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In something that is so common and that has apparently become a standard within the video game industry, a studio created a collection of “playable” NFTs based on retro titles, which they called the Retro Arcade Collection and that they had to eliminate now they (surprise) didn’t have the rights.
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According to the Waypoint site, MetaGravity Studio never obtained permission from companies such as Blizzard and Remedy, so that their Blackthorne or Death Rally games could be NFTed, let alone auctioned, so they had to eliminate them.
According to Rashin Mansoor, who is the CEO of MetaGravity and who sent a statement to Waypoint, the games the team chose for their collection were “mostly free software and in some cases game demos”, assuring that their noble intention it was “preserving abandonware” in the way “a lot of abandonware sites are doing.”
An intention that clearly distorts the term abandonware for its convenience, thinking that it is something abandoned that anyone can pick up and sell, which is not necessarily the case since, despite the fact that a company is not financially interested in the software, it still has those rights. about them and permission must be sought from them in order to be able to market them.
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