of it by producing a commercial game and in the process take ownership of the brand.

    In the first scenario everybody wins. This scenario demands leadership, charisma and ability to compromise. And those are exactly the qualities I am asking for you to show while trying to summon them myself. It’s a scenario where, to put it simply, a normal release date is set (I have no problem about a release in two or three months time to accommodate your release schedule), the game gets normally released and UV will continue to assume its responsibilities from then on. If for any reason you want UV to stop supporting Magna Mundi after the release thus allowing Paradox to take control of any future development within the scope of Magna Mundi, we can certainly talk about that.

    At present the situation is clear. Your decision to cancel the game will lead to a legal battle where Universo Virtual will try its best to beat Paradox, while Paradox will be doing the same to Universo Virtual. All the while I will neither give you the Magna Mundi engine nor return to you a single euro that you spent financing the development of the game.
    Courts apart, I am not one who fears the judgement of the public. I invite everyone who can come to Lisbon to check for them the game and make a judgement about it.

    In my book, cancelling a game at this stage and in these conditions while demanding back the money used for funding its development for two and a half years, demanding also the engine of the game, continuing to enjoy the ownership of the brand and retaining the possibility of releasing Magna Mundi for you, has a far uglier name than “cancellation”.
    As I'm in Lisbon itself, I'm strongly considering taking up his offer of checking the game out for a couple of hours, then writing on the Paradox forum about it.
    BLARGH!

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    Never heard another mod creator/team describe it as "creating a brand".

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    There are let's plays of it on Paradox's youtube channel, it looks awful and unfinished after two years in development. I don't need to travel to Lisbon to tell me that. Considering it was going to be released this week, it's really no shock it was canceled. It makes all the sense in the world if Paradox expected it to bomb hard to cancel it

    Never heard another mod creator/team describe it as "creating a brand".
    Special kind of crazy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Monk View Post
    There are let's plays of it on Paradox's youtube channel, it looks awful and unfinished after two years in development. I don't need to travel to Lisbon to tell me that. Considering it was going to be released this week, it's really no shock it was canceled. It makes all the sense in the world if Paradox expected it to bomb hard to cancel it



    Special kind of crazy.
    Pass me the coke please.

    http://forum.universo-virtual.com/vi...php?f=8&t=4326

    Hi Ubik and team, just came to say that I have been following the game for quite a while. The current leak beta version is simply amazing if not a bit dated. I would just like to give you some encouragement to leak the clausewitz engine and the full game if possible. We the fans will take over from there and fix all of the bugs and features and would truly appreciate such an action. We do not care about drama, lawsuits or anything. We just want a moddable game, and to be able to have access to the actual engine that creates these wonderful strategy games would simply be amazing. Please consider leaking, whether now or after the situation plays out. There are people out there who can help make sure the leak is not connected to you in any way. You can delete this message once you have finished reading it, as it has served its purpose. Cheers!
    Apparently every post in the Universo Virtual forum has to be approved by ubik before it goes public (Not sure if it is also that way towards new threads).

    Meaning we would now have ubik consenting on posts openly asking the developers to leak everything.

    Poor Paradox, they never imagined what a train wreck this was going to be when they approached ubik for the first time. xD
    BLARGH!

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    Default Re: Magna Mundi Cancelled

    It's times like this when I wish I was counsel for Paradox. The sheer legal glee of these kinds of comments is like sugar coated diamonds sprinkled on top of a gilded peanut butter cup.


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