Old player of smnc here. It was one of my favorite games at one point, and then of course uber decided to abandon it and ignore all of their players. P.A. looks cool but knowing uber, I wouldn't doubt that they will just abandon it like their other game. Also they probably don't even deserve my money after abandoning a loyal player/customer but who knows.
As long as Planetary Annihilation has a user base and can generate money, it will be supported. That's pretty much a direct quote from Jon Mavor himself.
Exactly. I honestly wish they would do SOMETHING with SMNC as a player of it. I thought it noble if it would be given open source to public, invested in a kickstarter, perhaps given to the public in a kickstarter... even down the line re-established using the publicity of PA. Right now, they needed a new source of funding to even get into a horizontal field of game development. There is no shame in that, they had an idea laid out on the table. They will finish that idea up to release, and they will continue to put into it what they get out of it as long as the playerbase is there to support it back, just like they did with SMNC. They made that game free and supported it struggling to do anything to make it wide amongst players. What more could they do for SMNC? What would you do or would you have done? I could probably find quotes from you supporting "open queues" and "separate queues" depending on the month, along with other varying suggestions for promoting or balancing it. Do those ideas really help the game? Some of them were tried for sure. PS: Have you seen the Uber Christmas Card? It has a main theme, for sure, but it appears they didn't forget about SMNC...
And pretty much the story for every video game. Also MNC 2 is rumored. Just search the SMNC forums for the thread...
In Uber's case, they aren't even like EA or Activision about it. They won't kill it in it's sleep via suffocation with it's own pillow portraying a Disney-liscensed character. Like they did C&C Renegade. Because EA felt it would compete too much with Battlefield. Which shouldn't had mattered to them, but they just felt the need to kill that morning, so they did it. Ever since then, I felt the need to kill too. I have hated most every EA product since. At least Uber didn't kill off SMNC, didn't officially denounce any more work ever on it, didn't lie about any of it. They pretty much did all they could, and they are probably still thinking what is best for it. Sometimes nothing is the best answer, like personally I would say not posting this topic here would have been a better Course-Of-Action than posting this topic here was. That nothing would have been better than this something. Other possibilities would have been posting it in a more proper subforum. Perhaps the best COA for SMNC is for Uber to not do anything right now, then rewrite it on a better engine with no bugs and higher publicity later on.
