PA, I totally agree with the sentiment, and if there's no way to lease out the world without compromising its integrity (which does seem, at the least, difficult) then I don't want it done. But Lorne did start the games as a way to earn capital for movies. In interviews he has repeatedly stated the desire for licensable goods. Is this just for the movies and related merchandising? It could be simply to hold onto the intellectual rights as long as possible.
On another note, is anyone able to reconcile the anti-capitalist messages of the games with the "conscientous capitalist" mindset of OI? I know that there were a lot of people concerned about SoBe vending machines and that they somehow "Compromised" Oddworld. Were people upset because it was an earth product? because it was product placement? Or simply because one environmentally conscious corporation promoted another environmentally concsious corporation in an unconventional way? But perhaps this is a discussion for another time.
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