Even if worse case for them and they go into bankruptcy and COX IP is sold it doesnt mean it will be revived.
Ubisoft (one of my most loathed companies ever) bought the Might and Magic IP soley to sell Heroes games. Five was okay (better than 4, not as good as 3, whatever, nothing is!
) and 6 is an insult in every way.
So the main RPG line is dead in the water. While 9 may have been an unfinished pile of bugs (as I hear it you cant beat the game, I never owned it as a kid and while I own it on GoG now I'm nervous to try if I can get hours in and not win :/) I loved 6, 7, and 8. There aren't really games like those anymore. There probably never will be, since 6 was barely even a heroes game.
So this is a very real problem with game IP. To me, it seems dumb to hold onto something people want to buy, and not use it, but this is a very common practice.
Ugh. Reality is nothing like my super hero videogame.
That reality took away. Grr. :/