Adios, Red Faction

[leirbag]

Poor sales of Red Faction: Armageddon this year means the end of the franchise, publisher THQ said in a conference call today.

Brian Farrell, the THQ chief executive, told investors that "we do not intend to carry forward with that franchise in any meaningful way."

Volition, the studio developing the series, has now been reassigned to Guillermo del Toro's inSane game project, a survival horror game.

Link ChevronTHQ Abandons Red Faction Franchise [Eurogamer]

[Phrix889]

This is like 2 years old news.

[leirbag]

jejeje I read today....but is a bad old news

[Phrix889]

Yeah it's a shame, but hopefully someone else will buy the rights to the Red Faction games and release a sequel one day.

[leirbag]

The worst of all is that the company who bought violintion say nothig about that...

[swenor]

leirbag
Let them sort out all the legal issues, new employees and new problems. Once they know who their newly acquired developer is they can make decisions about new games.

[Dryshift>Ops]

Ye this news is very old and still bad. People who worked with red faction series have great talent. I very love game engine from guerrilla and armageddon and multiplayer with this just not some copy from another game. I mean its really something new for 3rd person games. I very hope that red faction will be return

[VeGas GhOst]

does this mean the online servers are dead?

[Phrix889]

Originally posted by VeGas GhOst:

does this mean the online servers are dead?

No, the multiplayer uses Games for Windows Live so it wont be shut down until/if Microsoft decide to shut down Games for Windows Live.

Also I edited your post by accident, thought I clicked reply. Sorry.

[Anderson]

*Update

"On December 19, 2012, THQ filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy leading to an auction of THQ's properties that was held on January 22, 2013. While developer Volition, Inc. was picked up by Deep Silver along with Saints Row, Red Faction was not a part of the transaction. The IP is currently still included in the chapter 11 case making for an uncertain future of the franchise."

- Taken from Wikipedia.

[RageMojo]

Originally posted by Anderson:

*Update

"On December 19, 2012, THQ filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy leading to an auction of THQ's properties that was held on January 22, 2013. While developer Volition, Inc. was picked up by Deep Silver along with Saints Row, Red Faction was not a part of the transaction. The IP is currently still included in the chapter 11 case making for an uncertain future of the franchise."

- Taken from Wikipedia.

That isnt a bad thing necissarily. It means it isnt locked to Volition or Deep Silver and can be picked up by anyone. Unfortunately it is probably going to take someone who liked the franchise.

If i win powerball i promise to buy it and produce a FPS reboot of RF1 and a sequel to RF:G.

[Anderson]

Originally posted by RageMojo:

Originally posted by Anderson:

*Update

"On December 19, 2012, THQ filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy leading to an auction of THQ's properties that was held on January 22, 2013. While developer Volition, Inc. was picked up by Deep Silver along with Saints Row, Red Faction was not a part of the transaction. The IP is currently still included in the chapter 11 case making for an uncertain future of the franchise."

- Taken from Wikipedia.

That isnt a bad thing necissarily. It means it isnt locked to Volition or Deep Silver and can be picked up by anyone. Unfortunately it is probably going to take someone who liked the franchise.

If i win powerball i promise to buy it and produce a FPS reboot of RF1 and a sequel to RF:G.

I would make the socialistc revolution more powerful as a theme, topic and subject in the game's story.

[RageMojo]

Bids for Red Faction and Homeworld are due by April 15th. We may find out about RF's fate before June 2013.

[Anderson]

New THQ sale https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

[HastelavistaBABY]

well i know this is old news but the problem is that i and everyone who knows these series loves them

my point is that even tho the story of red faction arma was good the things beside it were pretty boring infestation mode was just a boring copy of halo and shooting aliens isnt really my thing anyway they should had know better and made something similair to red faction guerilla and red faction 1

[Anderson]

Well, maybe they thought that this is what attracts the audience.
Anyway the industry is going through some period when publishers would only like to cash-in on things at times. So we will see a lot of stupid moves here and there.