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Posted October 19, 2017
Counting stars.


Star Control: Origins is now available for pre-order, DRM-free on GOG.com.
This is a sci-fi action/adventure with RPG elements and a new start for the beloved series. While investigating a far away distress signal upon Earth's first interstellar starship, you stumble upon this procedurally created galaxy, full of unknown alien races. A plot is being hatched, threatening to throw the entire galaxy into disarray, but your battle-readiness and thorough exploration might just avert it.

Pre-order and gain access to next month's Super-Melee beta.

Get the entire series in a Bundle, including Star Control: The Ur-Quan Masters and Star Control: The Kessari Quadrant.
Post edited October 19, 2017 by maladr0Id
Posted October 20, 2017
As with previous recent Stardock games, development was funded with a Steam-only "Founder's Edition" that includes future DLC - which means you can expect many overpriced low-effort DLC packs to be released to appease the founders.

And no, I'm not a hater: I loved GC2 and was very excited when Stardock brought its newer games to GOG. After experiencing their current business model with GC3 and OTC, I'm no longer a fan.

Other things to note are their habit of binding features to Steam - mods for GC3, custom matchmaking in OTC - and their extreme preferential pricing for Steam customers - at one point, it cost literally several times as much to buy the same content on GOG - not because of a sale but due to exclusive, deeply-discounted bundles offered only on Steam.
Posted October 20, 2017
I loved Star Control II, but NOPE.

No Toys For Bob, no interest.
Posted October 20, 2017
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Wishbone: I'm sorry, but when were the titles of Star Control 2&3 retroactively changed??? And renaming SC2 to "The Ur-Quan Masters", when the free (and superior) version has been known by that name for years is misleading at best :-(
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Serren: Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters is the original full title of the second game in the series. That is where the open source project took its name from.

I'm guessing the change to the travesty known as Star Control 3 is to disassociate it as a direct sequel to SC2 now that Toys for Bob are finally working on a true sequel.
That's as may be, but the open source project has always been known simply as "The Ur-Quan Masters" because Activision owned the "Star Control" name, while Toys For Bob owned the actual game content, but the GOG version used to be called "Star Control 1 & 2", because that's what it was. Renaming it to "Star Control: The Ur-Quan Masters" (notice, no numeral in the title anymore) while simultaneously renaming SC3 and removing the numeral from that title as well seems designed to create as much confusion as possible.
Posted October 20, 2017
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GOG.com: Get the entire series in a Bundle, including Star Control: The Ur-Quan Masters and Star Control: The Kessari Quadrant.
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Wishbone: I'm sorry, but when were the titles of Star Control 2&3 retroactively changed??? And renaming SC2 to "The Ur-Quan Masters", when the free (and superior) version has been known by that name for years is misleading at best :-(
I'm wondering if Stardock is planning on entering into a trademark coexistence agreement with Toys for Bob. The title of each game would have to be differentiated by more than a number - so a full title would make sense. It would allow Toys for Bob to use Star Control in their title. Perhaps Stardock is exploring the idea.

It would be very nice of Stardock to do so. The problem that arises is thar most agreements of that sort are for products using the same name in different regions. There are a lot of legal issues that need to be sorted out in regards to trademark law regarding that so I don't know if anything will come of that.

Well, if Toys for Bob goes for the title Star Control: Ghosts of the Precursors we'll know why the other games were renamed. It's all speculation until that point.
Posted October 20, 2017
Another "wacky" game that looks like a Pixar movie. :/
Posted October 20, 2017
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mikebert: Why does a DRM-free single-player game require a broadband internet connection to play?
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pshaw01: One aspect of the game (Super Melee Battle) has online multiplayer. But you don't need internet to enjoy the rest of the game.
Does it have local multiplayer too? Either single screen or LAN?
Posted October 20, 2017
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pshaw01: One aspect of the game (Super Melee Battle) has online multiplayer. But you don't need internet to enjoy the rest of the game.
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SirPrimalform: Does it have local multiplayer too? Either single screen or LAN?
We are planning on supporting local MP on a single screen.
Posted October 20, 2017
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SirPrimalform: Does it have local multiplayer too? Either single screen or LAN?
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pshaw01: We are planning on supporting local MP on a single screen.
Well that's good news, thanks for the quick reply. Still I'm not convinced the game belongs out of the hands of Toys For Bob, but never mind.
Posted October 20, 2017
Star Control: The Stardock Guinea Pig Experiment .
Posted October 20, 2017
Sorry, but very awful, disgusting graphics!

The Star Control-series and the remake "The Ur-Quan Masters" were great games.

