And we all saw that coming. Back in August, we informed you about a fan remake of the first Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic game in Unreal Engine 4. And as you’d expect, Lucasfilm has shut it down.
It's with a great sadness that I'm posting today; I recently received a letter from Lucasfilm instructing Poem to end production on Apeiron. After a few days, I've exhausted my options to keep it afloat; we knew this day was a possibility. I'm sorry and may the force be with you pic.twitter.com/OCRmMIjwGT
— Poem Studios (@PoemStudios) October 11, 2018
This is nothing new as a large number of fan remakes of older games in new engines get shut down. Now I’m pretty sure that most of you will wonder why these fans are announcing their games prior to finishing them and the answer is simple; recognition. It’s pretty hard developing such fan projects and my guess is that most of these guys want to land a job at a company. As such, these recreations are perfect for building a portfolio.
Apeiron would require the original game, Knights of the Old Republic, in order to be played. This fan remake would also feature many aspects from the original game (such as the pausable combat and the original flow of the story), as well as new features and ideas such as 1st & 3rd person camera viewpoints and deeper customization.
So, another one bites the dust!
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If you’re not going to do a re-master yourself and sell it to consumers, then leave people the hell alone and let them make their own game!
At this point I wonder why anyone bothers making these remakes. It doesn’t matter than it’s a fan project and it’s all gonna be free. It’s so futile.
Probably should have shut the f*ck up and not announced the project and just released it when it was complete to a country that doesn’t give a single flying f*ck about I.P law. When will these morons learn? Seems like they never will since every single one gets shut down.
If you’re making a fan game, shut the f*ck up about it and maybe it will see the day of release.
But that means they have to finish it when it’s much easier to turn a few heads tinkering with the concept then move on to something else. It’s incredibly rare for a mod team to have the endurance to finish something of this scale.
They’re probably thanking Lucasfilm.
Yea. yea. More attention seekers. Like hell these projects were ever serious, they just wanted the attention now got it, good for them now fck off.
Obviously.
Its a great way to pad your resume. None of them expected to finish any of these projects.
Wow….. what a shocker.
Moral of the story….if you’re jobless,don’t make a fan remake if the one you seek is recognition…
I think we live in a time with too much artistic constraint and excessive copyright enforcement. I get it, we all need to make a living, and playing a remake of kotor 1 would take players away from your micro-transaction addiction simulator. However, we need a space for non-profit artistic liberty in gaming within copyrighted material.
I am officially announcing that I am making Red Dead Redemption Fan Remake on the PC…
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I just got a C&D. Thanks to all the fans that supported my work.
I would like to announce I am making God of War Fan Remake on the PC… and it just got shutdown. Thanks to all the fans that supported me.
I would like to announce I am making Star… and it was shut down. Thanks to all the fans that supported… and it was shutdown.
Thanks… shutdown!
I stopped feeling pity when fan remakes get shut down because at this point in history you would have to be a real moron to announce your fan project in any way what-so-ever until it is 100% done.
It was never their intention to finish it. Project of that scale takes a lot of manpower and finance. They just wanted to play the hero/victim for the internet.