I just wanted to add a few more things about Shattered Galaxy.
Shattered Galaxy is the Blueprint that all other RTS style games can benifiet from.
It was a custom game from Warcraft3 that led to the boom that became MOBA. Dota2 and LOL.
It was a gameplay style known as Battle Royale in Arma 3 that led to all the BR's that we no today. (Correct me if I'm wrong that it was Arma 3 who did it first).
It was when I played Spiderman on the PS2 that gave me that first feeling of Open World Concept and again with GTA and GTA vice city. You can know find this Open World Concept in a lot of major games.
This is what Shattered Galaxy is. It is a building block all RTS style games can use to come up with a new way to play strategy games. It's just been off the Radar all this time. You won't find it on Steam. And you won't find any Streamer past or present ever hearing about it let alone ever playing it.
Can real time strategy games come back from the brink of death? Yes, all they got to do is change game.
Man for sure. I've said before on Reddit that someone should buy out the rights to Shattered Galaxy and release a Shattered Galaxy 2. There's so much stuff in that game they left unfinished, and so many ways they could even continue to build on what they started.
Like... I want to see someone buy the rights to SG, then do what so many other companies are doing right now and revive this game. I mean really... Nexon already did it with Maple Story 2. DAoC is getting Camelot Unchained. Ultima Online is getting Legends of Aria. Runescape has a mobile app now. Warcraft 3 got remastered, Age of Empires is getting AoE4, the list goes on...
I don't see why Nexon doesn't follow suite with Shattered Galaxy too. Though, I probably wouldn't want to see them do it- like i said, i'd rather they sell the rights and a decent company take over...
Ideally: I'd want to see Shattered Galaxy graphically overhauled, and fine tuned. I.e. Reincarnation was always clunky. The political aspect to the game was underutilized due to minimal incentives. Alien Caves were kind of dumb and useless. Only two planets were ever completed and one of those planets is the starting zone. They had a number of unused resources. The faction with the most people online had a pretty strong advantage. Etc. Then, i'd love to see the publisher market the hell out of the game, and actually produce updates.
There's so much room for expansion in this game in the form of new planets, maps, additional objectives, new game types, etc. You could even add a better open world aspect to it and draw on elements from games like UO... maybe regiments could build structures that would be destructible in battle, generate passive income by holding key territories, research massive faction-wide upgrades that take days or even weeks but require your faction to hold the center territory on the map for the duration, etc. And if they're worried about how they can monetize it, subscription services are perfectly fine, and there are plenty of ways to add skins and such for micro-transactions without making the game pay2win.
Like really, this could be an incredible game. Instead it's sitting dead and outdated. Someone should do something about it, and right now seems like a great time to do it.