The code was owned by Codemasters who sold it to a third party. Trickstar couldn't have used it without being sued.
Please forgive me for sounding like a broken record, but that is exactly my point. Even though they don't own the code they may have had access to it. I don't mean legal access to use it, I mean a version of it was still on someones hard drive at trickstar games. They could have used this code for the event in June when they invited journalists to preview the game to make it look more on track then it actually is and they could have used it to make 505 games also think they were on track.
Like you say they could never fully release the game using the old code because someone would have noticed and they would have been sued by the actual current owners of the IC2010 code. Hence, they tried to remake new code with the new engine as they were suppose to. It was this that they failed at, but 505 games may not have understood this and thought it was in a more completed stage as they had seen it before. Hence why it ended in a complete farcical outcome.
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Hmmm that would be interesting to see as in my opinion IC10 was a very good, not perfect but very good base to use for making a cricket game.
I agree. In my opinion it is easily the best cricket game on the market. Hopefully don bradmam will blow it out of the water. I think the only reason people don't seem to play it on this forum anymore is because it is on a console and thus difficult to mod.