{"id":697,"date":"2007-07-03T13:17:35","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T17:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/03\/shall-we-go-again-your-majesty\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T03:12:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T07:12:26","slug":"shall-we-go-again-your-majesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/03\/shall-we-go-again-your-majesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Shall we go again, your Majesty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got an email from Paradox PR stating that they have acquired the IP rights to <em>Majesty<\/em>, the creative but underperforming 1998 RTS from Cyberlore. In <em>Majesty<\/em>, you controlled your kingdom indirectly, giving incentives for many units to take actions but not necessarily giving orders.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Paradox has an interest in reviving this franchise, or at least that&#8217;s what a Cyberloe exec thinks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We strongly feel that <em>Majesty<\/em> deserves to be revitalized and there are few gaming companies out there capable of taking this franchise to the next level&#8221;, said Lester Humphreys, Founder of Cyberlore Studios. &#8220;There is no question in our minds that Paradox Interactive is the right company to do just that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, I ask this as an admirer of <em>Majesty<\/em>. For the love of God, why?<\/p>\n<p><em>Majesty<\/em> is one of those games that has earned more retrospective respect than actual love. It is not a success story. It is not a recognizable name to masses of gamers. It is not a license to print money.<\/p>\n<p>So why acquire a name that you can&#8217;t do a lot with anyway? I guess you could call <em>Majesty<\/em> a cult hit, but this isn&#8217;t <em>Fallout<\/em> we&#8217;re talking about. This isn&#8217;t even <em>Sacrifice<\/em>. And nothing could keep Paradox from developing a game similar to <em>Majesty<\/em> without owning the title; this is an industry full of clones, derivatives and &#8220;spiritual successors&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It could be that Paradox wants to do more than make historical simulations, though that&#8217;s where there audience is. Their adaptation of the boardgame <em>Diplomacy<\/em> was a train wreck. So, for design credibility, they need a credible name. I&#8217;m sure <em>Majesty<\/em> wasn&#8217;t expensive and it has that geeky insider thing going for it. You know what I mean. The whole &#8220;You can&#8217;t call yourself a gamer until&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch this space for more news as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got an email from Paradox PR stating that they have acquired the IP rights to Majesty, the creative but underperforming 1998 RTS from Cyberlore. In Majesty, you controlled your kingdom indirectly, giving incentives for many units to take actions but not necessarily giving orders. Apparently, Paradox has an interest in reviving this franchise, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[27,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-bf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}