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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 8700818" data-attributes="member: 50987">I'm chuckling here, thanks to that mental image.  But yeah: that's pretty much what it looks like.The sad thing is, I'm sure that some of their loyalists really wanted this project to succeed.  Not many, certainly not thousands of people, but there was a demand for it...certainly enough demand to make it worth doing.  There are people out there who really do have fond memories of playing Star Frontiers in the 1980s, and they really wanted to see at least a small part of the TSR Hobbies legacy survive in the Internet age.  Some of them were even willing to grit their teeth and swallow whatever jagged little pill they were offered, even if it wasn't quite perfect, so long as they could also get that piece of their youth back.Now this leaked material shows that the finished product is not going to meet anyone's standards.  It's bad on multiple levels: we see not only the embarrassing quality of the product, but also the poor management and baked-in bigotry of the company delivering it.  The number of people who wanted this product was already very small to begin with, and now it's getting even smaller.  Nothing short of a complete rewrite, from the ground up and under the close guidance of multiple sensitivity groups, managed by a professional company with years of experience, could save it.  And even then it would be a longshot.All that to say, the tone in certain corners of the Internet seems to have shifted.  More and more folks are talking about SF:NG in the past tense, and are talking about ordering the PODs of the original on DriveThruRPG.  It's not looking good for NuTSR.</blockquote>

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