Quote Originally Posted by Bolivar View Post
Hahaha, who's the jerk who offered to buy it? Are you talking about Khedrin Gonzalez?

I understand why it would be pretty crappy, but Illfonic is a small company and purchasing an existing IP for your first serious project is kind of a safe and good way to go. As far as promises back to the community, that's kind of dumb, they shouldn't have done anything like that which they couldn't back up.

Maybe I'll check out Xonotic.
Yeah that was his name. He didn't interact very well with the community and that's the crux of the whole problem. It wouldn't have been as big of a deal had there been more interaction, but Illfonic just swooped in, announced This Is Happening, made some vague promises to make good with the community that they never fleshed out, and then disappeared until the game came out having almost nothing to do with the brand that the community originally put together aside from the name and being an arena shooter. A lot of people put a lot of time into it as a hobby with iirc no real acknowledgment for their effort for the 6ish years that Nexuiz was developed as an open source project. It was a really crap deal, though I think the fork reinvigorated the community a lot.