[karajorma]

Originally posted by WildWolf
If you give Derek Smart the license to Freespace I will stab each and every one of you. That man should not be in the game industry. period.

We'd deserve to be frank.

How would [V] react to us giving you free rein at Freespace i.e we buy it you develop it? If that something THQ/V would be happy with or would they be reluctant to work with fans of the game?

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by karajorma


We'd deserve to be frank.

How would [V] react to us giving you free rein at Freespace i.e we buy it you develop it? If that something THQ/V would be happy with or would they be reluctant to work with fans of the game?

More importantly, would THQ / V be willing to develop a new Freespace game if they had the license for free?

[kasperl]

Even more interesting, would :V:/THQ be willing to pitch in with a few bucks?

[Fineus]

Originally posted by kasperl
Even more interesting, would :V:/THQ be willing to pitch in with a few bucks?

Good point really, if V and THQ were willing to put forth the sizable contribution to get the rights - and the community put forth what they could, then gave their portion over to V and THQ for development.. well a lot more funding could be raised that way. Of course it pends V and THQs approval - but it's what we'd all like to see in the end.

[Singh]

has someone even mailed THQ/V yet?

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Singh
has someone even mailed THQ/V yet?

I believe so, yes.  I think everyone here would be interested in learning V's opinion on the whole situation.

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Singh
has someone even mailed THQ/V yet?

Sadly, V's been quite unresponsive to emails at all its listed addresses... for several months now, at the least.

[MicroPsycho]

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't [V] sell the FS licence in the first place?

And if they got it back do they even have a development team left?

[karajorma]

[V] never had the license. The license was held by the distributor Interplay.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Setekh


Sadly, V's been quite unresponsive to emails at all its listed addresses... for several months now, at the least.

What about THQ?  Is there a PR contact you could go via?

[MicroPsycho]

It not THQ's fault that that they have no penises and the are all assholes, they are just extremely power-hungry bastards that don't know when to quit and need attention like three year old little boys that turn ou t to be bullies...

(sorry, just a little passionate about the Legacy that FreeSpace has left so many dependent gamers)

[Eishtmo]

I've got $500 to put toward a general fund to buy it.

If bought, I say declare it public domain so no one could ever claim to own Freespace again.

[heretic]

Buying the license is not easy- you need to have backing, and the funds to do so- we're talking in the tens of thousands in some cases.

If, by some chance, we were to be able to raise an amount close to what this Derek guy can, then it's go into a bid process, i.e. what else we can offer and how much.

I hate to say it, but the majority of FS fans, including those here, are broke.

[StratComm]

That may be the point.  Get Interplay to raise the price to something 'ole DS wasn't willing to pay, and they sink with the ship or we get them.  Not that we could do that easily, but it just may be worth the attempt.  He's talking about picking something up on the cheap so there might not be as much money involved as we think.

[Unknown Target]

Could someone (preferably the admins) e-mail THQ about it?

[heretic]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
Could someone (preferably the admins) e-mail THQ about it?

If THQ hasn't done anything about it yet, they won't.

Besides, THQ is more concerned about adventure-based snowboarding games IIRC.

[MicroPsycho]

Originally posted by Crazy_Ivan80
It might be intersting to actively seek out any other surviving freespace communities around. That way you'd might be able to, maybe, garner the support of another 1000 fans tops (and that's an optimistic estimate I'm afraid).

Anyway, I think any chances of the community acquiring the rights to FS are moot at best. We don't even know how much the IP rights are worth at this very moment. And you can be damned sure that the moment competition for the rights arrivesat the scene the price will go up. Which means we'd be outbid pretty quickly I believe. After all, we don't have any reserve to fall back on.

And if, by luck, the community does acquire the rights: then what? I'm sure some members would like to recoup some of their expences (with a good plan and contract that might be do-able) but the market for FS-stuff might not be as big as we think.
Space-sims have been in hibernation for years basically and the various space-sim communities are fragmented. However, with the rights we'd potentially be able to co-opt (read: sell to) the Wing Commander bunch over at the CiC (Though they'd probably be miffed at the thought of the FS-community have the actual rights to a game while they have to work with with they have).

Anyway, to end this -before I go in rant-mode- I'm not optimistic at all about Community chances.

But good luck anyway.
CI80

Meaning someone else will acquire the licence and do something with it, right?

[Executor]

I think we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. Before we give the license away we have to buy it. Yet we don't even know the price. Does anybody have any idea what price range the license would fall into? $10,000? $100,000?

[aldo_14]

A lot more than we could probably raise.

We're really just clinging onto little strings of hope, here........

[Krackers87]

this may be the man we have to talk to:

INTERPLAY PRODUCTIONS, INC.
                    17922 Fitch Avenue
                    Irvine, California 92714
                    Attention: Brian Fargo

Edit: Well, apparently he isnt part of interplayu anymore... : /