Reply To: FFG pulls the plug on Android: Netrunner

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it’s possible … although again, it may be a lot more difficult to enforce than we realise, if you go down the IP rabbit hole it gets complicated … conspiracy hat time 😛 …

the original Netrunner card game was based off the Cyberpunk 2020 pen and paper RPG from 1988, which was also licensed and based of William Gibsons stories and also the Mirrorshades short story book, which comprises a dozen other authors works, the legal rights to Gibsons stories are very complicated, and almost nobody has public knowledge of who exactly owns the rights, but we do know Hasbro owns Cyberpunk 2020, and has the rights to make games based in that universe and Gibsons stories … and they don’t have to pay for that license for some reason … Hasbro also of course owns WOTC, and WOTC licensed the rights to the Netrunner mechanics and various terms to FFG to make Android: Netrunner, but they did not give FFG the license to use the Cyberpunk 2020 franchise IP,  fast forward a bit, Lukas then joins WOTC 8 months ago to work on a secret card game… at the same time Hasbro signs a first look deal for their film division Allspark Entertainment with Paramount to make movies based off their IP portfolio, one of the first deals they shop around is the Cluedo movie, Paramount passes, and it quickly arrives at 20th Century Fox, produced by Ryan Reynolds, about 2 weeks after Fox signed a deal to make a Neuromancer trilogy directed by Deadpool director Tim Miller … did I mention Fox also owns the rights to make Magic The Gathering movies ?? 😛 … P.S. now Fox and their entire movie rights portfolio is currently being brought by Disney 😛 … long story short WOTC possibly pulled the rights from FFG because they are about to launch a Neuromancer / Cyberpunk 2020 card game backed by the full might of the Disney corporation 😛