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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wilbers" data-source="post: 285069" data-attributes="member: 7432">Don't think that analogy quite works.  When a physical table is sold the purchaser is (generally) free to do with it what they want.  With Farsight they still own the files that make up all the tables, and presumably the secondary (non-WMS) licenses are all still valid but without the Williams license they can't sell any more of those tables as the Zen license is an exclusive license.  The only ones that can be resold are those on a physical disk, which is only the first 2 seasons on PS3, but again they can't make any more discs without the license.  You can argue that Farsight should have better lawyers/negotiators so they would have had at least 6 months notice that the license wasn't going to be renewed and that they had full control over the pricing (could have had a 50% off everything sale at the end then, except were prohibited from doing so), but they didn't.If it got to say 4 years hence and Williams decided to grant non-exclusive licenses to both Zen & Farsight (which doesn't seem that likely) they could then start selling them again - if anyone would pick their tables over those in FX3 if both versions were available that is another matter entirely as they are getting trounced on quality.</blockquote>

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