Roathe says this is damaging his brand name and company reputation, adding: "Even if I wanted to support version I couldn't.
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Although the company is not mentioned anywhere in the game's manual or packaging, consumers come across IFD when they do a Google search for help. To make matters worse, the developer continues, the game is full of bugs, and customers who buy the Global Star version are contacting IFD for technical support. Roathe estimates that Take Two has shifted a minimum of 70,000 copies of Bugdom. "I'm not getting paid for those titles and they are preventing me from getting my legal copy in to retail."
"They basically have just kept putting me off," Roathe told Game Daily. However, he says, no steps have been taken to resolve the issue - and IFD is losing money as a result.
Roathe claims he has discussed the matter with Take Two, and that the publisher has acknowledged it has no legal ownership of Bugdom. However, he says, Take Two continued to publish the game regardless. Lane Roathe, who co-founded IFD with John Romero of id Software fame and is president of the company, purchased the Bugdom licence in January 2002. IFD alleges that Gathering failed to make payments on the Bugdom licence, and as a result ceased to own the publishing rights. It was originally published by Gathering of Developers in 2000, shortly before Take Two aquired the company.
US publisher Ideas From the Deep (IFD) has contacted the FBI with allegations that Take Two Interactive is selling illegal copies of Bugdom, a PC game for which IFD claims to own the license.Īccording to a report on US site Game Daily, the firm claims that Take Two has published the title under the Global Star label for the past three years.
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