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.
So yet again I ask the question. Would you buy Freespace 3? YES OR NO
Developed by you? No. You have experience in making space sims, thats the only pro for having 3000AD and Derek Smart at the helm of Freespace 3.
Were Volition to acquire the license I'd pick up the game in an instant. If Totally Games acquired the license I'd buy the game in an instant. If any half-way competent dev, even one without experience in the space combat genre, acquired the license I'd buy the game in an instant.
Until you learn some of the absolute basics of game design, namely that it is better to do a few things well than it is do do many things poorly, and evaluate, analyze and learn from the failure of your previous games I will not purchase one of your products.
Go ahead and lecture me on how I've never published a game. I'm sure it is quite difficult to do but the degree to which you ignore common sense gives anyone the right to say you need to either learn from your mistakes or leave the industry.
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