Board Thread:Announcements/@comment-16922870-20170304215241/@comment-24146651-20170321185751

8100DSTAR wrote: I'm no developer, but I think it could have been so beneficial to FISHLABS if they just ported GoF2 Full HD to the PC in full. What it currently (and most likely will be forever) is an unfinished port, with no add-ons. If they focused on that, promoted that on Steam, heck, even moved to consoles - they could be on a roll.

You have a very good point there. But take this into account;

As someone who owns Galaxy on Fire 2 Full HD on the Mac I can say with confidence that it is definitely a full version, no laziness detected.

FISHLABS actually does have a game being promoted on Steam right now; Everspace. (It's on sale right now, actually.) This could have very well been another reason the port was abandoned. Whether it came before or after the bankruptcy is unknown to me, but I do know that it looks a hell of a lot more like the CGI trailer of Galaxy on Fire 3.

The console front would have been a tough one, with a lot of the console franchise starting to falter to PC Gamers (with the exception of the Nintendo DS series), that wouldn't have gotten as good a return as you think.

I don't know what the Android port is like, but I'll take your word for it.

8100DSTAR wrote: PC and console gamers resent the idea of iAPs, so FL could have sold GoF for, say 20 quid and made a fortune, with no microtransactions in sight. Same with 3.

With Galaxy on Fire being their only successful venture I highly doubt they would have sold it to anyone. I have honestly never heard of a case where someone has sold two apps and then developed the third in the same franchise.

Not to mention that even if that was a thing and FISHLABS made that much by selling GoF2, their earnings would come to a standstill as they are now going to whoever bought it. This leaves them with very limited time to develop GoF3 with the money they received - not a risk I would take.

EDIT: Actually, scratch that. I just remembered that all GoF games run on FISHLABS' patented Abyss Engine, which I don't think they woukd ever give to another company, directly or indirectly.

NiveliKing My Wall 18:57, March 21, 2017 (UTC)