It appears to me no one was really "Shut Down". It seems they volunteered
to shut down under threat. Maybe they just got too big. Maybe its better to have the whole mess decentralized if that would even be possible. That way if one person decides to shut down then things keep going as normal..If the BigWigs have to start 100 lawsuits just to even make a dent then it probably wont be worth it to them..The only thing that worries me personally is that at this point I have no ability to make my own tools or a login server program to set something up if everything finally goes awash..I could care less about lawsuits.
This is sorta like the History of TombRaider. People wanted to make thier own levels so they started making programs to do so. Eidos got mad and started sending threatening letters to everyone. But it just made people mad and the people worked harder to teach Eidos a lesson. Now you can find 100s if not many 100s of tools to create your own levels. Eidos even gave in and released thier own level editor..Wich is to put it mildly, junk!
I dare say Eidos is making more money now that poeple are buying the old games to extract the models/objects/music from them to use in homemade levels. I even buy the old games just to give them away to promote TR.
If there were no custom levels out there I would never buy those games again.
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