TFHM is still going on. It was limited to only 4 people at first.
One was VV and with her mother dying and being on the hook for a new book to write - she has obviously had a full plate.
Rae is still working on some efforts. I know I put forward a possible buyer and she is working on it. I am sorry that businesses don't operate in the full public and rarely do they want anyone to know what they are doing.
I know it all seems a bit cloak and dagger, sometimes it HAS to be.
You have 3 projects in the light of day, H&V, Phoenix and Valience.
You have at least 2 reverse engineering projects going.
You have at least 2 suggestions out with Disney and Google and there is a 3rd.
There is cause for hope. None of these is a certainty, I am sorry there isn't more to share but you have either possible legal entanglements or they quiet method businesses use to move on a property. I really wish it was more open but let me place you in the drivers seat.
If you had $10-15 million to spend and were trying to buy a game to restore it would you openly show your hand to have maybe it all to go south and raise the ire of people without need?
But if that the case, in hindsight, I wonder if it was worth announcing anything at all until something more solid that could be shared happened? Like instead of "hey we are contacting this guy that knows a guy" then silence. Maybe it would have been better to wait until, "hey, they got NCSOFT to the negotiating table."
Like right now, have there been a single blip of indication that either side is actually moving or NCSOFT is even interested in selling?
If I had 10-15 million. I don't think I would have spoke about it at all until things are certain. And if I do speak as has happened here, after a while, especially if there is audience, I would have the common courtesy to keep them updated. Even with generic information of the deals are going forward, they are still looking it over, they are not looking it over, they shredded it, they laughed at it, they loved it, etc. For people with inside information they sure don't know much. There are many ways to communicate without spilling the entire can of beans.
Believe it or not, assuming they actually do have inside information, they are not the only one, the first nor last that been in position of inside information and giving updates while maintaining information control. Remember I work for the gov. It's bread and butter especially when dealing with private contracts of new establishments and people outside asking and wondering what's going on. So I have a pretty good idea how these things work and the way it looks like either they over estimated their insider depth or they been blowing smoke. I don't think they been blowing total smoke.
Quite frankly anyone can claim to know someone that know someone on the internet.. While we at it, I know a guy that knows a guy that knows a guy that met this guy at Walmart that got an email from the secretary of this guy that knows the dog walker of this guy that live two cities over from this guy that knows a founder of Yahoo. Guess this means I have inside information to the Yahoo CEO.