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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Night Wolf on August 06, 2005, 01:12:42 am
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Do you wish they maid a FreeSpace 3. well Here is a Petition to make a FreeSpace 3 if you did not sign plz do here is the link. http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?FS3&1
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*sighs*
As much as we appreciate your eagerness, I really should point out to you that there is never going to be a FS3.
Why?
WHEN IS FREESPACE 3 COMING OUT?
Well things have certainly gotten interesting on this issue. FS3 used to be a sore issue with most of the community. Asking questions about it tended to get you complained at the first time and flamed to a crisp if you were foolish enough to ask again. However the announcement by Derek Smart (creator of the BattleCruiser 3000 series) that he was attempting to purchase the licence has certainly reopened the debate. Quite simply at the moment no one knows.
If you're wondering how the situation got to this point, Volition, (Simply known as [V] by the fans), the makers of Freespace had it published by a company called Interplay. Volition later struck a deal with another publisher THQ but Interplay retained the rights to Freespace. Since Interplay didn't sell the rights to [V] or hire another developer to make FS3 we were left waiting for it to appear.
The Freespace Community tried various methods to bring about FS3 including petitions and mailings to [V] and Interplay. None of these had had much of an effect since (somewhat surprisingly) Freespace 2 didn't do very well and interplay didn't wish to stick their neck out to write a third.
The really annoying thing about this is that [V] have made several statements that show their programmers are willing to do a third Freespace game but can't since Interplay hold the licenses. Interplay is now in financial trouble and many people have suggested that [V]'s parent company THQ might buy the licence. Hopefully they will, but I'm not holding my breath.
Hope this is helpful to you. :)
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Oh boy... Here it comes.
*runs for shelter*
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INT: Raa's house
Raa is glancing through the HLP forums when he encounters a thread pretaining to Freespace 3
Raa:(to self) Closed!
Raa presses the close button with utmost confidence
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NB: I only picked Raa because he seems to be most active in these kinds of dealings, other admins may feel free to edit (goober might get this one too) ofcourse, that's kinda a waste of time.
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so they are not going to finish the stroy how mean.
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No, that wasn't said.
It was said that we simply don't know what will happen.
If THQ buys the lisence than they may verry well be a FS3. If not, then the chances are far smaller.
Either way, any info on it is nigh impossible to get.
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Originally posted by FireCrack
NB: I only picked Raa because he seems to be most active in these kinds of dealings, other admins may feel free to edit (goober might get this one too) ofcourse, that's kinda a waste of time.
Raa's not an Admin, he's a Mod :p
FS3 is very unlikely to happen, since Games cost about $15 Million to develop, and a game which had such a small amount of buyers for the second installment (third if you count ST), is very unlikely to make $15 Million for the Game's developers.
(Although why FS2's storyline writers can't just buy the license, and FRED FS3 using the FS2 engine is beyond me. As long as they put the mission in .fs2 format, we could still play them with up-to-date graphics using the SCP. And it's not like it'd cost them much money, since they wouldn't have to create a new engine.)
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Originally posted by kietotheworld
(Although why FS2's storyline writers can't just buy the license, and FRED FS3 using the FS2 engine is beyond me. As long as they put the mission in .fs2 format, we could still play them with up-to-date graphics using the SCP. And it's not like it'd cost them much money, since they wouldn't have to create a new engine.)
Because they'd make sod all money and it'd take up their free time?
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Ok, admins, delete this thread please? Before it goes anywhere?j
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Quick and easy answer: Go win the Lotto Then come back here with the License... Till then no more mention of those three letters PLEASE!
:)
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*Raa Arrives and yadda yadda yadda...*
Sorry, Night Wolf, but these things have all been done to death in the past. You can petition till your blue in the face, but it'll take alot more than that to get FS3 made. There are legal and financial reasons that this game has never come to fruition, and petitioning here works as well as protesting outside of a Dunkin Donuts because you think they should rename the store.
Thread closed to spare any flaming.
Your heart's in the right place, but.... this never works... sorry.