Zeewolf: Oh no, oh no, oh no.
Of all the companies that could have bought Master of Orion, why did it have to be Wargaming.net that got it.
I do NOT under ANY circumstances want a F2P Master of Orion game. That would be like pissing on SimTex' grave.
As for Star Control, I would have liked it to find another home than StarDock, but at least they can probably be trusted to make something in the spirit of the originals. Even if it'll have a shitty art direction. I respect Derek Paxton a lot.
Yeah, wargaming.net and MoO do not go together....now if stardock uses GalCiv graphics instead of Elemental graphics then I think they can do a great job with Star Control. I like the spirit of Fallen Enchantress but i really dislike the graphics.
Pheace: Star Control, sweet. That's the license I would've wanted from the stuff that was up for sale. I hope and pray Stardock can do something deserving of it.
Star Control + Master of Orion seemed the most likely choices for Stardock and I guess they felt the same if that chart is to be believed. I would have thought MOO to have been their main interest though, but that may simply have been PR speak of course, no point saying the one IP you're adding was not the one you actually wanted the most :)
Well to be honest they really did not need Orion. As much as I would have liked for them to get it, they already have Galactic Civilizations which is pretty well known. Also, had Master of Magic went on the chopping block, I would believe that they would have jumped all over it, then to distance themselves from the Elemental name, but for some reason Atari refuses to sell that damn IP. They wanted to much damn money from Stardock when they tried to go after it the first time.
