Wikipedia.org needs help w/ WC
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Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
Case in point: the other day some dumbass added a 'cancelled games' section to the Wing Commander page.
Now, sure, great - there've been dozens of cancelled Wing Commander projects over the years, you could write an interesting article about that. Except in this case, it ended up being three 'stubs', for Privateer 3, Privateer Online and 'Wing Commander 6: Strike Team'... and a paragraph bitching about how these titles were cancelled because the movie didn't perform well.
... except Privateer 3 and Strike Team were cancelled long before the movie came out, and the major Wing Commander Online project people are familiar with wasn't even *started* until afterwards.
So instead of a web site listing all the fascinating cancelled projects (including completed games! Prophecy DVD, Wing Commander AGA, Wing Commander 3 for the Saturn, Wing Commander 2 SNES! Amazing stuff!) you have some e-dork being an asshole because he didn't like the Wing Commander movie.
Now, sure, great - there've been dozens of cancelled Wing Commander projects over the years, you could write an interesting article about that. Except in this case, it ended up being three 'stubs', for Privateer 3, Privateer Online and 'Wing Commander 6: Strike Team'... and a paragraph bitching about how these titles were cancelled because the movie didn't perform well.
... except Privateer 3 and Strike Team were cancelled long before the movie came out, and the major Wing Commander Online project people are familiar with wasn't even *started* until afterwards.
So instead of a web site listing all the fascinating cancelled projects (including completed games! Prophecy DVD, Wing Commander AGA, Wing Commander 3 for the Saturn, Wing Commander 2 SNES! Amazing stuff!) you have some e-dork being an asshole because he didn't like the Wing Commander movie.
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
Yes, Strike Team was one of the immediate post-Secret Ops projects.
I don't think it was at any serious stage when it was cancelled, but it is one of the better known projects because Electronic Arts UK listed it in an advertising booklet about future releases.
Strike Team was cancelled in late 1998 -- between a time when I visited Origin and took a picture of a 'Strike Team' sign and when I got back to read an e-mail from Boomer asking me not to post that since the project was dead.
Wing Commander AGA was an improved Amiga port of the original Wing Commander (for the A1200) that was completed but not released. A Wing Commander 2 Amiga port died somewhere on the vine, too.
I don't think it was at any serious stage when it was cancelled, but it is one of the better known projects because Electronic Arts UK listed it in an advertising booklet about future releases.
Strike Team was cancelled in late 1998 -- between a time when I visited Origin and took a picture of a 'Strike Team' sign and when I got back to read an e-mail from Boomer asking me not to post that since the project was dead.
Wing Commander AGA was an improved Amiga port of the original Wing Commander (for the A1200) that was completed but not released. A Wing Commander 2 Amiga port died somewhere on the vine, too.
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
The last several attempts have all involved going back to the Kilrathi War.
I am glad people are editing WC, and the new 'about WC' project Bob McDob has coordinated is certainly much better than the old elaborate system of random ships having backstories made up for them... but it just takes one "Iceberg3k" to stupid up everything else.
Death
gh0d (Administrator)
With the drooling all over Slashdot when Privateer Remake was originally released, I doubt the techie community (who seem to be the primary source for those who take Wikipedia more seriously than it deserves, IMO) is unaware of WC. Ditto how most gaming articles in magazines or on web pages inevitably draw comparisons between any new space sim games and WC.
Personally, I find the ignorance of not knowing about WC more tolerable than artificially induced ignorance caused by uninformed random idiots using what could otherwise have been a significant reference as a platform for their pontificating and ranting based solely on their own cherished misconceptions of WC.
Personally, I find the ignorance of not knowing about WC more tolerable than artificially induced ignorance caused by uninformed random idiots using what could otherwise have been a significant reference as a platform for their pontificating and ranting based solely on their own cherished misconceptions of WC.
ChrisReid
Super Soaker Collector / Administrator
Peidu said:
Yeah, you don't really have all that many people who type "Wing Commander" into Wikipedia and find their way here via that link to the CIC at the bottom. A hell of a lot more people just type it into Google and click the first link to get here.