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Hello everyone!
Recently, I became interested in the topic of why Heroes of Might and Magic III is not available on any gaming platform (Steam, Origin, etc.). I understand that I am not the first and not the last to ask this question, and such topics and discussions have already taken place. But nevertheless...
From what I found... The rights to the franchise belong to Ubisoft. There is also a corresponding topic on the Ubisoft forum: this one.
Ubisoft, judging by the topic, tactfully brushed it off, saying that they "don't plan to."
I've already heard about Modding, and I also saw a topic about some volunteer developers creating Heroes from scratch. It seems that they have even achieved some success. But that's not quite the same.
But what I couldn't find... Who actually has the original source code for Heroes? Do Ubisoft even have it? Or do they only own the "discs" for sale and the brand? Surely there haven't been any detectives who looked into this yet?
The game is already 15 years old. Many games have already become open source. And now there is a trend of "relaunching" games, like Age of Empires HD, etc.
I understand that on this forum we can only sigh sadly, etc., but surely among millions of fans, there are still some proactive people (including in France) who have tried to seriously raise this issue? Maybe someone knows how these stories ended? And what is Ubisoft's real position and arguments on this issue? The company seems to be large. If they wanted to, they could easily revive it and even make some money. I am somehow sure that a reworked Heroes 3 would be in good demand on Steam, and if they also put some advertising, then even more old-school fans would rush to buy it.
And if Ubisoft doesn't want to invest money in another group of programmers, I think there would be many volunteers who would rework the source code for Steam, improve the graphics/animation, fix bugs, and so on. And Ubisoft would only have to launch it on Steam and make extra money easily.
Shed some light on this dark story
