Al Lowe Cannot Sell The Leisure Suit Larry Source Codes After All!

General news News 12/15/2018

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The poor man cannot find his break…

The last time we talked about Al Lowe, it was when he was planning to sell the source code of Leisure Suit Larry (and a few other things) on eBay to get some money. However, he wasn’t allowed to get through. Who blocked his way?

Britton Mathews wrote in the Sierra Games Facebook group that it was Activision who pulled out the usual cease & desist card – unless Lowe wanted to be taken to court, he had to take off the eBay auctions. Here’s the twist, though: the publisher admitted that they don’t own the Leisure Suit Larry IP, but they claim there might be „shared code” between LSL and King’s Quest and Space Quest – the last two IPs are in Activision Blizzard‘s possession. Lowe confirmed Mathews’s comment.

We need to explain the situation. How is Activision Blizzard related to Sierra On-Line’s games? It’s simple: Sierra’s IPs were mostly under Vivendi Games (who also owned Blizzard before the 2007/2008 merger), but when Activision merged with Vivendi Games to create Activision Blizzard, they got a hold of Sierra, too. (In 2013 or so, Vivendi backed out of the giant company, which they repeated with Ubisoft earlier this year.)

It’s hard to comment on the situation.

Source: PCGamer

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