I will be blunt here:
First, I like your work and your attempt at recreating a game you love. I was a fan of the original PSO.
That being said, I will get down to my bluntness with some experience working with video game modding, Modelling, Texturing, and Programming (Have several completed projects as a mapper under my name)....
Recreating an original game seems nice at first until you realize the truth of one thing... The original game already exists! This means trying to recreate an original game to enhance the graphics, revive it, and make it more free to mod does not change the fact that its a recreation. All of this would be great and amazing if you could push a button, ask for that Hyperbolic Time Chamber from Dragonball Z, stay there for five years (which would be five days our time) and there you go... you have your game..
But life is not like that.
Time moves forward...not backwards.
There are four open source projects I have been part of. Three of these projects were completed and they revolved around the same theme... "Take an old game and recreate it" all in the sparetime of people....
In fact, there was a company...
ID Software (who makes Quake)
who's fanbase bitched and complained to make a Quake 3 Multiplayer Revision...
and that is EXACTLY what they did in Quake 4 Multiplayer...
and that did not survive...
However, I will tell you what survived...
There was a group of players who wanted to revive one of their favorite MMOs.
Of course, reviving such a game would take a ton of work.
However, they got the people to do it and a point came when they were given a "cease and desist" order.
Depressed, and Confused... thinking their revival was doomed.
They did something totally different!
They launched their own independent company and since they used a game engine that is licensed out and not owned by the company that sent the 'cease and desist' order, they actually said "Fine! We will stop" and the following week they changed their plan to revive the game and chose to create an all new game (using the same assets they made from scratch) and change everything for themselves.
This caused a community filled with people who liked the original game, who were fed up about the original game's problems in-game and lack of customer support to seek out this group and help them out a bit.
You see, people didn't just want a clone of a game that they liked
They wanted a BETTER GAME, not just the same game with the same bullshit, under the same group of people...
The group gained success and now they are in mmorpg.com about to release their game.
Their developers even said
"If you wish to challenge a company, don't waste time cloning their game... because they can pull the plug at anytime and have as much right to it without putting in any work as you do. Challenge them by making your own game that plays in a similar style, but is better!"
You can complete Phantasy Star Online 1 Remake...
and sure, you might attract a few people away from private servers etc...
Hell, you might have me playing as well to try things out for the fun of it all..
But in the end I know a clone is just a clone
fantastic or not..
So will everyone else...
Once again.
Your work is great, and I love it.
The whole forum can flame me to pieces...
but I only care being flamed by people who actually know their shit in this area.
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