Because they're EA
They enjoy dissapointing their customers

This would be a good game for some small private company to take over and improve. Since launch EA never invested any of the subscriber money back into the game. No real expansions, etc. All that happened were changing quests to follow the story line.

There is certainly a place for E&B in the MMOG world. Like others I really enjoyed it for a while until it got boring (around level 75 for me). The addition of new regions with player controlled settlement and consensual clan wars over strategic locations and it would be a good game.

Yah it would have been VERY cool if they'd added a PVP expansion like they promised for so long too. Unfortunately all they ever did was that goony arena.

The changes they DID make only made the game harder and harder for new players. NOOB areas with CL 50 ships / monsters "invading" them was just plain dumb.

Ahh well.. EVE is almost as good for those who were really hooked. Better in some ways. Though I liked the quests in E&B A lot. Agent missions are basically the same as the job terminal in E&B. The quests/NPC Missions in E&B were very nice. If they'd had more of those I probably would have never stopped playing E&B.

Not just no, but 'HELL NO!'

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"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
Thomas Jefferson

Hell Yes. with a new owner, and new name... the game was awesome ! And it could of been so much more.

Sharkdaddy

Do I think Earth & Beyond should be brought back?  You ask this question lightly as if it were the simplest thing in the world to decide.  But sometimes the simple things are the most difficult.  And so I sit here with the Earth and Beyond rulebook and CD laying upon my desk, beckoning me to make a decision.  Nay, not necessarily to give it another chance, but to decide it's fate one way or another.  The tired folded pages of that booklet, turned once too many times, the cracked CD case showing a hazed reflection of the tired eyes that once looked with glee and excitement upon the game newly played.

You ask, do I think Earth and Beyond should be brought back?  Yes, I tell you, but not for this generation of jaded pampered gamers, but perhaps for a new generation of younger gamers, those who idle away their time in third world countries, knowing neither joy nor pleasure.  It is to those masses this game must be presented.

So, do I think Earth and Beyond should be brought back?  <sigh>  Of course.

 Right on Billius8,  but one thing,  if ea had much better updates grabbed the players hearts right off the jump E&B would of set the stage for all the future mmorpg becase there is nothen like flying around controlling big fat sweet ship w/ much firepower.

i myself am really tired of hack and slack mmorpg's such as everquest.

i blame ea and the gamers for letting this one slip away.

Sharkdaddy

I thought the controls were AWESOME ! How in the world do you see the controls like AO ?   And I did play this game everyday, sometimes 12 - 18 hours per day. Its really hard for me 2 see any bad poits of E&B besides EA buying Westwood and nerfing it from the start.

All good things come 2 a end sooner or later.

Sharkdaddy

Someone whould buy the source code and make it less boring, the game was well designed but after a while of the same thing it got boreing.

I played for a few months. After a while it did get boring. I thought the game was smooth and had some good graphics. But content and play wise, it just got boring and repetitive.

I'd play it for a month, it was quite an accessible space mmo really.

I loved this game and its still by far my favorite.  I really do wish they'd bring it back.  I tried EVE and loved the graphics but content was lousy (still is to this day as far as I'm concerned) and controls just plain suck.  I keep hoping that someone would put out a game like this but so far its all WoW or SWG clones.

have to agree with you there klyde.

question for you Klyde  do you remember any other people from trade consortium??   i ran under the toon  balseraph a lvl100 jenquai warrior  on andromeda server   in Trade Consortium.   do you remember   Warstorm progen.  panhandler.

god i wish this game would come back.

need to pay attention to the postiong dates  rofl