Homeworld IP goes to unannounced owner as Kickstarter campaign offers refunds

@Halloll The Kuun-Lan was also a lot more fragile and couldn't produce even half the output. I also loved the platform system in Homeworld 2, over the very concentric modular system for Catacylsm. Overall, the mothership system is what the series is about. Would I like a more maneuverable mothership? Certainly. Would it be nice if it had some spectacular offensive capabilities or even super-defensive capabilities (i.e., Siege Cannons and Large Force Barriers)? Definitely.

Will we get a Homeworld 3 that incorporates any of this? I'm not even sure we're going to get a Homeworld 3.

@Halloll Or Pride of Hiigara but beefed up, with some long range cannon/s for gods sake or some nice abilities like shield for friendly forces or power increases, some real mothership purpose not just purely as simple carrier with pathetic pew pew machine guns. Such a massive ship c'mon.

@PETERAKO My day was fine.. i spent part of it being amazed that someone called Company of Heroes 2 casual F2P social nonsense.. (Or at least i think thats what i read?)

@Kawaii_Uguu The IP was purchased by an undisclosed buyer, which means exactly that. Someone else now owns the rights to the Homeworld trademark (presumably a publisher). That MAY mean they purchased it with the intention of funding and marketing Homeworld 3; or it may mean they acquired it as a 'strategic' investment (collecting rents - however small - off previous Homeworld titles; turning it into a mobile franchise; or simply to have possession of the IP in the event they felt like a later project could be profitable).

It's difficult to say, because neither the buyer nor the sum was disclosed. It beat a kickstarter campaign, but that doesn't necessarily mean an enormous amount of money changed hands. For all we know, whoever bought it may have just been interested in killing the franchise because it could have competed with another title they're funding.

So yeah, in a nutshell, it's in limbo until we hear a) who bought it; b) for how much; and c) what their intentions with the IP are.

@LesserAngel Sega doesn't exactly have great modern games under their belt. And most of the development houses under Sega that do make great games have no experience what-so-ever with a game like Homeworld. Not too mention Sega has a history of shelving good ideas. The innovative ones were brushed over (anyone remember Chrome Hounds' multiplayer?) numerous times. So no, if Sega did acquire the IP to Homeworld, we are doomed.

@vadagar1 Well if it does maybe you should have a nice lil chat with Makaan...im pretty sure he learned from his mistakes ;)

@vadagar1 :)

@tweezzzy Actually SimCity and X-Com are great games. SimCity is crap because of it's online-only service. Other then that's it's a fantastic game that all SimCity fans would love.

Diablo 3... yeah... moving on.

X-Com is also fantastic for what it does and how it does that in relation to other games of similar genre. There's a reason it's critically acclaimed and sells so well.

@tweezzzy

While I would often agree with you, this is probably one of the only franchises I believe that deserves a modern day sequel. Reboot.... not so much but, a sequel sure.

By the way there is a spiritual successor to Homeworld already in the works called Hardware.

@tweezzzy Diablo 3 isn't so bad either. And I love X-com.

@Tweezzzy since when was Xcom terrible?

@Ledah

What is there to be sad about? Someone now owns the Homeworld IP and it is not a bunch of under qualified people that were going to turn the franchise into a mobile piece of s***. Maybe relic got the keys to the kingdom back.... maybe Creative Assembly.... maybe these companies or others that are actually qualified to make a strategy game worthy of the Homeworld name.

@loafofgame Actually, looking back at Homeworld 2, it still has very decent visuals even with today's standards. With some proper graphic mods, im sure it can compete with current generation space games.