As you should also know, critical success doesn't equal financial success. A 3d space RTS that hasn't sold millions of units (I think combined, the Homeworld sales, including HW:C and HW2 is only 1.5 million or so) won't be what they're looking at. They're looking for ways to make money quickly. You also have to understand that THQ is on it's last legs. You have to understand, it's not Relic making the decision, it's THQ. (I want Homeworld 3 more than the rest of you combined). If you can't prove that your game's going to be easy to play AND awesome in your pitch meeting when trying to get funding from the Studio, you'll never get it made.Ĭouple that with pretty well the entire original art and design staff of Homeworld leaving Relic, with a handful of Homeworld 2 developers left on staff, Homeworld's done. Homeworld 3 won't happen because unless you can pick up and play the game in seconds, you won't sell many copies. Homeworld 2 was a decent attempt but it's development was filled with problems. You're never going to find another game as awesome as it was for its time. Sadly, this time around Homeworld 3's really not in development. Meanwhile I'd just been shown Homeworld 2's E3 Trailer by Alex Garden in a private showing at Microsoft's booth. I was at the booth for the ORB developers, when I was introduced to the guy as being from Relicnews he went 'Hey this is Homeworld 2!' (since he knew Homeworld 2 wasn't at the show).

It's like at E3 2003 when Relic wasn't able to show Homeworld 2. But without some concept art, some backstory (and it can't be set in the Homeworld universe, because they don't own the IP) and what not, they've got nothing at this time to offer all of us that want a Homeworld 3. What I get out of that site and that post is that they like Homeworld and they want to make a game like it.

Homeworld 3 e3 2021