08-27-2013, 06:32 PM
(08-27-2013, 06:08 AM)Lissa Wrote: *cough*
This is misleading. Stardock acquired the rights to the Star Control series (e.g. Star Control I, II, and III). However, they do not have the rights to create another Star Control game, since Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III actually own the name to it through Accolade (it's complicated). This is why the open-source spinoff production of Star Control II is called The Ur-Quan Masters (the original subtitle to Star Control II).
Stardock's going to make a game, sure, but it really won't have anything to do with Star Control. They will just get residual money from anyone still buying the Star Control games, which is to say, basically nothing because the free version of SC2 is available (and it's great) and because SC3 was total crap and nobody would ever want it. I just pretend SC3 doesn't exist; hint: it wasn't made by the same people who made SC2.
That article even gets the description wrong of what made SC2 great: it was a total hybrid game. Part adventure, part exploration, part action battle, part resource management, part RPG. In general, such games sell poorly because it's rare to find someone who likes all of those genres and wouldn't be turned off by one of them. A strategy gamer wouldn't have liked the adventure parts. An adventure gamer wouldn't have liked the action parts. Etc.
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