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April 5th, 2006, 12:19 AM
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Re: Strategy First buys Malfador Machinations
Any speculation on what this will do to SE5 and the future of the franchise?
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Re: Strategy First buys Malfador Machinations
Rather than speculate, I am awaiting reply from the man himself. I recommend you all do the same (wait, that is).
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April 5th, 2006, 12:30 AM
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Rather than speculate, I am awaiting reply from the man himself. I recommend you all do the same (wait, that is).
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I also fired off an email, and asked Aaron if he would visit us here and explain what this means for the franchise and the future of SE games.
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Re: Strategy First buys Malfador Machinations
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Rather than speculate, I am awaiting reply from the man himself. I recommend you all do the same (wait, that is).
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April 5th, 2006, 12:35 AM
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Re: Strategy First buys Malfador Machinations
Yoda would say: The future hard to see it is…
I would say: This does not bode well for the future!
I guess I am not as optimistic as Yoda may be. I predict the first few years may be smooth sailing but after that we will all be saying our final goodbyes to each other as the game falls into the gutters.
I have been wrong more than once in my life and I hope this is one of those times.
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Re: Strategy First buys Malfador Machinations
Even if the franchise dies, it doesn't mean that this forum of these people will go their separate ways. Look already, the OT posts probably outnumber the on topic posts!
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Re: Strategy First buys Malfador Machinations
Eh, it probably means he just wants to retire and either there won't be an SE6 or it will suck horribly...  But really, did we expect him to keep working on Space Empires this long? I was a bit surprised even to hear the official announcement of SE5 
Still, I fear that Strategy First might be about to "Crisium" Malfador - i.e. buy out SE5 and then just drop any plans to publish it, much as happened to Crisium's Stars! Supernova...  It makes absolutely no business sense, though, unless they're developing something of their own which might compete with SE5... in which case we might just be in for a treat rather than a disappointment... you never know...
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Still, I fear that Strategy First might be about to "Crisium" Malfador - i.e. buy out SE5 and then just drop any plans to publish it, much as happened to Crisium's Stars! Supernova... It makes absolutely no business sense, though, unless they're developing something of their own which might compete with SE5... in which case we might just be in for a treat rather than a disappointment... you never know...
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You can add the paper back slash board game StarFire to that list. Same deal as you describe; bought the rights than introduced a competing game and killed the old version. In the case of the new version it was a massive disappointment!
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April 5th, 2006, 01:09 AM
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Re: Strategy First buys Malfador Machinations
SE:V is getting close to being ready for release so I doubt that would happen. I guess I'm just nervous about the loss of our influence on future patches/titles losing our direct line to Aaron. And the potential that the title might be controlled by someone who isn't familiar with the series.
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Re: Strategy First buys Malfador Machinations
Personally I think after SE5, the franchise will have run its course... I mean, what else can you do with it, make a FPS game out of it?  The only thing left to do is to iteratively improve the game, and while I haven't seen SE5, if it's as good as I think it will be, I think there's not much room for improvement 
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