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RebornDragon

The sooner everyone stops playing this, the sooner it will be sold to EA or something where it will get the proper funding / development / advertisement. It could have some great potential but development is unbelievably slow, especially for a P2P game. It’s sad to think where this game could be now if it was handed off to EA or a real gaming company years ago. I think it could have been and could still be amazingly popular if development wasn't so slow.

Drafell

They might buy the IP, engine and technology just to prevent another company getting it, but they wouldn't bother investing in developing it.

Look what EA did with EnB which was still a viable project when they closed it down. They aren't going to waste money developing a tile with a user base as low as DarkSpace.

EA and the other big game publishers are only interested in cash-cows and mostly generic game titles and themes.



Believe me, DS would have been shelved long ago by any commercial developer. They simply aren't interested in niche products or markets.

mrxinstall

 

I agree that the developemtn of this game is stopping it from being a game that might have a better out look. I doubt that EA or any other developer for that matter would bother with this game for more than a few reasons the main one being the actual age of the game.

The market in online games is so big now that something like this game is just going to be steam rolled by other games like Eve, World of Warcraft, and the many other that are out there.

 

crimTB

Actualy, the Development (How ever slow it may be) is right on track. I also know that Darkspace was never ment to live this long, and it was only a side project when it first started. Faustus has a life, a family, and bills to pay. Darkspace cant do all that. The only reason this version ended up so bad, was because of the unfinished Ideas of another Developer who left us. Along with a few unkown problems that came. While it may look like nothing is being done, there is. I have personaly talked with most (Faustus and Tael arent public people..) of the Developers, and I know that they are constantly working on things for the next version. A hotfix would be nice, but it isnt our Dev's style. I'm fine with our Dev's, they just need to be abit faster..

If EA where to ever touch Darkspace, I would personaly spam every email I could find of EAs with terrible and disgusting E-mails. They ruin every game they touch. =P