Last Westwood Dune game? I don't agree.

[Mahdi]

Unless Gob's got some inside knowledge, I've got to disagree with him about this being the alst Dune game, for the following reasons:

1)  Even though E:BFD wasn't as popular as westwood wanted it to be, it still made money.  And any future Dune games are nearly garunteed to make money becasue of the audience already out there.   There are a lot of people out there who will buy a game jsut becasue the title is Dune.  If westwood just gives up and creates another franchis, that garuntee isn't there.  While it may not be a cash cow like c+c (yet) it does bring in a modest profit and has the potential of becoming a cash cow, if they could only do it right.

2)  The License.  I doubt it was cheap, and while they've probably made there money back on it, it hasn't expired yet, so why not crank out another game or two that'll bring in some garunteed cash and kill off the license?  While it's understandable that they would have kept it if E:BFD came out a few years ago jsut to kill competition for there games in the hopes of getting a few mroe sales, since the miniseries was released Dune games have been mulitplying like rabbits.  Holding onto the license isn't going to give them any money.  

Now, they may lease the last couple games on the license to anther company or two (a Blizzard Dune game in 2005?), but if so they'd probably be doing it soon in order to squeeze as much blood fromt eh rock as possible.

All in all, unless westwood announces the sale or elase of there Dune license in a efw months, I expect to hear of another westwood Dune game in about 3-4 years.

[Gobalopper]

Westwood never released any sales figures for the game, I heard something like half a million maybe but I don't know for sure. Considering most of their other games sell over a million and barely anyone plays Emperor only a few months after release I consider it to be a flop of sorts. Sure the game was good but people didn't buy it. There might be a Dune game from Westwood again, maybe, but there are no plans for one at the moment as far as I know.

Remember how long it took them to make Dune 2000 after they released Dune II? It will probably be longer this time...

[nemafakei]

It will certainly be longer; Emp is on the cutting edge for WW, so they will not be considering making another dune game unitil the Emp engine is long outdated after having been used for C&C- and RA- ish things.

[Edric O]

After what happened with Dune 2000 and Emperor, WW would have to be crazy to make another Dune game...

[nemafakei]

... even though it was their fault.

[Naub_dib]

theres already a new game in stores:

FR's DUNE

its a action game like thief!

[exatreide]

frank rebert?

[Gobalopper]

That game isn't made by Westwood.

[ordos45]

Ex making a typo and it not really being a typo.  How confusing.   ??? ???

[quoudam72]

That's Cryo Naub_dib not Westwood.

[Sly1]

Money is money.  There will be more Dunes in time....say three years?  Then Dune starved fanatics will buy like fools.

And Emperor was to expensive for alot of us.  In the good old USA it just hit 29.99 US dollars.  Was way out of my pricerange at $49.99. ::)