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With EA having purchased Westwood, yeah. Definitely not. I would even go as far to say Renegade was the product of EA trying out something to earn more profit. If there was a chance it would have to have been due to Westwood really trying to adapt to the market at the time frame or survive bankruptcy by adaptation. As a result the game would have been subpar unless they spent even more money in development or hiring other people. Which of course defeats the purpose of making Renegade 2. Anytime! While it's always great to watch game companies past/future speculation, it's also very important to look at the economic factors surrounding the time period to help gain insight into why things occur or would have. EA at the end of the day is a corporation. They are alive now due to the actions they've taken in the past. While it's dishearting for players like us, when you can pump out shit and people will buy it in droves... it doesn't matter when you go home in your Mercedes and you're an executive. Why would you ever stop doing what makes you money in any business. This outlook directly conflicted Westwood when they were purchased by EA. Westwood took their time with games and made revolutionary fun things. Their importance and focus was "We want to make fun games that we can't stop testing, playing and staying at work for". EA in an attempt to gain more money cut costs and rushed out production so that they could make more money. Westwood did the best with what they could untill 2005 when most if not all quit and went to work at Petroglyph Games. To give you an idea of how much Westwood cares about their games and players.. they restored the internet to a 14 year old game so people can play multiplayer again for free. It's just not profitable enough. Even if Westwood stood on their own and made it through they would have to create something other than RTS games. What we knew westwood studios for is a product of their time unfortunately in my belief. Although I saw a trailer earlier on our discord I believe of Westwood making a Renegade Clone. Idk if someone can pull it up but it's basically the spiritual successor to Renegade.

Found this super fun video on Renegade so I thought I'd share it with all of you.

Thank you guys for letting me know all of this info by the way, it's very interesting to learn. I really appreciate you all informing me on why things turned out the way they did. I probably otherwise would never have been able to figure it out.

I also subconsciously felt something like this at the time of the release of Halo so it's crazy for me to read as a fact. What you're basically saying is there would probably not have been much of a chance either way, huh? Thank you for breaking this down and explaining it to me in great detail. I had no idea about most of it. What a bumpy long ride that must have been for Westwood. Apparently they were through a lot more than I thought. I just assumed EA was being the profiteering devil as it usually was. Although it's still a shame because I'm still very much a fan of Renegade but I do feel somewhat better knowing there wasn't all that much that could have been done either way no matter how hard they tried. I only wish Westwood was always able to stand on their own. Such a unique company with unique visions. It's basically unheard of to play an RTS game as an FPS/3PS but they made that a possibility. EA are still jerks though.

More Visceroids. Got it.