LOTD copyright owner?

[Dome19]

Hello dear group members. Does anyone know who currently owns the copyright to LOTD? I would like to do it in VR and would like to contact the current owner company if that is possible.

[Dragosvr92]

Thats a good question that i've been wondering myself. To be honest, i have no idea.... Maybe Universal Studios. Brainbox games or/and Groove Games were bought by some Canadian company that i really cant remember the name of. Generally, the games copyright isnt claimed.... yet... By its holder. I know its been posted on archive.org as abandoned. You would have to do more research.

Also, i sent you a reply regarding your credentials for your old account from 2012. But there seem to be two Dome accounts.

[Dome19]

Thanks for your reply Dragosvr92! Yes, I requested a password change, but unfortunately I did not receive your reply, so I registered again. This website is very good, never take it down!!! <3

[Dragosvr92]

Thanks for your reply Dragosvr92! Yes, I requested a password change, but unfortunately I did not receive your reply, so I registered again. This website is very good, never take it down!!! <3

I've done some research and it looks like Funbox Media Ltd now owns Brainbox Games. On Steam, if you click the Developer (Brainbox), it links to them. Its also FunBox who added Desert Thunder 2003 to Steam, in what appears to be 2014.

Link Trail:
https://www.mobygames.com/company/6425/brainbox-games/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2833 ... t_Thunder/

[destroyerlotd]

ok..Im still alive & kickin sorta. have had a crash in my eyesfir quite a while and cannot see very well. workinig on that for quite a while. dam i do miss everyone so bad. ive been to ask Bkade if he owns any partr of LOTD or just the master listing rights which im sure he pays very little or nothing to use it but not resale it.he told me a long time ago it would stay alive as long as ANY server or servers are alive.guess Drafos and myself are the old neb here with me turning 71 thhis year on Halloween. nut i know as long as im breathing i will keep my old dusty server workiing.again...dam i miss so many wonderful people i made friends wioth here.LOTD lives for a reason im guessing.Miss you all..but I AINIT QUITTING...PERIOD..cause DESTROYER said so.Peace all

[Dragosvr92]

Hi @destroyerlotd !
I am sorry to hear that dest but i am glad you come to tell us. I wish you a speedy recovery !

Blade only owns the domain name that is used for the master server, and he has the master server software. With the software anyone can run it if they change the MS address in the LOTD.ini file. He pays the yearly fee for the domain name which can range between $10-20/year, and the hosting fees as i think he doesnt host it on his own computer for many years now....

I dont know if you remember Dennis, but he wrote his own MS software after it shut down (i think in about 2010), but he got upset for nothing and left. Thank you for the nice words and for remaining with the LOTD community. I wish you good health !

[worldwiser]

Is it possible to transfer the ownership of the domain to me? If Destroyer is too ill to maintain the server, I can pay the annual $10-20 fee to keep LOTD running. I’m still young, I have a job, and I can’t let LOTD go. I’m one of the Korean members who has played with Destroyer for the past few years. I don’t have any knowledge about domain software, but if you explain it to me, I would like to take over and continue managing it.

Btw, I really hope Destroyer is okay. I still want to play LOTD with you as much as we can..

[Dragosvr92]

That is for @destroyerlotd to answer you. But nothing is stopping you to order your own server. I set the basis for hosting a server with that company, as they didnt support LOTD. You are free to order your server from this url: https://www.elitegameservers.net/game-s ... er-hosting. The server, mostly maintains itself, if its well configured with the maps.

[eblade]

heya. Yeah, I've got the domain name, and it's been renewed i think for as many years as they would let me (get the discount while the money isn't tight ). I'll make sure someone has the master server if I ever am in a position I can't run it, or will it to someone It's my understanding that Groove st

Yeah I've been self hosting it for most of the time that I've had it, but I'm considering bundling it in with my Amazon hosting bill. I haven't done that because having a game server on the same machine as the master server .... results in the server using it's internal ip address.... and... i think i just rememberd that there's a way to actually bypass that, Unreal 2 I think has a "bind" command line parameter that will tell it which IP address to use... jesus christ, wish I would've remembered that a decade ago lol

Going to see if that works soon, and if it does, then I'll move it. I already pay $35-45 a month for hosting stuff on Amazon, I didn't want to make it $50 or $60 ... so i want to be able to run it on the same machine that does the game server. ALTHOUGH I need to find out if the game server can run on something newer than Windows Server 2008, which would also make my hosting bill a bit cheaper, and prevent the machine from getting crashed out every few weeks. Anyway, trying to reduce costs, I want to put the master server on my hosting which if I can do it on the same machine, will only cost me a few cents a month, and then I can let the machine that runs it now sleep when it's not in use for other things, and reduce my power costs at home.

As cheap as computers and decent home networks are these days, I'd encourage anyone who likes the game and has any extra computer cycles to run a server. Even in the era this thing came out, it was very low on CPU hit, I don't think the server I've got at Amazon, which is the second smallest one they offer (only because i needed *some* disk space) has ever gone over 25% CPU utilization, with two servers running and players on them.

OTOH, if my ideas on getting the master and games on the same hardware running together actually works, then I could cut my hosting bill in by 66% or so and run them all on the one PC that will remain always on here... hmm. BUT, then I have a problem with my internal network... so... that might have to wait until I change internet providers in the fall. Getting a fiber link!!!! yaaaaaaay

[eblade]

oh, as to who owns the copyright... Universal has the copyright to LOTD. Might go barking up the tree in the thread above to find who has Groove Games and ask them about their other game "Day of the Zombie", which basically has all the same art assets and almost all the same code, but they actually own that one. They offered it to me years ago for a substantial sum of money, that made me laugh really hard. But that was not the current company that apparently owns it.