#Roller coaster tycoon 1 vs 3 license
If it is a licensing issue, it doesn't appear to involve the overall RollerCoaster Tycoon brand - Atari and series creator Chris Sawyer signed a three year license extension for that last summer. Waiting four months after the announcement of legal action before delisting doesn't quite smack of hot-blooded spite, but equally it could imply that some as-yet unannounced progress has been made in the court case. We've just seen GTA IV have to replace a huge amount of music due to expired licenses for songs on its original soundtrack, for instance. This kind of thing does happen all the time. We'll be in talks with new distribution rights holders to hopefully bring the game back as soon as possible." Over on GOG, however, the game has also disappeared, but GOG staff put their heads above the parapet to claim that "Due to expiring licensing rights, we were asked to remove the product from our catalog for the time being. RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Platinum does still have a Steam page, but the buy button has disappeared without, at the time of writing, any official explanation. In other words, there is, as yet, no definitive proof available that RT3's delisting is a direct response to the royalties dispute. However, no sources beyond the earlier TMZ piece were given, and furthermore the GI story mistakenly claims that said piece was published last week, as opposed to four months previously. TMZ's original report was big on melodrama ("You've taken us on a royalties roller coaster!!!") and low on detail or corroboration ("Frontier started to believe it was getting ripped off, claiming another website showed higher sales figures"), but Frontier later briefly confirmed to Eurogamer that they had undertaken legal action over Atari's alleged refusal to allow "our contractual right to audit."įour months later, Game Informer is alleging that the sudden removal of RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 from Steam is a direct consequence of this argy-bargy. There's been no word as yet of how that particular dust - alleged by gossip site TMZ to be worth some $2.2m - settled, but I suspect many of us would raise an eyebrow or six if someone told us that RT3's sudden removal from Steam and GOG yesterday was merely a coincidence. RCT2 felt like they really didn't know what direction they wanted to take in and it became a classic case of feature creep.Back in January, zombie publisher Atari suffered the legal ire of its past-life contractor Frontier Developments over unpaid royalties for 2004's theme park sim RollerCoaster Tycoon 3. Far better scenarios, the rides that were there were good on their own, no cheap "reskin" rides, UI wasn't a jumbled mess, it was just overall better. RCT1 had less in general, but what lacks in quantity in more than makes up in quantity. Not to mention the fact that the scenarios the game came with were pretty sub-par and weren't fun to play on. My issues with the sequel were the fact that basically everything that the sequel added was either not really necessary or far too cumbersome to use (scenario editor was a nightmare to use, stackable scenery was cumbersome and had issues with depth due to the game's 2D perspective, a huge amount of rides were just reskins to buff up the ride count, the way they rearranged the UI was terrible, etc.). I think RCT1 is one of my favorite games of all time but I can't say the same for RCT2. Khron: RTC1 is like distilled while RTC2 is somehow diluted. I think many people would struggle to even find differences For those waiting for RCT2, be aware that there may be licensing issues related to the "real" Six flags parks and branding which may make it harder to re-release.
I can now quite happily sink many hours into RCT1.
I played RCT2 a lot more originally, because I had problems with saving on my original RCT, which is fixed in GOG version. Also, I've seen some amazing fan made parks with very impressive buildings, but as mentioned above, RCT1 is more focused on the game than the creation. I seem to remember coasters crashed all the time in RCT1 (although I don't know if this was behaviour was changed in the expansion packs, because I haven't had a crash in the GOG version yet).Ģ) Stackable rides / scenery - Not such an issue unless you like making big buildings, but it did make underground/ raised rides much easier. Probably doesn't mean a lot to most people, but makes it much easier to make coasters reliable. There's only two things I find myself missing from RCT1 over RCT2:ġ) block brakes.
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