[Retsof]

I just saw FS2 on Impulse for $19.99.  Could this be promising?
EDIT:  Anybody know how to get a plug for the SCP in there?

[Sushi]

Not sure why you'd buy it for $20 from Impulse when you can get it DRM free for $6 at GoG.com.

[Thaeris]

And How!, Sushi! Yeah, that's a moronic expenditure if I ever heard of one, just like getting FS on Steam (if such is possible) would be. Hell, just go to GOG and get FS1 and FS2 for $12 USD...

[Retsof]

I think they're counting on not many people to be browsing GOG.

[General Battuta]

Oh man, FreeSpace 2 on Steam would be the best thing. We'd have droves of new users, especially as the Steam page for the game could link here. Steam sales cause such enormous booms in game popularity that they've been known to save entire studios.

[SpardaSon21]

Are we interested in saving Interplay though?  If they die,  maybe they'll be desperate enough to sell THQ the rights to FS3.

[General Battuta]

Interplay can DIAF but I can't imagine strong sales for an old game would hurt V's prospects of getting a third one greenlit.

[ShivanSpS]

Oh man, FreeSpace 2 on Steam would be the best thing. We'd have droves of new users, especially as the Steam page for the game could link here. Steam sales cause such enormous booms in game popularity that they've been known to save entire studios.

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[Polpolion]

for( ; ; )

why

[Sushi]

for( ; ; )

why

Because while(true) isn't cryptic enough.

[QuantumDelta]

Besides that one looks like a smilie

[Marcov]

:Derezzed:

[General Battuta]

Or you could get it for free from Demonoid.

quoted before the edit

[Zacam]

Or you could get it intelligently from GoG.

There, I fixed it. Marcov, consider this a warning. FreeSpace is to be properly supported by Hard-Light (and the SCP/FSU).

[Mongoose]

Yes, please to not being a total douchebag.

[Charismatic]

Ooo someones in trouble!

[BlueFlames]

Not sure why you'd buy it for $20 from Impulse when you can get it DRM free for $6 at GoG.com.

Not every gamer in the world is familiar with GoG.  GoG certainly the avenue of acquisition that I would recommend to anybody asking me about FreeSpace, but if somebody is looking for a space sim, while browsing the Impulse store, FreeSpace can now jump off the page at them.  Honestly, I'd say that the more legitimate avenues of acquisition, the better, in the case of FreeSpace (and other such under-appreciated gems).  I'd cream myself with joy, if FreeSpace showed up on Steam, whether for five dollars or fifteen dollars or fifty dollars.  Why?  More exposure means more players means more community growth means more content produced, etc., etc., etc.  Maybe at certain levels the price mitigates the effect, but if FreeSpace showed up on a digital distribution site for $5000, someone (emphasis on 'one') would buy it, and maybe despite having more money than brains, that person would turn out having a lot to contribute to the community.

[MatthTheGeek]

More exposure tends to mean more noobs, more trolls and more trouble much more than more content. I prefer the FS community to remain small, serious and productive rather than to turn into a Halo fanbase-ish mess.

[BlueFlames]

More exposure tends to mean more noobs, more trolls and more trouble much more than more content.

Oh, sure.  I remember all the problems we had when FS2 started hitting digital distribution sites in the first place.  I remember the horrors that followed the release of the source code.  That was terrible.  We should endeavor to keep the game a secret, so that we can return to the days of community sites quietly dying and new mission releases dwindling to nothing.  That'd be absolute gravy.  No new players!  No new players!  No new players!

Oh, wait.  Those days sucked nuts.  Ross 128, the first website for which I wrote content, lost visitors faster than new ones could take their place - closed.  Volition Watch, which maintained a larger community than Hard Light at the time, couldn't find new staff quickly enough to replace the outgoing oldguard - closed.  Parallax Online, the multiplayer service designed for FreeSpace and Descent 3, was so disused that when maintanence issues brought the servers down, nobody could afford the time to restore them - closed.  ****ing tragedies, every one, and you'd see those days return because you hate "noobs".

Personally, I'll take the good with the bad, so that the FreeSpace community continues to thrive.  More ways to purchase FreeSpace, please.

[General Battuta]

Pretty much what BlueFlames said.