I don't quite agree with you Chips. My belief is that the fact he didn't just say: "It was discontinued" or "There will be no sequel to Freelancer in the near future", is due to his intent of injecting a bit of ambiguity. Leaving the decision of wether or not the game is being developed up to the beholder. Consequently, speaking much but saying nothing . The hope is that people would interpet the response in the way you have interpeted it, Chips, namely negatively. Thus trying to safeguard from rumors based upon substancial evidence, from getting out of hand. Annoying as they are, they have a tendancy of turning into facts. I'm sure some of you can remember the long period between announcement and release of Freelancer and the thereby resulting public pressure the team was subjected to. Further, after release, the game was said to -as a result- have been hyped and claimed not to have lived up to expectations etc. It is only logical that DA is trying to avoid yet another such incident.


My personal experience has been that people tend speak in riddles if they have something to hide.


P.S.
By the way Chips, why are you resolute on playing the antagonist on the subject? I might be going out on a limb, but it seems you know something us rabble do not. Being a member of the TLR staff and a modder, you are very likely to collaborate with DA on various subjects concerning Fl(being a member of TLR suffices). I surmise this puts you and your colleagues as first choice to "informally" know of a sequel...and to quench any founded speculation of "outsiders" within reasonable reach

He has a point there -- and chips, why did you feel the need to assume blacktachyon was creating an elaborate fraud, when you didn't know either way? I think it would have been more polite to at least give some evidence for your opinion, instead of merely speculating what could have happened.

Innocent until proven guilty (to coin a phrase)

*dredges up old thread*
"My personal experience has been that people tend speak in riddles if they have something to hide."

Same here.

My guess is if FL2 was in development and someone was going to say something they would have done it at E3.

Here's what I think: there was a plan for F2. HOWEVER Freelancer is just one of those games just waiting to be modded: as most of us have done or are doing.
Therefore they decided that since people were just making so many new things, tha6t there was no need for an F2.

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Dude, you need to read and think about others posts before making comments upon them. If you read the whole thing, you would have seen the movement. For one, someone posts why they believe. We post that its very very tenuous at best, since no thread exists to prove this at all anymore. Then posting continued trying to persuade everyone. I pointed out that he said "make your own mind up" and then point out that he is not letting anyone do that, but argueing why its true.....giving reasons as to how it can be true. So, like my post STATED, its also possible that it was all a big load of cobblers - but i also said how HIGHLY unlikely it was to be true, and then say let everyone make their own minds up instead....

Once again, we have people who don't read things properly, make a comment about it, without actually stopping to consider what i posted. Ergo, if you had, you would have actually realised what i was saying was NOT an accusation about making the whole thing up! *sigh*