Stardock is remaking Star Control!

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I just received an email from Brad Wardell about a Star Conrol remake:

Greetings!
25 years ago, I became obsessed with a game called Star Control™. My friends and I poured hours into playing it together. Two years later, Star Control 2 came out, forcing me to spend all my waking hours exploring worlds, meeting crazy aliens, and of course, saving the galaxy.
For years, I waited for another game that would combine a sandbox exploration game with a compelling story but alas, nothing has approached the heights of Star Control 2 for me.
A couple of years ago, Atari®, which had acquired Accolade, the original publishers of the Star Control series, sold us their rights to the franchise.
So here we are, nearly a quarter century later and I'm happy to let you know that we are making a new Star Control game!
Now, you might wonder when you'll be able to join us in talking about the design, the new aliens, the new worlds, and the new adventures. The answer to that is NOW.
Our Founder's Program is ready to go and we're excited to start talking about the game with our community. It is as near and dear to us as it is to many of you, so your feedback and thoughts are extremely important to me.
Because this franchise is so loved, we are looking for people who are sincerely invested in the future of these games. In order to do this, we are asking that people who would like the opportunity to join our Founder's Program fill out a survey, which you can find here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/StarC....
Please note: You need to complete the entire survey in order to be considered to join the Star Control Founder's Program!
You should join our Founder's Program if:
• You have an interest in watching the development process
• You enjoy playing games in their earliest phases and offering feedback
• You love Star Control and want to nerd out about it with the rest of us
If you have any other questions about Star Control and what direction Stardock is aiming to take with it, you can take a look at this FAQ post here. We are really excited about this project and hope that you are, too! Please remember that even if you aren't accepted to the program in the initial wave, we will continue to accept more users as we move toward release.
Star Control. It's happening. Get hyped – I know that I am.
Regards,
Brad Wardell
CEO/President
Stardock

I could have sworn we had a thread for this? Probably, though, we just talked about it in the Space Games thread.

What's in the FAQ?

Stardock? Pass.

I am torn. StarCon2 is one of my top 5 games of all time.

But Stardock.

Maq wrote:

I am torn. StarCon2 is one of my top 5 games of all time.

But Stardock.

Ditto. Of all the companies...

Yeah not buying anything from a Gator.

Not optimistic, but readying tongue attack anyway.

yeah just got this too. I'm cautiously optimistic.

I want to buy this. I want to think that I can get past the skeeviness of Stardock and their pro-Gator politics. But I haven't bought GalCiv 3 yet, and I'm really a fan of what they did with 2. I liked everything I saw about 3, but I can't control the bile that rises through my throat every time I try to buy it. This isn't exaggeration for effect. I want to buy it but my disgust literally forces me away.

I've missed something.

WizardM0de wrote:

I've missed something.

The CEO is the worst kind of human.

I mean there was an old thread here about picking one old game for a modern remake but it would be absolutely the last, and StarCon2 was top of my list. Still not gonna buy it from Stardock.

SallyNasty wrote:
WizardM0de wrote:

I've missed something.

The CEO is the worst kind of human.

Slightly less-inflammatorily, Brad Wardell (and StarDock more broadly) have been pretty staunch supporters of GamerGate. Don't want to derail this thread, but there's plenty of discussion in the P&C threads (most recently the Kool-Aid one) for folks who are interested.

I would love to buy a copy of an updated Star Control 2. I'm unwilling to do that because Brad Wardell would get some portion of my money.

(I understand other folks may draw their line elsewhere, but that's where I'm at.)

Dimmerswitch wrote:
SallyNasty wrote:
WizardM0de wrote:

I've missed something.

The CEO is the worst kind of human.

Slightly less-inflammatorily, Brad Wardell (and StarDock more broadly) have been pretty staunch supporters of GamerGate. Don't want to derail this thread, but there's plenty of discussion in the P&C threads (most recently the Kool-Aid one) for folks who are interested.

I would love to buy a copy of an updated Star Control 2. I'm unwilling to do that because Brad Wardell would get some portion of my money.

(I understand other folks may draw their line elsewhere, but that's where I'm at.)

Oh, that stuff. Ugh.

Pretty sure he is more than the CEO.. I believe he is the primary owner as well no?

WizardM0de wrote:
Dimmerswitch wrote:
SallyNasty wrote:
WizardM0de wrote:

I've missed something.

The CEO is the worst kind of human.

