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Re: The Name of the Game
« Reply #15 on: January 05, 2013, 03:46:19 AM »

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What's Starsector? it is nor ship, nor crew,
Nor drones, nor space, nor autopulse lasers
Belonging to a game. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? That which we call "Harpoon"
By any other name would hit as hard;
So Starsector would, were it not Starsector call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which it owes
Without that title.
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Re: The Name of the Game
« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2013, 04:11:02 AM »

I'd have liked to see a more bookish title, like Fall of the Domain or The Last Sector or something. Since you were changing it anyway. But I understand that you wouldn't want to break from the previous title in a too drastic manner.
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Re: The Name of the Game
« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2013, 04:27:20 AM »

Why did the name have to change anyways? Did someone claim the name? http://www.starfarer.com ?

Or was it because Alex wanted to?

Oh god this site again...
The first time I accidently went there I thought it's an ad for a strange space-fetish "escort" service.

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Re: The Name of the Game
« Reply #18 on: January 05, 2013, 04:45:33 AM »

Yeah... Starfarer was of course a play on wayfarer, which immediately created associations and mental images of journeys into the (final) frontier, voyages into the unknown undertaken by ships with no base to operate from, wandering the stars and scavenging what they need, more jury-rigged than properly maintained. It had a Firefly-esque vibe to it. The new name lacks that completely.
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Re: The Name of the Game
« Reply #19 on: January 05, 2013, 08:22:21 AM »

Giving more thought about it, with the fluff and the state of the galaxy, Shattered Domain would be a good sounding title for it, I would think.
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Re: The Name of the Game
« Reply #20 on: January 05, 2013, 10:10:38 AM »

It might have something to do with a game called starfare, but I don't know for sure.
There is a board game named "Starfarers of Catan", I suppose that's the reason for the name change.
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Re: The Name of the Game
« Reply #21 on: January 05, 2013, 01:18:27 PM »

Shattered Domain

Would've been a good name. Pointless to discuss since the name change is final.
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Re: The Name of the Game
« Reply #22 on: January 05, 2013, 01:42:35 PM »

Would've been a good name. Pointless to discuss since the name change is final.

I still haven't gotten a reason WHY the name change is final, and even if there is a good one, the new name stinks, so hopefully it can be changed still. But that can't happen if people are giving up, and just accepting the new name because we've been told there's no other choice.

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Re: The Name of the Game
« Reply #23 on: January 05, 2013, 02:22:13 PM »

Would've been a good name. Pointless to discuss since the name change is final.

I still haven't gotten a reason WHY the name change is final, and even if there is a good one, the new name stinks, so hopefully it can be changed still. But that can't happen if people are giving up, and just accepting the new name because we've been told there's no other choice.

There may be a good reason for not telling us any more than 'business reasons'. In my experience it's not in Alex's nature to do something for no good reason, or deliberately ignore the community, so if you don't get any response on this my advice would just be to let it lie.

We aren't owed a reason, really. The developer's need to act in the best interests of the game, and if they don't, ultimately they will be the ones with the problem!

My own personal feeling is that there is no objective difference between either name, only one that we know to be 'our game', and one that is foreign.
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Re: The Name of the Game
« Reply #24 on: January 05, 2013, 02:28:15 PM »

If would've been nice if he'd informed us instead of just renaming the game with the patch. :/ I think that's what got us all.
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Re: The Name of the Game
« Reply #25 on: January 05, 2013, 02:46:15 PM »

Although it's not entirely untrue though that a name could sell copies, can anyone honestly think of a name so awesome that it was the sole determining factor, or even a significant factor, in you buying it? Was "Starfarer" actually so great that you wouldn't have bought it if it was originally named "Starsector?"

The important thing is that you don't have a stupid name. For example, if your name was something ridiculous like, iunno, "Space Pirates and Zombies," then there might be some people who shun your game and you might lose a few sales. But Starsector won't cost the game anything. Because it isn't weird. It is to us, but not to new customers. They won't give half a darn.

Starfarer wasn't really all THAT unique anyway.

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Re: The Name of the Game
« Reply #26 on: January 05, 2013, 02:48:32 PM »

I agree that it is mostly a matter of getting used to it. All this concern that Starsector doesn't work phonetically, makes no sense or doesn't fit seems more of a symptom of the astonishment caused by the name change than a real issue.

I mean, how often do you think or talk about the linguistic elegance or the contentual appropriateness of some games name? For me this is a first.

And it is not even unfitting, the game is about the "Sector" after all. If you as the Starfarer or the Sector as a living, breathing game world will be the main protagonist of the game is not yet to see (and may be up to interpretation).


BTW, do we really need two threads about this?

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Re: The Name of the Game
« Reply #27 on: January 05, 2013, 02:49:13 PM »

No, but the name fitted the setting better, don't you agree, verrius? The name also summarised the prospect of the game better too.
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Re: The Name of the Game
« Reply #28 on: January 05, 2013, 02:57:14 PM »

No, but the name fitted the setting better, don't you agree, verrius? The name also summarised the prospect of the game better too.
In a sense, perhaps it did. Depending on how you look at it.

All these meanings derived from the titles "Starfarer" and "Starsector" are all mostly what people feel personally. like Gothars said, Starsector is very fitting in the sense that the game takes place in one sector of space.

To somebody just picking up the game, these things are meaningless anyway. This isn't a book where people are going to be scrutinizing every little bit of symbolism and meaning a century down the line.

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Re: The Name of the Game
« Reply #29 on: January 05, 2013, 03:14:35 PM »

TB's video is outdated now, with the name changed :/
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