Yeah those old I-Play Boards were really rough. And just spending a night in the M-Player lobby could really be and experience!
But Im glad to see you drop by Harry. Dont mind this crowd. They are just a litt;e snake bitten by the recent events in the last 2 years, with SFC3 (which 90% of this community didnt want), Activisions failure to make good games, and now with the loss of our game developer who supported us through all these tough times, its been pretty hard to maintain a good attitude.
As you know most Star Trek people, are kinda of in their own class. One of the reasons the SFC series did as well as it did, was the fact that it reached out to a little more intellectual crowd and a little older crowd, since it was based on a 20 year old board game. Hence the reason most of us are still here. (and dont go there guys, I know Im and old fart!).
I just hope that you understand that when you are making a Star Trek game, it has to be more than just about the money, especially with Star Trek fans. The game has to be intellectually stimulating, have long term playability and modability, and the ability to span a vast amount of players age, in order to cover the 30 years that Star Trek as been around.
This in my humble opinion, is why SFC3 failed to do as well as it could have. The decision was made to move it to TNG, and to "dumb" the game down to make it appeal to a wider audience. Although this made good business sense from a marketing point of view, it neglected a large part of the player base, that was actually looking for a more advanced game, and what most of the community here was looking for, which was a game that spanned from the TOS era to the TNG era and beyond, but they still wanted the complexity that the original SFC series gave to them.
I would say 95% of the players here that owned EAW and OP, bought SFC3, and might have played it once, but most are using it for a drink coaster now. They bought it to support Taldren, in hoping that we would get SFC4 or Galaxies at War. Now that is probably not a possibility ever. And yet we still hang in here playing a 4 year old game and enjoying it every night. Sure we might play some other games for a bit, but we always come back to the game that we love and cherish like no other.
So dont take things personally here! We are all just a little bitter now. The only thing that is keeping us going is the possible release of the source code for EAW and OP, so that we might be able to get what we all wanted, and that was SFC4-Galaxies at War.
We do look forward to your comments and discussion involving future Star Trek gaming. So just hang out and have some fun with us, and keep us informed when you can!
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