: Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:25 pm  

The site is now back up but it appears to have been taken over/bought which means they can't use club badges/names/(players?) due to it not being freeware?
If this is the case i believe they have killed the game off totally now

: Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:41 pm  

Not many people are going to pay for a game like that imo there were a lot of problems with it : Not being updated to 2009 made it frustrating for some reason. For me the match view was too far away and you could hardly see what the players were doing. Only 7 seasons is poor, when you play games like FM/CM you expect to be able to go through as many seasons as you want, not to be cut off when you finally start to get going. Korkidas getting a silver star !? Come on now... Had a quick search in google, http://www.blackdragongames.co.uk It looks like the game will still be freeware, so why are the badges like that :S

Not many people are going to pay for a game like that imo there were a lot of problems with it : Not being updated to 2009 made it frustrating for some reason. For me the match view was too far away and you could hardly see what the players were doing. Only 7 seasons is poor, when you play games like FM/CM you expect to be able to go through as many seasons as you want, not to be cut off when you finally start to get going. Korkidas getting a silver star !? Come on now... Had a quick search in google, http://www.blackdragongames.co.uk It looks like the game will still be freeware, so why are the badges like that :S

: Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:59 pm  

can't use the logos etc. apparently, freeware or not so having to change it.

BDG specialise in promoting small project games so have teamed up with them.

still freeware.

: Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:32 pm  

RLFans2 wrote:

can't use the logos etc. apparently, freeware or not so having to change it.



still freeware.

have you been approached by them? because I know that some other freeware games (about different subjects not just sport such as the hundreds of fan Super Mario games or Star Trek games) use trademarked or copyrighted images and the big companies behind them don't mind as long as they don't make a profit.

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:18 am  

no.

what happened was the company which owns the SL rights approached me to discuss the possibility of a retail release of this game.

they offered a very fair developer/publisher agreement but i decided not to go ahead with it.

so i'm removing all the logos and names which are within the copyrights and offering the generic game as freeware once again.

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:08 pm  

RLFans2 wrote:

no.

what happened was the company which owns the SL rights approached me to discuss the possibility of a retail release of this game.

they offered a very fair developer/publisher agreement but i decided not to go ahead with it.

so i'm removing all the logos and names which are within the copyrights and offering the generic game as freeware once again.

So you're not using the proper logos or names?

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:46 pm  

no i'm not.

but the game will still be rugby league.

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:52 pm  

i don't have the resources to enter into big business deals.

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 3:38 pm  

RLFans2 wrote:

i don't have the resources to enter into big business deals.

what do u mean by that

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 3:42 pm  

i'm a one man band