fluffy_banana wrote:
It's rather hard to believe the line that Stardock wasn't either pushing to include elements from the old series or putting some kind of pressure on Paul and Fred, if P&F felt their only recourse was legal action.
They weren't. Stardock's constant position for a long time (like since 2014 at least) has been that they're doing an entirely separate universe and not messing with the SC2 continuity at all, even when people complained that they should be using the Ur-quan and Yehat.
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It seems very odd to say "25 years is too long a gap" and then nonetheless name your game after a series you don't think anyone remembers.
Lots of people have played Star Control or have at least heard about it, but very few remember the details of the story outside of a couple broad strokes. Us superfans who know every plot point by heart are a very small minority.
I'm afraid there's a big misunderstanding here. The legal matters are very complicated and FF/PR's position is that they completely own everything from SC2 entirely except the name. Stardock says FF/PR own the universe, but the license to make things with it belonged to Accolade, carried over to Atari and Stardock, and has never expired. However, Stardock seems to
want to relinquish all rights to the Ur-quan universe and sign it over to FF/PR officially, so the end result would be the same. I hope they can work it out quickly and I don't think it should have gone public.