[Kazan]

I just spoke with a V-god, everyone (including myself) needs to calm down

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[Carl]

which one? what did he/she/it say?

[Kazan]

One that knows, the THQ guys comments were very poorly stated


THQ aquired Volition because it makes money - you don't fix that which is not broken

[Jabu]

In the computer world, nothing is ever "broken". It's just "non-updated".

So in a publisher's sense, that which is not broken needs to be updated. Incidentally, that which IS broken, also needs to be updated.

[This message has been edited by Jabu (edited 11-11-2001).]

[Grey Wolf]

I haven't been there in a long time. I looked at the front page and recognized 3 names. Oh well, I just bumped the Freespace Bible for the hell of it. Shrike, Setekh, Thunder, Kazab, remember that?  

[Fineus]

Yes  

[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by Fantomeye:
That topic seems to have bit the big one daddio.

Pity, I wanted to see what it was on about...  

[Styxx]

Me too...

[The Avenger]

basically it was about the poor QUALTIY of all thq games that the majority of the games that they own are for 5 year olds

[Setekh]

Doesn't sound too good.  

[WarpStar]

 

Originally posted by Setekh:
Doesn't sound too good.  

Hmmmmm, I haven't played many THQ games.  Summoner was the exception.  Who knows, maybe   will convince them to get the rights from Interplay.

[The Avenger]

summonor was a thq game

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[Vertigo1]

 

Originally posted by Kazan:
I just spoke with a V-god, everyone (including myself) needs to calm down

Could ya fwd that conversation to me?  

(either e-mail or ICQ will do.)

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[Top Gun]

Oh crap, all of the Retards that gave squad War a bad name are all flooding into the main FS2 forum like rats off a sinking ship. I thought it was bad before but now 80% of the threads are spam and/or flames. Wave goodbye to the Freespace forum. With the amount of idiocy flooding into it ATM (especially as the retards are all embittered about the closing of their forum), I see no reason why it isn't going to go totally (I mean totally, nothing like we've seen before.) down the Monkeyer, and finish up like the Squad war forum.

[Shrike]

 

Originally posted by Thunder:
Yes

[Fineus]

Maybe the VBB will go down completely, but it's been a place of mixed progress recently anyway - and it's hardly suprising to see this happening when the SW forum was closed. Fortunately I'm ever the optimist and am glad that we have this place, horray for sanity  

[Kazan]

I just happened to save a copy of it  

 

From Me on the VBB

Until this morning I was had faith in THQ to do the right thing  when it came to our beloved Volition. With the closure of the Squad War forum that wasn't shaken much, but the comments Bavarrati made about moving to supporting only future games has shaken my confidence in you.
I recently looked at your list of upcoming games, and quite frankly I don't see anything that will have a snowball's chance in a volcano of selling well, on the console or the PC market. Why? They're too 5 year oldish, I don't know of five year olds that use consoles gaming platforms alone, let alone PC gaming platforms. The only time kids of that age use them is if they have an older sibling that does, the older sibling determines what games are purchased, and they're not going to buy them.
Your line up of PC games is worse than pathetic now that I look at it (http://www.thq.com/Games/index.asp?PlatformID=9) I only see two games that anyone from here would be likely to purchase, Summoner and Red Faction, and that's not just simply because they're from Volition. It's because they are something, they have a storyline and they do someting that nobody has done before (GeoMod in Red Faction).
Volition deserves the company of better than these titles, they are one of the best game programming companies I know of, do not waste them, they can make you millions, heck even billions. You just have to let them make games at their leisure, leave them more breathing room and choice in what they write and how they write it and you will no be disapointed.
What is further disheartening is many of your newer titles I am looking at have no PC support, the computer is Volition's home, they were born there and they rose to greatness there. Consoles quite frankly are inferior gaming devices, but I know you do not care you care about nothing but how much $ you get from us. Well if you continue to have Volition write good games and support the PC you will make large profits, if you discontinue Volition's support of the PC platform you will loose millions and the most dedicated modding cadre ever seen!.
The bottom line is: You give us what we want (great games from V), well give you what you want (Money).


Derek "Kazan" Meek
5000+ posts on the Volition Bulletin Boards (as you can see at left)
Author of:
FreeSpace 2 Programmable Installer (AKA Unholy Alliance Progammable Installer)
FreeSpace 2 Mission Background Utility
FreeSpace 2 PAckage Manager
VP Constructor Suite (Package stuffer for Volition PAckfiles)
POF Constructor Suite (Model editor and model compiler [Caligari Object Binary to Parallax Object File] for FreeSpace 2)

Red Faction Modificiation Manager - downloads + installs, uninstalls, and runs Red Faction with mods
Red Faction Level Manager - [in the works] Downloads and manages user made levels for Red Faction

Founder of Alliance Productions (http://alliance.sourceforge.net)
Former Developer of Unholy Alliance - the "to-be" largest campaign ever developed for FreeSpace 2, project terminated in frustration - after alpha phase completetion of 45 missions!
Member of FreeSpace 2: The Babylon Project, the only REAL total conversion for FreeSpace 2
Master Modification Author of FreeSpace 2
Former Squadwar Squad command (55th StarSlayers)
Former Co-founder of the largest alliance on squad war - the Allied Forces of FreeSpace 2 (AFOFS2)
Long standing constructive critic of Volition's programming

[This message has been edited by Kazan (edited 11-13-2001).]

[Fineus]

Do you have their reply? (if any).

[Kazan]

their reply was deleting it

[Fineus]

Heh, great