Stalker series no more (for real this time)

Stukov

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The reason we cannot continue with the development of Stalker 2 is we and our new investors we unable to come to an agreement with the IP rights onwer. The entire team that was working on Stalker is now working on a new project called Survarium. We are so grateful for the support over the years and despite our best efforts we have to move on from Stalker which is as hard for us as it is for you. However, we feel that our new studio and project will be something unique and fill the void left by Stalker as well as add a lot more! -Your Stalker Team-

My day keeps getting worse.

Rich_Guy · 04-25-2012, 22:52 | posts: 6,639 | Location: UK

Damn

Major Melchett · 04-25-2012, 23:15 | posts: 2,142 | Location: Manchester, UK

Kickstarter

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k1net1cs · 04-25-2012, 23:27 | posts: 3,310

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Originally Posted by Major Melchett

Kickstarter

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As have been said, IP problems.

In any case, I don't mind leaving out S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series as long as this new project is just as good, if not great.

scatman839 · 04-25-2012, 23:45 | posts: 8,727 | Location: Dundee, Scotland

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Originally Posted by k1net1cs

As have been said, IP problems.

Negotiate price to buy ip then kickstarter.

scoutingwraith · 04-25-2012, 23:50 | posts: 9,222 | Location: Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha

Damn....Stalker was a really unique game. (even though it ran a little off without .ini mods). Ill have to re-download my Steam copies to replay them again in the near future.

Labyrinth · 04-26-2012, 00:00 | posts: 3,437 | Location: Cheshire, England

So what will happen to the IP if there's no dev staff?

Tat3 · **Memory**: 3*2Gb 8-8-8-20 @ 1680MHz

They now can try some new ideas because it's not tied to STALKER name. Something better and less broken please

Gives you the impression that I didnt like those game... Loved the first one, second one was playable after 6months from the release and last one never got to finish.

scatman839 · 04-26-2012, 00:28 | posts: 8,727 | Location: Dundee, Scotland

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Originally Posted by Labyrinth

So what will happen to the IP if there's no dev staff?

Give it to a new company?

Else it'll just sit there idle.

Major Melchett · 04-26-2012, 00:37 | posts: 2,142 | Location: Manchester, UK

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Originally Posted by scatman839

Negotiate price to buy ip then kickstarter.

Or kickstarter for Radioactive wasteland hunter

RossCorp · 04-26-2012, 02:26 | posts: 874

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Originally Posted by Stukov

http://www.facebook.com/officialstal..._fb_noscript=1

My day keeps getting worse.

Awwwwwwww....say it ain't so! The most atmospheric series out there, and made for the PC no less! I'm really, really let down by this news.

Had a terrible morning, a terrible day at work (training new guy), a bunch of BS after work, and now I read this. I'm going to bed, going to forget this day ever happened.

k1net1cs · 04-26-2012, 04:33 | posts: 3,310

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Originally Posted by scatman839

Negotiate price to buy ip then kickstarter.

If they had the funding to buy the IP back then they wouldn't have any investor problems.

Year · 04-26-2012, 05:03 | posts: 11,657 | Location: ♫

i feel "artifacted" by the news.

volkov956 · *Last edited by volkov956; 04-26-2012 at 05:23.*

again why u dont let ur publisher take ur IP and about theyre new game so f* what free2play MMOFPS no thanks

Metro 2033 Devs are our last hope wait....some of them are the Stalker SOC Devs....

Year · 04-26-2012, 05:04 | posts: 11,657 | Location: ♫

really bad news, i loved the stalker series, was looking forward to stalker 2.

Redemption80 · 04-26-2012, 12:55 | posts: 13,412 | Location: Glasgow

Yeah, such a shame, but while it had many fans, it did have a fair amount of haters too, and unfortunately i just don't think slower paced SP FPS make that much money anymore.

The Metro2033 dev's would be the logical successors, but would THQ take it on, and 4A Games probably won't have the time to do it anyway.

Least we got the older games, and combined they have more gameplay value than every other SP FPS over the last several years put together.

robert1990 · 04-26-2012, 13:07 | posts: 734 | Location: Sydney/Indonesia

Damn, was looking forward for the STALKER 2

STALKER series is one of the best game I ever played

Corrupt^ · 04-26-2012, 20:08 | posts: 4,803 | Location: Belgium

I'm just going to sit tight and see what it brings. If it has the great atmosphere of STALKER, I'll probably enjoy it but otherwise...meh.

proliferazor · 04-26-2012, 20:29 | posts: 684

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Originally Posted by Major Melchett

Kickstarter

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Yes, and it doesn't have to be a "STALKER" IP game, it can be called something else, but play and look a lot like stalker.

If fact it seems like that is what the stalker team is doing anyway.

But if any fans want to get together and make a spiritual successor to stalker count me in! I am programmer.

proliferazor · 04-26-2012, 20:32 | posts: 684

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Originally Posted by Labyrinth

So what will happen to the IP if there's no dev staff?

Some big name publisher will make a sequal and say its better than the original. They however will completely demolish everything that was awesome about stalker, if fact I believe if the publisher does make a new stalker it will become far more like Call of Duty and far less stalker.

proliferazor · 04-26-2012, 20:41 | posts: 684

Wow I watched the vid from the other thread and now I am feeling better seems things are actually looking up. New engine, new environments, same stalker team, new story, same great stalker like theme, I am kinda excited over this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=Kl812VZv9VI

Survarium is a free2play MMOFPS game set in the near future. The game focuses on a mass- scale ecological catastrophe on Earth, the reasons behind vaguely known.
Impassable woods advance onto cities from every side, maddened animals and birds attack industrial complexes, military structures, warehouses and power plants. Towns are cut off from each other, there are no water supplies, no electricity, gas, communication is lost. Countries collapse, anarchy spreads throughout the world. Now force dictates who to survive. In the meantime, new species of greenery and animals purposely destroy human civilization. Strange plants and mushrooms grow through concrete and steel. Scientists all over the world haplessly try to cope with the anomaly sprawling across the Earth with terrifying speed.
"The concept of Survarium is a next evolution step for the idea of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. we’ve been working on for the last ten years. – said Project Lead Ruslan Didenko. – Survarium will go way further forcing mankind to fight for survival not only within the closed area of Chernobyl zone, but also far beyond."
"Technology versus nature, rational versus mystical. Such a confrontation enables us to take a new look at the current happenings in our world, - said Aleksey Sytianov, Lead Game Designer of the project. – Survarium will offer players an atmospheric world of civilization crash, filled with factions and loners, stalkers and hunters surviving in a wild anomalous environment."
The game is developed on a new proprietary Vostok Engine technology and is planned for release on PC at the end of 2013.

Labyrinth · 04-26-2012, 20:58 | posts: 3,437 | Location: Cheshire, England

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Originally Posted by proliferazor

Some big name publisher will make a sequal and say its better than the original. They however will completely demolish everything that was awesome about stalker, if fact I believe if the publisher does make a new stalker it will become far more like Call of Duty and far less stalker.

Reminds me of Flatout 3, oh well goodbye STALKER

Stukov · 04-27-2012, 00:55 | posts: 4,826 | Location: South Dakota