Slightly less-inflammatorily, Brad Wardell (and StarDock more broadly) have been pretty staunch supporters of GamerGate. Don't want to derail this thread, but there's plenty of discussion in the P&C threads (most recently the Kool-Aid one) for folks who are interested.

I would love to buy a copy of an updated Star Control 2. I'm unwilling to do that because Brad Wardell would get some portion of my money.

(I understand other folks may draw their line elsewhere, but that's where I'm at.)

Oh, that stuff. Ugh.

indeed - It gets difficult, once you start researching companies. Especially electronics, since most outsourcing that uses childlabour, suspected slavelabour or other inhuman factors in the production (Phones, computers and smaller parts of your everyday electronics). Id think those are much worse than supporting gamergate, but its easier to pin ones disgust on an accessible target.

I'm in on this as I kinda have to be, but I totally, TOTALLY get the squickiness of it for y'all.

Politics aside, I don't think Stardock has made anything worth playing in a while. I haven't checked out GalCiv3 but I wasnt a fan of 2 and I havent heard much about the 3rd. Elemental was a disaster with Fallen Enchantress being only a little better. At least it was legitimately a game and I got it for free after the Elemental debacle.

Demigod I sort of enjoyed. It was a decent MOBA before MOBAs got big. They could probably just re-release that with some success. Of their last several games I would only consider this one to be entertaining.

Sorcerer King is pretty good. *shrug*

Maybe I'm being crazy optimistic and hopeful, but I feel like these guys at least have an appreciation for the 'hallowed ground' status of this IP. I'm willing to at least watch the project.

Edwin wrote:

Stardock? Pass.

This.

Also chiming in with the disgust that it's Stardock. Between StarCon and Offworld Trading Company they're making it hard to deal with their politics.

I have to echo everyone else that when I heard of a remake I was very excited. But finding out that Stardock is heading it has made me a *Happy* *Camper*.

Saw this, got excited. Saw Wardell, deleted the email.

We can not have parties when politics always *jumping in front*.

IMAGE(http://i.imgur.com/ngy0Ujy.jpg)

Remember when the people running independent game companies weren't actively douchebags to more than half the gaming audience?

Farscry remembers.

Spoiler:

*Standard Derek Smart Exception disclaimer applies

So yeah, just like with GalCiv 3 and Offworld Trading Company (both of which I would otherwise love to purchase and play), I will be giving Star Control 2 a pass so long as Wardell uses his position as a soapbox to promote and give a pass to the toxicity of GamerGate.

Razgon wrote:
WizardM0de wrote:
Dimmerswitch wrote:
SallyNasty wrote:
WizardM0de wrote:

I've missed something.

The CEO is the worst kind of human.

Slightly less-inflammatorily, Brad Wardell (and StarDock more broadly) have been pretty staunch supporters of GamerGate. Don't want to derail this thread, but there's plenty of discussion in the P&C threads (most recently the Kool-Aid one) for folks who are interested.

I would love to buy a copy of an updated Star Control 2. I'm unwilling to do that because Brad Wardell would get some portion of my money.

(I understand other folks may draw their line elsewhere, but that's where I'm at.)

Oh, that stuff. Ugh.


indeed - It gets difficult, once you start researching companies. Especially electronics, since most outsourcing that uses childlabour, suspected slavelabour or other inhuman factors in the production (Phones, computers and smaller parts of your everyday electronics). Id think those are much worse than supporting gamergate, but its easier to pin ones disgust on an accessible target.

That's a good point, and while I find the whole gamergate thing disgusting, the outsourcing of child slave labor as a common practice by tech corporations is far worse. Yet we see far less outcry among the gaming crowd for these atrocities.

But anyway, I'm interested to see how the reboot of Star Control turns out, I loved SC1 and 2.

A separate issue to be concerned about is that the original creators aren't involved, at least last I heard. Toys for Bob is busy with Skylanders, and I'm not sure if Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III have access to the IP since the sale to Activision. (They don't have the Star Control name, but they did have enough rights to the IP to release The UrQuan Masters.)

Running Man wrote:

That's a good point, and while I find the whole gamergate thing disgusting, the outsourcing of child slave labor as a common practice by tech corporations is far worse. Yet we see far less outcry among the gaming crowd for these atrocities.

Fallacy of relative privation is fallacy.

Yeah I fail to see why one outrage somehow makes this outrage irrelevant. I could also argue the whole "China Bad" issue is such a enormous problem that no one short of living completely off the grid and growing your own food can largely avoid.

Whereas GamerGate is a much more real and solvable problem IMO.

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