I'm desperately disappointed that "Star Control: Origins" uses this cheap, mainstream-disney 3D-cartoon style graphics for under 12-years old children! (ironie start) Is a 3D-Barbie-avatar with pony and bling bling included? (ironie end)

I like handdrawn illustrations and cartoons for grownups/above 12 years old children, but a game with this mainstream, low budget children-graphics is aweful. I will never buy a game with this kind of graphics! ("Master of Orion 4 - Conquer the Stars" and "Sorcerer King" were the last games with this aweful kind of graphics-style that i bought.)
Posted October 20, 2017
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mikebert: Why does a DRM-free single-player game require a broadband internet connection to play?
For Internet multiplayer. There's no copy protection whatsoever.
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wizisi2k: the weak also remember the fans. Yes elemental was a huge flop but rather than turn their backs on customers, they did something positive. People who kept that game and didn't refund got Fallen Enchantress and Legendary Heroes for the low, low price of $0.00
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Pheace: While this was cute, it was announced in 2012 when FE released and only counted for the people who had *preordered* Elemental, back before oct 2010. Anyone who had bought it in between just got Elemental.

Between Elemental and the completely out of nowhere selling off of Impulse their idealised self proclaimed Gamer's Bill of Rights suddenly took a major reputation hit back then.
That is not actually true.

Everyone who pre-ordered Elemental or bought Elemental within 90 days of its original release received a free copy of Fallen Enchantress. And everyone who pre-ordered Elemental or bought it within 30 days of its release got Fallen Enchantress and Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes.

In addition, Elemental was actively supported and improved for a long time after release and can still be downloaded today by owners at http://download.stardock.com.

Elemental was a tragedy but it wasn't a result of malice but rather a bridge too far.
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GOG.com: Get the entire series in a Bundle, including Star Control: The Ur-Quan Masters and Star Control: The Kessari Quadrant.
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Wishbone: I'm sorry, but when were the titles of Star Control 2&3 retroactively changed??? And renaming SC2 to "The Ur-Quan Masters", when the free (and superior) version has been known by that name for years is misleading at best :-(
This was done so that new players wouldn't think of Star Control 3 as a direct sequel to Star Control 2 since Paul and Fred are trying to make a spiritual successor to the Ur-Quan Masters.
Post edited October 20, 2017 by draginol
Posted October 20, 2017
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draginol: That is not actually true.

Everyone who pre-ordered Elemental or bought Elemental within 90 days of its original release received a free copy of Fallen Enchantress. And everyone who pre-ordered Elemental or bought it within 30 days of its release got Fallen Enchantress and Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes.

In addition, Elemental was actively supported and improved for a long time after release and can still be downloaded today by owners at http://download.stardock.com.
Do you have a link to this? Because the only links I can find to this including posts by Stardock themselves contradict this.
Posted October 20, 2017
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draginol: That is not actually true.

Everyone who pre-ordered Elemental or bought Elemental within 90 days of its original release received a free copy of Fallen Enchantress. And everyone who pre-ordered Elemental or bought it within 30 days of its release got Fallen Enchantress and Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes.

In addition, Elemental was actively supported and improved for a long time after release and can still be downloaded today by owners at http://download.stardock.com.
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Pheace: Do you have a link to this? Because the only links I can find to this including posts by Stardock themselves contradict this.
https://www.pcgamesn.com/stardock-makes-fallen-enchantress-free-elemental-owners

Or wikipedia:
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemental:_Fallen_Enchantress]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemental:_Fallen_Enchantress[/url]

Or Escapist:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/122087-Why-Stardock-Is-Still-Working-on-Fallen-Enchantress#&gid=gallery_1046&pid=1

I am pretty sure this is still in effect (that someone who bought Elemental can still get a free download of Fallen Enchantress). It didn't require the user even apply. The games were added to their account. The user just has to go to http://download.stardock.com and the games should appear right there.
Post edited October 20, 2017 by draginol
Posted October 20, 2017
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Wishbone: I'm sorry, but when were the titles of Star Control 2&3 retroactively changed??? And renaming SC2 to "The Ur-Quan Masters", when the free (and superior) version has been known by that name for years is misleading at best :-(
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draginol: This was done so that new players wouldn't think of Star Control 3 as a direct sequel to Star Control 2 since Paul and Fred are trying to make a spiritual successor to the Ur-Quan Masters.
Link? And it also means that new players can't tell which order the games were in, chronologically. As such, they might as well think Paul and Fred's project are a sequel to SC3.
Posted October 20, 2017
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Pheace: Do you have a link to this? Because the only links I can find to this including posts by Stardock themselves contradict this.
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draginol: https://www.pcgamesn.com/stardock-makes-fallen-enchantress-free-elemental-owners

Or wikipedia:
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemental:_Fallen_Enchantress]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemental:_Fallen_Enchantress[/url]

Or Escapist:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/122087-Why-Stardock-Is-Still-Working-on-Fallen-Enchantress#&gid=gallery_1046&pid=1

I am pretty sure this is still in effect (that someone who bought Elemental can still get a free download of Fallen Enchantress). It didn't require the user even apply. The games were added to their account. The user just has to go to http://download.stardock.com and the games should appear right there.
Thanks, got confused with people having bought FE only getting half price on LH I think
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