So having been gone for the better part of a decade now, I’ve finally come back around to Freelancer. In the last few weeks I’ve been poking around the internet, and it does seem that there’s still a good degree of interest in this game (GOG, ModDB, Various Discord servers), even if there aren’t that many people playing it now.

I understand that there’s some pretty big technical and time-related hurdles to modernizing the Starport, although I’d love to see it active again, I think Freelancer’s glory days have been and gone, so it would probably be a pretty huge undertaking to even approach how things were.

Would anyone be interested in a bit of a community revival initiative? It would be pretty easy to get a centralised Discord server up for Freelancer and Freelancer modding-related things. I think there’s some fairly low-hanging fruit with regards to getting people engaged with the game and the community again.

What do you all think?

Yeah, Discovery does seem to be the largest active community left, but there's lots of (very) little ones and a tiny modding scene still going. I feel like if you have a central point to get people around, it gives these places a chance to grow.

I'll see what I can get together a bit later today then! Will post the link here when I can.

I did reply to your DM by the way, but I have no idea if it got through! Seems like there might be some technical issues going on with them at the moment.

I could put the discord link into the head bar of the FL Community network. I need to clean it up and update it to use https anyways.

So I havent come around updating the top bar, but at least I changed our outdated IRC Link in the left navigation to the Discord server. The top bar is still on my todo list though

@w0dk4 Thanks! We've been getting a steady influx of people since we started the Discord and having the link on the sidebar should definitely help keep that up!

Regarding GOG, Freelancer isn't on there, but it's in the top ten list of all requested games. Voting it up a bit more can't hurt!

It has been in that list for rouhgly 9 years lol

Honestly, MS has forgotten FL exists right after they released it. It didn't even get A SINGLE digital release ANYWHERE.

Let's be honest: The chances for FL even getting a digital release at all are pretty slim.