W00t! Thank god Interplay has gone under! Now they have to sell all their licences! One important one, which many people are thankful for, is the Freespace franchise. Could it be said, that after years of anxiousness, questions, and anticipation, that there may be a Freespace 3 soon to be in development? Well, one major game developer decided that the rights to freespace would belong to him, because of the relationship he has with Interplay, as well as his love for the FS series. This "one man team" is none other than...
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Derek Smart.
MOTHERFUCKER!! God dammit, why the fuck to all the good titles have to go to the wrong people? Apparently, Derek Smart himself wants to take over the Freespace franchise, do what he wants with it, and put Freespace 3 out on the market.
http://forums.avault.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=005485
Sure at first it seems innocent enough, but when the members of the only FS2 community left (Hard Light Productions, a VERY major community of content designers, as well as coders for the FS2 source code) show up to advise him against it, all hell breaks loose. Now I know why the guy is known as a complete asshole. Look in the many pages in this thread involving all kinds of slander and flames coming from both sides of the war, which are the FS community vs Smart and his lackeys. The funniest part, I believe, is when Smart threatens legal action against HLP for their Ferrium Project (new space sim engine, designed for the major purpose of a port of FS2 to a newer engine).
That thread is a good read, as well as a good laugh. Apparently the thread closed because it turned into a nuclear bomb war, however it was the largest growing thread in Adrenaline Vault's history. Here's the current thread that is quite a bit more civil.
http://forums.avault.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=005487
Anyway, at the very same time, HLP is having their own thread about the situation. It started a while after Smart made his community announcement to avault. It has also been a flame war, but it only lasted for a short time, because Smart didnt have the balls to debate it in their turf.
http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/showthread.php?threadid=25162
While you're there, be sure to check out the whole of their forums, just to see what they've been doing for the past 2 years with the code. You can see then why they'd be a much better license holder for the freespace franchise, and why Smart should be shot dead for calling that place a "cesspit" and full of weak people.
Good god, motherfucker. This whole thing stinks real bad.
EDIT: Everybody, everywhere, posts this hillarious history of Derek Smart. I may as well do the same. http://www.werewolves.org/~follies/
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Derek Smart.
MOTHERFUCKER!! God dammit, why the fuck to all the good titles have to go to the wrong people? Apparently, Derek Smart himself wants to take over the Freespace franchise, do what he wants with it, and put Freespace 3 out on the market.
http://forums.avault.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=005485
Sure at first it seems innocent enough, but when the members of the only FS2 community left (Hard Light Productions, a VERY major community of content designers, as well as coders for the FS2 source code) show up to advise him against it, all hell breaks loose. Now I know why the guy is known as a complete asshole. Look in the many pages in this thread involving all kinds of slander and flames coming from both sides of the war, which are the FS community vs Smart and his lackeys. The funniest part, I believe, is when Smart threatens legal action against HLP for their Ferrium Project (new space sim engine, designed for the major purpose of a port of FS2 to a newer engine).
That thread is a good read, as well as a good laugh. Apparently the thread closed because it turned into a nuclear bomb war, however it was the largest growing thread in Adrenaline Vault's history. Here's the current thread that is quite a bit more civil.
http://forums.avault.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=005487
Anyway, at the very same time, HLP is having their own thread about the situation. It started a while after Smart made his community announcement to avault. It has also been a flame war, but it only lasted for a short time, because Smart didnt have the balls to debate it in their turf.
http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/showthread.php?threadid=25162
While you're there, be sure to check out the whole of their forums, just to see what they've been doing for the past 2 years with the code. You can see then why they'd be a much better license holder for the freespace franchise, and why Smart should be shot dead for calling that place a "cesspit" and full of weak people.
Good god, motherfucker. This whole thing stinks real bad.
EDIT: Everybody, everywhere, posts this hillarious history of Derek Smart. I may as well do the same. http://www.werewolves.org/~follies/
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