 After several months of negotiations, Activision issued its own cease-and-desist to "The Silver Lining" team, requesting that they cease production and take down all related materials on the game website.On June 26, 2010, Phoenix Online Studios announced that Activision had changed its mind and decided to allow "The Silver Lining" to be released, which was agreed on condition of TSL remaining a free release and Activision still keeping the rights to all the content bearing resemblance to the original series.Sometime in June 2014 Phoenix has turned over the rights to Activision, whose owners were looking to reboot the series, but keeping it a secret (this is why Phoenix has started with a statement of becoming a publisher first).