"Saw that comin'." - Jayne Cobb

The One True b!X | August 01, 17:44 CET

"Well, what you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar." -- Jayne Cobb, again.

KingofCretins | August 01, 17:47 CET

What is the over/under on how long they can say they were "formerly known as" Firefly Universe Online? I'm betting... a day?

Andrea 2s1 | August 01, 17:54 CET

I was wondering about that, too.

The One True b!X | August 01, 17:56 CET

I don't know if my heart can take all of these shocking developments :).

*Please note my sarcasm.

zeitgeist | August 01, 18:14 CET

I don't play MMOs but why doesn't Fox make their own? Fans have clearly been wanting one for about the last 10 years.

eddy | August 01, 18:21 CET

20th isn't in the business of making games. Not exactly their core competency. If a legitimate gaming company pitched a game to them and wanted to pay for the license, I'm sure they would seriously consider it and have in the past.

IrrationaliTV | August 01, 18:23 CET

Rockstar should make a Firefly video game. They make awesome scale, emotional punchy, entirely open world games.

gossi | August 01, 18:35 CET

Turbine would probably do it pretty well, also.

zeitgeist | August 01, 18:36 CET

The best MMO property Fox has under the Mutant Enemy banner is the Buffyverse. Set in the post-Season 7, pre-8.33 plot twist and/or plot implosion, you would have a good setting for multi-faction, multi-class PVE and PVP gameplay, could incorporate all IP from "Buffy" and "Angel" into it. But "Buffyverse" merchandising is typically knickknacks, not gaming.

KingofCretins | August 01, 18:53 CET

Considering Fox shut down the Once More With Feeling sing-along event and and took down my Buffy themed youtube video after one week this is no surprise.

If you want a Firefly-like game experience look at: www.ftlgame.com/

Minor Annoyance | August 01, 18:59 CET

I laughed when I saw this headline. Not because I'm mean-spirited or anything, but I just also thought this was going to happen at some point.

Mitholas | August 01, 19:35 CET

Their current site message "At the behest of Fox Entertainment, the project formerly known as Firefly Universe Online is undergoing radical transformation to become the most revolutionary, ground-breaking massively infinite roleplay experience" has been up since at least last Friday.

That's a C+D I would enjoy reading, mostly because of Dark Cryo's earlier post:

"We have been in communication with more members of Hollywood than one can fathom, and the notion from Trolls that we are flying blind cannot even be dignified with a response. That being said, out of respect for signed non-disclosure agreements, we cannot give specifics."

Questions and Remarks

1) What exactly constitutes a "member of Hollywood"?
2) I can fathom a whole lot. Dude.
3) "Critic" does not equal Troll. (Or neither "H8ter" - but that's another story.)
4) We've signed a fair few NDA's at our company (Ragtag Design) & they don't prevent you from protecting yourself from claims of being an IP thief.

However, this from that same Dark Cryo post does kind of open one up to them:

"How many of you are those actually devoted to the project regardless of licensing, as oppose to those whom have joined us only under the condition that we receive official endorsement?"

Oh, dear. The whole thing was kinda sad - the writing, the content, the spelling errors, the whole gestalt screamed out "Not. Gonna. Happen."

QuoterGal | August 01, 20:11 CET

Yeah, you have to watch out for those screaming gestalts; they can be problematic to say the least.

zeitgeist | August 01, 20:19 CET

'Specially when they holler like Shepherd Book - 'cos I believe him when he says stuff. #SpecialHell

QuoterGal | August 01, 20:23 CET

Screaming Gestalts...you guys aren't forming another band, are you?

jcs | August 01, 21:33 CET

Screaming gestalts ain't got nothing on the screaming heebie jeebies!

Wookiee | August 01, 23:50 CET

It's a shame, because their vision for the MMO was fantastic and whatever they're gonna call it now, it's going to be amazing when it's released. Would have done a lot to introduce new people to Firefly when all of the sudden that was the name of the best new MMO on the market.

Fallen | August 02, 00:58 CET

Actually, Cease and Desist would be a pretty cool name for an MMO. I also saw this coming like River and Reavers.

Jjsquid | August 02, 07:43 CET

If it is a truly excellent MMO then it will succeed on its own merits. And maybe for their next game they can get the license first and then use the name of the property instead of trying to fund their development on the back of a name they had no right to. Just a thought.

IrrationaliTV | August 02, 07:54 CET

Their website also now says: "At the behest of Fox Entertainment Group, we have mutually agreed it best to remove both the banner and video depicting the Firefly Universe Online project in its current form during this window of license negotiation."

gossi | August 02, 18:20 CET