Derek Smart and Freespace 3? [Jul 15, 2004, 7:33 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A speculative
question from 3000 AD's Derek Smart on the Adrenaline Vault Forums (thanks
Rake) polls interest in him acquiring the rights to Freespace 3, making the
following statements in a pair of posts:
....Derek Smart, yeah, that would be me, got the license from my friends at Interplay (a publisher I had very good experiences with); would you buy Freespace 3 if I made it?
Discuss. Rave. Rant. Argue. But this is something I am seriously considering, given that it looks like Interplay has started off loading properties (starting with Fallout3). I mean, just think. Would you rather see this legacy license fall into the wrong hands?
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I have already contacted my Interplay contact about it btw.
While most here have not directly answered the question, the indirect answer is quite clear, Derek. Would I buy Freespace 3? Yes. Would I buy it if you made it? Not a chance. I've tried all of the Battlecruisers and Universal Combat. None of them held any interest for me and most managed to piss me off just in the menus alone before I even got to PLAYING the game.
Freespace is an arcade-style space sim franchise like the Wing Commander's back in the day and I highly doubt you have any interest in maintaining that. My recommendation, if you already have the rights is to sit on it and look for a different development studio that wants to buy it from you. Bump the price up from what you paid, make a few bucks and let someone that is actually interested in making a real Freespace game create it.
Freespace is an arcade-style space sim franchise like the Wing Commander's back in the day and I highly doubt you have any interest in maintaining that. My recommendation, if you already have the rights is to sit on it and look for a different development studio that wants to buy it from you. Bump the price up from what you paid, make a few bucks and let someone that is actually interested in making a real Freespace game create it.
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