[Charismatic]

Lofl. No one *****es about this:

Were laying off 86 of 112 QA workers, now were working on FS3. Lofl. Setting up for a fail. Could be ****.

But i hope not.

[Polpolion]

Are there any Freespace devs in the HLP forums?

IIRC DaveB used to pop in every now and then to see what was happening with the SCP, but he's it. He's a senior programmer.

[Charismatic]

Not around no more?

[The E]

Lofl. No one *****es about this:

Were laying off 86 of 112 QA workers, now were working on FS3. Lofl. Setting up for a fail. Could be ****.

But i hope not.

Okay, seriously. Here's what [V] has to say about this:

Volition layoffs??? Uh, no.

Perhaps you’ve read some articles about layoffs at Volition. Well, while we are sad that we’ll soon be saying goodbye to a bunch of people we’ve been working with, there are no layoffs at Volition. There are layoffs at THQ’s QA facility in Champaign which, among other things, is testing Red Faction Guerrilla. Shortly after the completion of testing on RFG, the gradual closure of the QA facility here will begin. We’re very sorry to see this happen because they are our friends and they are great testers and they have made a big contribution to our games.

As unfortunate as that is, it won’t have any effect on RFG. And, happily, sixteen of those testers will be moving over to Volition to help us on some unannounced projects and form the core test teams on our future games. All laid-off employees will be given at least sixty days’ notice and we will do what we can to assist them in finding work in the community or elsewhere in THQ.

Fresh from the Volition Website.

In short: Noone at [V] is being fired. THQ is downsizing/consolidating their QA-department, nothing more, nothing less. There is no confirmation as to wether or not [V] is currently working on (or has plans to work on) anything even remotely related to FS.

[Dark RevenantX]

I honestly hope that they do not make a FreeSpace 3.  I hope they DO make a spiritual successor, though, kind of how Supreme Commander is to Total Annihilation.

[ShadowGorrath]

I honestly hope that they DO make FS3. If you don't like it- don't play it. FS2 won't die anyway. . .

[GTSVA]

I honestly hope that they DO make FS3. If you don't like it- don't play it. FS2 won't die anyway. . .

 

[S-99]

I reply with my sig......

[Dark RevenantX]

As much as I would like a FS3, we all know it would dissapoint us in some way or another, and possibly piss a bunch of people off.  I'd like a conclusion to the storyline, or at least a canon continuation of it, definitely,  But in terms of an actual game, I'd like to see Volition avoid a potential mess by making a new universe.  At least that way they'd be able to avoid dealing with Interplay.

[Kosh]

Can we confirm that they are even making FS3? The original gist of the article was wrong, so what about the rest of it?

[Sololop]

I'm just going to ignore the article and not think about FS3 until Volition officially announces it.

Which will never happen imho.

[IceFire]

Probably bad reporting.  Until we hear anything more I would seriously doubt it.

THQ would have to have gone loony not to order some sort of knockoff game of a movie or Nickelodeon TV show.  But if they were I'd give them props.

The one...and perhaps only thing going for a new FreeSpace game would be that the old games have an established fan base that is small but very strong.  Of course the easy way to kill it is to announce it for console only with no editor tools or dumbed down gameplay.

[Dark RevenantX]

Based on the quality of Volition PC ports, I doubt they could pull it off IMO.

However, if Kara wins the lottery, he could buy the FS license so HLP could turn it into an indie title.  Keep in mind that this scenario has about the same chance to happen as Volition deciding to develop it.

[Charismatic]

I read that from V's site. But there were several sites that said differently.

[The E]

That may be. But, honestly: Is there any credible, confirmed news of FS3 in development? Or, if you are addressing the layoffs: How are those sources more credible than [V] themselves?

[S-99]

That may be. But, honestly: Is there any credible, confirmed news of FS3 in development? Or, if you are addressing the layoffs: How are those sources more credible than [V] themselves?

This is why i just reply with my sig....it's got one thing from the old days about derek smart from the old days of talking about fs3. It's uncomfirmed, regurgitated, and good enough.

[General Battuta]

No. There's nothing credible. We have no idea if FS3 is even being considered.

[S-99]

Freespace in the layoffs article is bait. Want to know what aromas DS is cooking up (burrito and lots of cabbage)?

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Well, even if there is no FS3, we still have FS2, and even better, it's a free* community out here.

* - May not include models, backgrounds, music and sounds.

[Charismatic]

And we have eachother.

It sure does get lonely in space...