[Redfang]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer



Stealth mate, were you not a VBB memeber?

Certainly doesn't seem like he ever was.
 
 
It's almost impossible to think about more ideas how could you get FS3. Someone has thought about them already, but nothing has never worked.

[Ulundel]

Actually, I'm not looking forward to FS3. Think about this...
When FS3 would be succesful, we would possibly end up with Freespace 75 plus this tiny community here would be probably attacked by hordes of flesh eating shivans...no, stupid 12 years old spammers.

[heretic]

aquisition of copyrights is not as easy as buying something like at Amazon people

[JR2000Z]

Oh god. Not another one of these topics....



FS3 isn't ever going to happen. THQ isn't going to buy the rights, even if it is ten bucks. They're there to make a profit. They're not going to spend another three years and thousands of dollars just to satify 50 fans.


About D4, judging from the profits it made in that past, THQ might consider buying the rights because Interplay isn't interested in working on another one.

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by JR2000Z Oh god. Not another one of these topics....

FS3 isn't ever going to happen. THQ isn't going to buy the rights, even if it is ten bucks. They're there to make a profit. They're not going to spend another three years and thousands of dollars just to satify 50 fans.

Who says it won't make a profit? Freespace 2 got excellent reviews, the thing it most lacked was advertising. THQ still has a reasonable chance of capitalizing on its success (and existing fanbase), since it still has most of the original Freespace 2 team on its payroll, and who enjoy working on Freespace. Granted, daveb and co. might prefer Barbie Fashion Designer over Freespace. It's hard to imagine daveb debating his next Barbie's outfit whilst chugging a Bosch Beer, however.

About D4, judging from the profits it made in that past, THQ might consider buying the rights because Interplay isn't interested in working on another one.

I agree that D4 has more of a chance coming out than Freespace 3, but Interplay's going to want much more for it than the Freespace rights...Interplay selling the Descent rights would be comparable to Blizzard selling the rights to Starcraft.

[Stryke 9]

It's just not the sort of thing that's selling anymore. Right now, the flight sim market is saturated with simply amazing graphics engines, and nothing with a lot of plot, or anything other than fantastic graphics. It's what people are buying, now. When FS came out, things were a tad different- in case you never noticed, FS was NEVER the most advanced game around for long.

Besides, if the FS rights were for sale for so cheap, I'd have bought them and charged you all royalties for mentioning the name by now.

[Unknown Target]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
It's just not the sort of thing that's selling anymore. Right now, the flight sim market is saturated with simply amazing graphics engines, and nothing with a lot of plot, or anything other than fantastic graphics. It's what people are buying, now.

I-War 2 and IL-2 Sturmovik are notable exceptions (probably more so the former than the latter)

[Stryke 9]

You gonna tell me I-War wasn't a graphics game? Look at it. Look at the cutscenes. See a difference, without looking too hard?

I think it's debatable whether the game had a point beyond being pretty. It was pretty damn repetitive, and the plot was standard B-movie-esque game fare.