VTM Redemption Reawakened Project

Utterly stunning work and screenshots thus far! I hope that development continues to proceed as smoothly as ever.

Critical Legal development for the project as we managed to contact Activision Business Development and they refused our offer. This concludes our contacts with Activision on permissions, and we’ve decided to change the project towards our own canonical re-interpretation of VtM: Redemption events. Just to be clear, this is our decision, not a shutdown. It impacted nothing in development progress, and we are still alive and ok and will continue working as ever--if not even harder. You can find all the details in attached graphics:

I hear there's a need for text form, here's a transcript:
There was a critical legal development for our project. After 7 months we managed to re-contact post-Microsoft-takeover Activision for a final stance on our project, and their Director of Business Development decided to pass on our offer (response screen attached).
We replied by asking questions to confirm or debunk information granted to us in December 2023 contact; no response. This essentially concludes the matter of permissions from Activision for our project. We have done everything in our power to do this legally, and in light of Activision’s stance, we’ve made a decision.
We are no longer remaking Activision’s VtM: Redemption (VtMR) as it was in original release; instead we are now focusing on reinterpretation of the canonical events of VtM: Redemption.
Now just to clarify some fundamental facts:
This is our own decision as a legal safety precaution
We have not been shut down or issued a C&D order
This decision has NOT impacted the development progress of this project at all
We are still here; this project is alive and well, but it’s just gonna have to be a bit different
(Further details and justification of the decision are clarified in our Discord FAQ pt. 12.)
This development comes at a critical juncture for our project development, as we are closing in on  finishing the most fundamental technological and mechanical advancements. After 3 years we have finally prepared foundations to create a VtM universe cRPG game as a mod for Skyrim; all this time we’ve consciously developed this mod as an individual re-interpretation of VtMR content, while avoiding any conflicting content. Now it’s time to put all this work to use and finally MAKE THIS GAME.
Welcome to project Vampire the Masquerade: Reawakened
We now rely on this simple 3-point plan which will be our work for the next months:
Identify and remove all non-canonical content that belongs to Activision (mostly characters that appear nowhere else in the WoD canon)
The subsequent gaps will be filled up with custom (canonically derived if not canonical) content to create a custom reinterpretation of the game that only relies on Paradox IP
Happy fans
This plan of course has some consequences. Mainly this means our writers must create an equally decent, engaging, climactic set of content to replenish all that must be cut out. We will be submitting potential plans to Paradox Legal/Licensing so as to announce our intentions and verify their take on our continuation.
This opens us to new possibilities once restricted by the original game. This automatically means we are entering a spoiler area while being a free public project with a complete transparency policy. The publications of news, dev diaries, screenshots, videos will still be coming and as often as ever; but we just cannot show you the new content we will be developing. My only spoiler to you is: If you know what’s going on in Redemption, then you already know what will happen in Reawakened, but don’t expect that’s all you’re gonna get
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Critical Legal development for the project as we managed to contact Activision Business Development and they refused our offer. This concludes our contacts with Activision on permissions, and we’ve decided to change the project towards our own canonical re-interpretation of VtM: Redemption events. Just to be clear, this is our decision, not a shutdown. It impacted nothing in development progress, and we are still alive and ok and will continue working as ever--if not even harder. You can find all the details in attached graphics:

More or less. It's also an opporunity to fix some things. For example Ardan of Ardan's Chantry actually survives till Modern Nights so we have to conclude his encounter with a cutscene of escaping. The only 2 canonical Coterie sidekicks are Serana and Pink, therefore we can make Serana the one who survives AND re-joins our coterie in Modern Nights. These are now ones of hundreds of tiny lil details that the lore & writing team gotta play with. I proposed we just make a rip off with such canonical fixes. My lore co-lead says we should turn the game upside down and make it medieval-renaissance-victorian-modern to tackle a lot more rich canonical events around the World. We're making proposals that will later be up to a grand public Vote, we'll tally the results and take the course that the fans want most.

Ah, that's a shame. I guess this is a downside of working on an existing intellectual property, certain rightsholders can be uncooperative.
It was smart of you and the team to plan the project around a potential turndown though, hopefully development stays smooth as you pivot.
Thanks for the update!

Or expand parts of the original story left unfinished.
Like the role of that archbishop who clashed with Christof in Prague who after his Embrace suddenly vanishes from the story.
Or Wilhelm, who must be too neck deep in the Sabbat to suddenly see his old friend and become "good" again.
Or the roles of Ecaterina, Serena.... and how the Masquerade works in modern times.

Ok so here's several small video footages just to engage you guys before the biggest event of the year, Development Report 4 which is well under way and expected to drop this week.