Those first two single-player games, one by BioWare and the other by Obsidian, were critical darlings and commercial successes. The Knights of the Old Republic fandom has grown accustomed to heartbreak. It'd be one thing if we had just started development, but if we had maybe three more months, we probably would've been able to release it.' 'That was what hurt the most, how close we were. We were actually pretty close to releasing a game,' he says.

I was playing some of the levels, the scenery, and engaging in some fights. I was going through the project on the hard drive. After that, it became clear that Poem was out of options.ДЄnd so, Ringenberg was left to pick up the pieces, and break the sad news to an eternally dedicated community that had already been beaten up hundreds of times before. The team attempted to reach out to Disney several times - hoping for something similar to the detente brokered between Blizzard and the World of Warcraft private server community - but the conglomerate never responded to their emails. вЂњItвЂ™s been our internal policy to end production in this scenario.вЂќ вЂњThe legal fight would take most likely a year and cost around $100,000,вЂќ said Trotter in ApeironвЂ™s Discord, per Kotaku. From a purely financial perspective, that was not a winnable battle. Even if Poem decided to go to court to advocate for the righteousness of an aggrieved fandom, they would still be a tiny, independent studio stacked up against Disney lawyers. While the project did use the same audio files from the first KOTOR, everything else was built from the ground up on a new engine, and within a new executable - Apeiron was a standalone game in everything but name.

The community pushed back on Disney's ruling, asserting that Apeiron could be categorized as a full-conversion mod, and therefore would be safe under fair use legislation.

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