Hey, sorry for a few potential errors here on my part. First, I did search for existing topics about this... Topic... But couldn't find any. I am sure someone has asked this before, but I didn't see it. Second, sorry if this doesn't belong in the 'General Discussion' forum, but I thought it'd be strange to put it in a specific game's forum when the question is about the entire TellTale catalog.

Alright, with that out of the way: Are all Telltale games going to be removed soon?

The company shut down from what I understand, and that always means that their catalog might get lost. Specifically, I am interested in the Sam and Max games and have been waiting on a sale for them. Should I be worried? I remember that GOG warn players about stuff like this in the past, but thought I should ask just in case.

Thanks in advance! :)

Highly doubt it, if I remember they have like a few people still working doing things behind the scenes. and they got another company to finish the episode for walking dead. if they really did want to close doors and remove everything then it would have happened a month or so ago.

Don't worry about it but if you really feel not to sure about the whole thing then go buy the stuff you want from them encase worst case scenario happens.


Another thing, For something like that studio shutting down, I am sure GOG will make a sale or farewell on front the store for those games. those games had a fairly big impact on story telling to a degree so yeah.

Do they? Is this after the latest round of layoffs? If I remember correctly, after the initial round, they kept a skeleton crew of 25 people, and they made several announcements, including that they might finish Walking dead. And I think a week ago, they fired the remaining people.

Telltale Games has not shut down. Yes, the shutdown process has been initiated but it has not been completed yet, and nobody knows when it will or what it will mean for the company's catalog in the various digital stores. Since the news of the impending closure has been plastered across a variety of websites and became a hot topic for a while, I suggest you keep an eye on GOG for any future announcement regarding the games. Officially, Telltale has not announced anything regarding the skeleton crew's fate. This all came from a former staff member's twitter account.

As for the Walking Dead series, they are now in the hands of Skybound Games, helmed by the creator of the Walking Dead comic himself, Robert Kirkman. They have expressed their desire to complete the Final Season with the help of former Telltale developers (and Kirkman has even publicly mentioned he'd be disappointed if the third episode wasn't complete by the end of this year).

That's not GOG's decision.
If Telltale (or someone handling Telltale's remaining assets) tells them to pull all the games from sale, GOG is not going to to have any sale. Those games will just disappear one day.
Of course it's not in anyone's interests to shut down the remaining sources of income for the company, but can still happen in some legal circumstances. It's believed that a bunch of people who were fired will be rehired by the new company that will finish the remaining work. So somebody is working behind the scenes, the question is, which company name stands on the paycheck. It's all speculation at this point, as there's so little confirmed information.

According to rockpapershotgun, the staff member that made the announcement on Twitter, was part of the skeleton crew. So, while there hasn't been an official announcement from Telltale, it definitively true. Missed that one, it does indeed appear that the creator of Walking Dead is interested in completing the series. So that's good news for the fans.

There may not be a legal entity with the authority to declare them for removal if things keep exploding.

Depends on if the owners of TellTale Games has to sell their assets to someone else, and if they do have to sell it to someone else, then it will be upto who ever bought those assets. If the owners do not have to sell their assets and keep the ownership of the games, then I see no reason why they would take the games off from GoG or anywhere else, cause it can still bring them in what ever money everytime it sales.

Just saying, to me it's already suspect that the Walking Dead games are currently not on the Halloween sale.

Telltale HAS NO IPs. Not even ONE. All games are third party licences, Warner/DC, Disney/Marvel, Microsoft, Warner/HBO or Gearbox.

If Telltale goes under, all licence agreements end and the games cannot be sold anymore, without renewing the licence. And since all games did not sell so well... do the math.

Get those games as soon as possible, as they can be pulled quite fast and I am afraid that they will not come back.

Telltale Texas Hold'em ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telltale_Texas_Hold%27em

Puzzle Agent 1+2 and Hector: Badge of Carnage aren't licensed games.

I agree although they still have kind of their own IP, that is their work based on others work. It's dependent on others IP but still constitutes their very own IP. On the other hand I agree, this adds additional complexity and risk. Renewing the licenses seems not impossible but may pose additional problems.

It's actually more common than you would think.
No One Lives Forever is one of the best examples of that. In that case all the companies who have something to do with it are big companies, and there is even another company willing to invest money on re-releasing them - still they can't work it out.

In cases where there's bankruptcies, third party IPs, licensed content, or whatever, it's much more difficult.

I guess a big percentage of the 8-bit computer games would fall into this category.