[azile0]

So, I checked my YouTube PMs for the first time in like, a year. I got tired of the hate mail. Well, it turns out that Dan Wentz from Volition had read my comment (I forget what/where) on some FS/FS2 video and sent me a message. And responded when I sent a message back. Totally surprised me.

[Mongoose]

Wow...that's really, really cool, actually.  It explains the little FS3 Easter egg in that RF2 April Fools' video, too.

[Galemp]

Woot.

Dan has always been really great with the community, particularly with the music.

[redsniper]

RF2

I snickered.

[Fenrir]

What did you send him between the first and second messages?

[Mongoose]

RF2

I snickered.

You get the idea.

[JGZinv]

You should ask him what "insane" amounts to in USD.

I do seem to recall there being a movement to get the funds together here to
try to buy them.

[colecampbell666]

Several, as a matter of fact. One guy was even willing to spend his inheritance on it, several million dollars.

[azile0]

I see. I am surprised to have a member of Volition contact me. I just saw the commercial for Saints Row 2. In fact, it's playing on my TV next to my computer now. As for FS3, I have heard from members of Hard-Light that Inerplay was holding a huge ransom for the Freespace license. How much could they ask for a game license, anyway? It couldn't be terribly expensive.. And, one thing that gaming companies have to remember is that THEY HAVE FANS!

Some fans of the Freespace series, like me, would gladly donate any money we could to the revitalization of the series. Some experienced people may even do indie development, as their way of contributing to a great game. Gaming companies don't need to lavish millions of dollars on a game, when the fans will probably ask for half of the price of the professionals. Just poke around Hard-light.net, and I think you'll find people who think just like me.

Thank you for your time.

I sent that on October 17, 2008.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Hail text advertising. Thanks for sending that to him, azile.

[Dilmah G]

Woah

[captain-custard]

as for buying the rights to freespace  it would probably be cheaper to buy interplay and that way you get all of there rights , there total stock value isnt that much atm so getting a controlling stake or owning it outright isnt that expensive ( i use that expensive if you are a really rich person )

[Mr. Vega]

If Saints Row 2 keeps selling well and the new Red Faction does great......and then we hear that the suits at Volition are optimistic and open to something else......and then I start roping myself into the idea that FS3 is still actually possible, when it's been ten.......****ing...........years............and I only haven't moved on, completely and wholly, because I still love HLP, and I get drawn into this, again, then that would be....just..........

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*head explodes*

[sigtau]

I'd love to see Dan Wentz reply a second time.  That would be epic.

If he does/already has, post it here, dammit.   

[CP5670]

It's great to see that Dan continues to interface with the community.

It's interesting that he says that acquiring the IP is the big hurdle though. I would think that even if they had the IP, making a high budget space sim in today's gaming market would in itself be a very risky venture.

[esarai]

Wow...that's really, really cool, actually.  It explains the little FS3 Easter egg in that RF2 April Fools' video, too.

What now? What video? Where?

[mxlm]

It's interesting that he says that acquiring the IP is the big hurdle though. I would think that even if they had the IP, making a high budget space sim in today's gaming market would in itself be a very risky venture.

I figured that was what he meant about profitability; given the expected return on a space sim, you can't afford to spend much of anything acquiring the rights to make it in the first place.

[Mongoose]

Wow...that's really, really cool, actually.  It explains the little FS3 Easter egg in that RF2 April Fools' video, too.

What now? What video? Where?

In the Red Faction: Guerrilla video that released on April Fools' Day introducing the Ostrich Hammer.  One of the whiteboards in the background of one scene had something like "FS3 Release" written on it.

[sigtau]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKi5-ZSKh24

That's the video in question.

[Snail]

FS3 huh.