[Selectah]

IP's web presence is zip-a-doodle-doo. I checked the domain name, and the registration's good. The server, as well. I sense intent.

[Oddgrim]

RIP Interplay, you where never truly alive.

[Novachen]

RIP Interplay, you where never truly alive.

I would say, that they were never truly dead 

Much more resilent than Atari IMO

[Oddgrim]

RIP Interplay, you where never truly alive.

I would say, that they were never truly dead 

Much more resilent than Atari IMO

Fair

[mjn.mixael]

If Interplay completely dissolves... who's selling FS?

[Nightmare]

If Interplay completely dissolves... who's selling FS?

I'm sure Mr. Not-Smart will try in that case.

[Novachen]

Well, because Freespace changed over half of my lifetime, i would spend over a half of my money for it .

But i hope i do not need up to 600k $ for that, because then i think my husband would consider to send me right into a psychiatry if i do that only for the love to freespace

[Oddgrim]

If Interplay completely dissolves... who's selling FS?

I bet it will be this guy, poor fella has not had anything to do since they lost the fallout ip.
 

[Nightmare]

One way or another, it'd be good to see the company that murdered FS3 being buried alive.

[Cyborg17]

Smallest glimmer of hope at last????

[CT27]

One way or another, it'd be good to see the company that murdered FS3 being buried alive.

This is something (might be a rumor) I read a long time ago on this site, but supposedly Volition wanted to make an official FS2 expansion campaign, but Interplay killed the idea.

[Nightmare]

One way or another, it'd be good to see the company that murdered FS3 being buried alive.

This is something (might be a rumor) I read a long time ago on this site, but supposedly Volition wanted to make an official FS2 expansion campaign, but Interplay killed the idea.

That was probably their first victim. (Not entirely sure though whether that was their fault too)

Now people have been trying to built what they destroyed for almost 2 decades.

[Cyborg17]

This is something (might be a rumor) I read a long time ago on this site, but supposedly Volition wanted to make an official FS2 expansion campaign, but Interplay killed the idea.

I remember this, too.  It's somewhere here on the forums.

[Asteroth]

To answer your question, work had started on an expansion pack for FS2, but it got killed pretty early on. I think it might have been about returning to Earth, but I really don't remember.

From the interview with Jason Scott.

[jr2]

Crowdfund buying the IP + making FS3 (doesn't have to be a sequel, yo)  if that happens.

[PIe]

I'd donate to buying the FS IP, but only so that HLP could hold it to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.  I wouldn't be happy with some sort of fan-created "official" FS3.

[mjn.mixael]

There is no fan creation that could ever be FS3.. even if HLP held the IP (which is very, very unlikely).

[Nightmare]

I'd love to see a community owned FS IP (I mean, we could distribute it for free then, right?), but I think that it is highly unlikely to happen.

[CT27]

There is no fan creation that could ever be FS3.. even if HLP held the IP (which is very, very unlikely).

There might even be some objection to calling Blue Planet FS3 correct?

[Nightmare]

There is no fan creation that could ever be FS3.. even if HLP held the IP (which is very, very unlikely).

There might even be some objection to calling Blue Planet FS3 correct?

BP is a cool thing, but it is actually never FS3. While probably played with the idea to add new species (the Ancients), I massively doubt they'd ever done something like the Vishnans (in fact, their concept is contrary to Canon, which had the Shivans being both Destroyers and Preservers).

It's like Sync/Transcend, but much more complex of course - something that if you unbind the story from FS you could easily sell as a book, but not necessarily a FS game.

Even INF, which is pretty much what everybody believed to be what FS3 would be like for a long time - first fighting Earth, than the Shivans - is apparently something different to what Volition intended if you read the interview thread carefully.