Firefall developer Red 5 Studios has notified Shacknews that it will shut down its upcoming title's beta and website for 24 hours beginning January 18 in protest of the 'Stop Online Piracy Act' (SOPA).
Calling SOPA "misguided legislation," Red 5 Studios CEO Mark Kern said the proposed bill would hurt smaller game companies, "who will not have the legal resources or lobbying presence to protect themselves from unwarranted shutdown."
I (Robin Ek, TGG) am very sad to inform you all that Red 5 Studio's have decided to close down their "sci-fi F2P MMO/Open world game "Firefall". Here's what's known for now.
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This is sad news, because I always felt there was great potential with this game but it never got to where it could be.
Plus this was the only game to ever use the Project Offset engine too. Project Offset never came out so getting to see what it could do was the closest we ever got because of this game.
We're rounding up some games like Firefall, a great concept that simply was not executed as well as we hoped. Maybe these other worlds will hit the spot!
I use to love MMO's but now i can't stand them. I hope they can change the grinding and make a more engaging gameplay style.
Mark Kern, the ex-CEO of Red 5 and one of the developers behind the PC game Firefall, has stirred up a hornets nest on Reddit over the past few days. In response to his remarks regarding his interest in purchasing Firefall if the MMO fails, Robert Grosso at TechRaptor conducted a lengthy interview with Kern regarding his comments and other misconceptions behind the Firefall controversy. The interview, along with the news story, is transcribed here.
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meh, just gives them an excuse to work on it more...
i'm not going to clean my room today in protest of sopa
Websites should shut down for a day in protest. Including Facebook and all other forms of communication on the internet. Highly doubt it would ever happen but still. It'd be nice to show what it would be like without the internet anymore. They have no right to censor it. cu**s
This isn't really going to do anything, though. You'd need the big time devs/pubs protesting to make a real impact, but a lot of those guys SUPPORT the bill.