improved player base , ideas.

posted on July 16th, 2011, 9:40 pm

I think Jan pretty much said it all.

Although I bet that Activision or MadDoc or whoever owns A2 would let the devs go stand alone if they asked. They certainly loose nothing by doing it; they haven't made money on A2 in what, 7+ years, neither has CBS or Paramount. Who knows they might even be willing to release the source code since it's so old - if it still exists.

Unfortunately the price of and A2 disk isn't going to drop that's basic supply/demand economics. It's a rare good which is very desirable, so yeah, people will sell it high. Unless someone starts making copies and sells them dirt cheap to increase supply.

The only other option is if the devs chose to make their own engine. But if they did that, we wouldn't see another release for five or ten years. Although there are some engine bases out there, like Unreal, but I don't know if that would suit the devs needs, and the devs self-admittedly like working with the A2 engine.

Bottom line, either potential players need to loosen or stow their moral compasses long enough to get a disk image, or the devs need to convince the powers that be to let them go stand-alone

posted on July 16th, 2011, 11:01 pm

Try the to get the mod listed on steam store would be a very good way of getting it out there. not sure if thats actually do-able tho but i think the devs should look into that.

posted on July 16th, 2011, 11:06 pm

Maybe we should launch a campaign to have A2 stock offered on Steam. I'm pretty sure a mail campaign to Paramount and Activision could be used to achieve this goal

[Tyler]

posted on July 16th, 2011, 11:15 pm

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If we can get the A2 owners to agree, Valve probably wouldn't be too opposed to using their software to distribute it. They seem to be a pretty lenient group, though you'd also need to speak to them.

posted on July 16th, 2011, 11:23 pm

Hm, I did not want to say earlier as nothing is certain, but I have been sending emails back and forth between CBS and other related parties for the past months to reach an agreement regarding Fleet Operations and potential standalone status in the future. Again, nothing is certain, but there is nothing that has been negative either. More attention may be useful - but it may not be at the same time, I am not sure.

posted on July 17th, 2011, 2:41 am

If GOG.com were to carry the game we'd probably see more new players turn up. Unfortunately they don't have it and I'm not sure they ever will. Perhaps we could flood them with requests?

posted on July 17th, 2011, 2:11 pm

Im confused, Why could the devs not allow a Armada 2 download from this cite?

posted on July 17th, 2011, 2:13 pm

Im confused, Why could the devs not allow a Armada 2 download from this cite?

cos they dont own a2, they cant give it away.

posted on July 17th, 2011, 2:27 pm

Oh I see. Would it make it quicker to get the rights/ permissions if more people emailed the owners? I feel as if the corporations don't think anything of this, which makes me feel it will never happen

posted on July 18th, 2011, 8:51 pm

Many have been trying for years to get it open source. I doubt it will ever happen.