All Infocom Games Availability

[Wolf]

Hello, will all the Infocom titles be available for purchase in the future?

[neozeed]

unlikely it seems. From what I gather Bobby Kotick is not a fan, although the 'Lost Treasures of Infocom' basically saved Activision back in 1991. Even back with Return to zork and the whole 'a brick with zork written on it will ship 100,000 units' the thing is that they ship way more new stuff now that doing zork would be an unprofitable distraction. Look no further than the IOS collection of Infocom games, they farmed it out to a 3rd party as they couldn't be bothered to do it themselves (fair enough), but they won't renew the license to the devs to update it for a 64bit build, and now it's removed from the store.

TL;DR, zork is less than a rounding error in modern times. Clearly nobody told him that Invisiclues could be sold as microtransactions....

[Aiyoki]

Sorry for the necro, but the IOS collection wasn't even complete. I don't think there ever was a complete collection, there was always a few games missing sadly. Ages ago I got the Lost Treasures and Lost Treasures II when they first came out, and even both combined was missing some titles.

IF they ever do decide to finally release an actual complete collection that works on the PC, I'll be first in line to buy it (and a couple extra copies to boot).

[neozeed]

You'll be waiting a long time, as those 'missing' titles were 3rd party which the rights reverted back to the original parities.