Freeriderhd Buyout

As we all know, Kano games sucks, a lot. And they have a dying, nearly dead, game on their hands that im sure they would be able to part with for less than 100,000 USD. I'm just looking to get a feel for how much funding we could communally contribute to buy the game. all funds would be stakeholder value, and we could work out details from there. even if your not interested, please answer this poll.

 

If I had money, I would donate to support this effort.

 

brokie, also nobody would be donating, and we'd probably have to set up a middleman or someone to handle it all legally and on kanos end cuz none of us are really experienced in aquiring a game.

 

If it did come down to anyone acquiring the game, I think it should lead towards Calculus or any of the community devs.

 

yeah exactly, but we would still probably need a good bit of funding

 

reminds me of ness' rant, i'd like to have ness' opinion one day on this xd

also i found this account, very likely Char's alt. randomly logged on 4 months ago
http://frhd.co/u/Charlie

it has Eric (the one and only), Ira (free rider hd staff), Ash (forums admin), some random called FreeRider (rare username) and timteh (first non-mod to join forums)


weirdly enough, multiple accounts were purged/deleted off the database and replaced with a bunch of numbers recently (check out Charlie's friendlist)

leading me to think Kano is doing smth to free up space in their servers and they're financially struggling

most of the Charlie friend list is similar to Eric's friendlist

TL;DR: i think char is back omg :holding_back_tears:

 

interesting, it would be good to have mods back lol. although i disagree with ur financially struggling kano thing cuz storing all the data is actually a really small part of the budget for running a game. freerider its probably like less than 150 per month

 

If the game could get bought out from Kano and then hosted on a site like crazygames.com (aka the company Kano dreams they could be) that may be the best way to preserve the long-term longevity of the game. Crazygames' entire business model is to take kid's games, pump them with ads and in-app purchases, then engage in guerrilla warfare with the school district IT departments who try to IP ban them. And although FRHD isn't exactly the most monetizable game by any means, I can definitely see it having some sort of life on the site - there already is a precedent for multiplayer, build-your-own-level-and-share-it types of games on there. Bonus points for Crazygames being based in Belgium - European gaming companies are usually pretty chill - and not in North America (*cough* Canada), East Asia, or the Middle East where gaming companies are infamous for predatory monetization practices. But I'm just being dreamy here, when we haven't even solved how to extricate FRHD from Kano's taloned clutches

 

Don't think it's would want to let go due to residule money earnt but if we had a seriously achievable price I'd chip in.