[Polpolion]

Well, what annoys me is that nobody actually seems to be all that annoyed about people mentioning Freespace 3 anymore. But everybody expects people to get annoyed and feels the need to comment on it, which just spams the thread and makes it hard to follow any useful discussion.

'Course, this is just as OT, if not more so.

I'm pretty sure it's because the older generations of HLPers first got pissed of when the next generation kept asking, and asked the next generation not to do it. After a while, the old generations either matured or left, leaving the newer generation to harass newbies about FS3, when no one is left to get bothered by it.

[achtung]

I like false hope.

[Prophet]

Well, what annoys me is that nobody actually seems to be all that annoyed about people mentioning Freespace 3 anymore. But everybody expects people to get annoyed and feels the need to comment on it, which just spams the thread and makes it hard to follow any useful discussion.

'Course, this is just as OT, if not more so.

I'm pretty sure it's because the older generations of HLPers first got pissed of when the next generation kept asking, and asked the next generation not to do it. After a while, the old generations either matured or left, leaving the newer generation to harass newbies about FS3, when no one is left to get bothered by it.

Maybe it's elder magic, and every one who says the forbidden words is marked for the rest of their lives.
Maybe there is A third One already in the making, but newbies are not told because they are annoying.
Maybe it's because the elders are tired of it and leave the newbies in their threads to whine about The Unmentionable.
Maybe the elders have seen this so many times they know how it's going to end and aren't bothered to even interfere.

Personally, I hope it's all four of them.

But the fact remains It is stupid, undesired and unnecessary. Check the ealier threads about this subject for more info.

[Gamma_Draconis]

Wait.... So the reason talk about FS3 is forbidden is because people are sick of people asking for FS3? Seems kinda drastic for something that minor. Why not just keep 1 FS3 thread pinned where people can talk about FS3 on that? I'm surprised that there isn't already a FS3 mod on the way.
Second post... I may only occasionally pop up every once in a while on the forums, but that doesn't mean I'm not viewing forums. Maybe we should try to convince more people to play FS2 SCP. I've met of people who wanted to play FS2 but never purchased the game and they had no idea that they could simply download FS2 off of the FS2 SCP website.

[karajorma]

While the occasional juicy titbit from [V] or Interplay (The fact that Interplay has been hovering near bankruptcy for the past two years for instance) occasionally stirs interest the general consensus of the community is to not mention FS3 at all unless there is something new to say about it. Comments about FS3 are generally unpopular amongst the veterans because we've seen them all before. If you have something new to contribute people will generally receive it politely but posting questions about FS3 that we've all seen a hundred times before generally results in a terse answer and a link to this site or the Wiki at best.

It's not just people asking for FS3. It's that people have discussed the subject to death already and after a while that gets tiring.

I'm not anywhere near as reactionary as some people are about it. I've never felt the need to call FS3 That Which Cannot Be Named or anything like that. And if the subject does come up in a discussion then I'll talk about it same as any other FS related subject.

But I will get somewhat annoyed if someone posts a "Let's make FS3 together" thread or a "I'm going to make FS3" thread as both of those are rather insulting to the community.

[Col. Fishguts]

Once upon a time people shouting "ZOMG, WHEN IS FS3 COMING OUT?!?" or "LET'S MAKE FS3, IT WILL BE SHUPER SWEET, LOLZ!!" were some of the most annoying people on HLP. Then the people going "DO NOT MENTION F S AND 3!!!HEDZ" started drowning them out until they became even more annoying than the people they were complaining about.

[BrotherBryon]

That and the whole Derek Smart scare 

[Unknown Target]

Basically the first generation were the ones that got so pissed off about it, because they were the ones that were there from the beginning and had to come to grips with the fact that the game would never be continued. The second generation came, and they raved about it, but the third generation told them it was bad so they stopped, without actually feeling that bad about it. Then the first generation pretty much left, and the second generation was all that was left when the third generation came around. The former started going bananas about when FS3 was mentioned, pretty much only because they were told to by the first generation. It's not really so much a sore spot though, because the second and third generations don't care as much as the first generation did/does.

Not saying that any generation is better than the other, just saying that each have different ties to game and the community's history. It's evolution, for better or worse (and that's up to individual opinion).

[IceFire]

Well it used to be that whenever someone said FreeSpace 3 (and often somehow misplacing the question mark) people got all excited about how Volition had somehow pulled it off and there really was going to be a FreeSpace 3.  Well after a while that started to get a bit annoying...the sudden hope and then dashed again.  So folks asked people not to...or at least make ample use of  the question mark when referencing the title.  It wouldn't be so bad I think if FreeSpace 2 hadn't ended the way it did.  Its like a cliffhanger to a TV show that was never picked up for another season....maybe worse.

I would strongly advise against trying to name any project FreeSpace 3.  You invite far too much negative attention or potentially create too many false hopes for people who don't know or who don't know any better.  Thats not to say you couldn't carry the spirit of the game on into a sequel like form...that'd be no problem. But calling it the direct sequel assumes far too much.

[Wobble73]

That's the best thing about the FreeSpace SCP and this community, we can all learn to FRED/Script/Model etc. or whatever and then go ahead and make your own vision of what FreeSpace 3 would have been like.  Then you can share that vision with everyone else here and we get a gamut of great campaigns with updated graphics that will keep us coming back for more! 

FS2:SCP FTW

[jr2]

FS2:SCP FTW

[Grizzly]

Um, Freespace 3 is here... Freespace 3!  ...dot 6...dot 9...

[AqueousShadow]

Um, Freespace 3 is here... Freespace 3!  ...dot 6...dot 9...

Good luck, Mr. EliteT3

The hell, I've been here five years, today. Yea, we've seen it all. Now move on.

EDIT: Oops. Well, just ignore me and let it die again lol

[colecampbell666]

Wait.... So the reason talk about FS3 is forbidden is because people are sick of people asking for FS3? Seems kinda drastic for something that minor. Why not just keep 1 FS3 thread pinned where people can talk about FS3 on that? I'm surprised that there isn't already a FS3 mod on the way.
Second post... I may only occasionally pop up every once in a while on the forums, but that doesn't mean I'm not viewing forums. Maybe we should try to convince more people to play FS2 SCP. I've met of people who wanted to play FS2 but never purchased the game and they had no idea that they could simply download FS2 off of the FS2 SCP website.

We need some Free(Space) advertising. Maybe see if GameSpot or IGN would like to do a thing on the SCP?