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Licensing issues.

They don't have the rights to it.

I'm glad they don't. The Dune games were awfully lame.

What, you want EA to screw up the Dune games too?

TBH, Dune is a great theme for a strategy game.

Especially if you would mix BFME-ish sword fighting with modern vehicles and weaponry (possible in the fiction thanks to the use of shileds).

Emperor is, IMO, the best (not to mention final) RTS done by Westwood, and I would really love to see more of it. But maybie a bit closer to the books..

As far as the licensing goes.. Well, yeah, but if anyone in the video game world has any right to do this, then it's the studios that took over WW's games.

I agree. A Dune RTS would be awesome to return to, as long as it remains roughly true to the style established by the movie.

I had this fantasy about a RTS/grand strat/mmo combination for the next DUNE. It would be like Eve online married with CnC and the Clausewitz-style grand strategy of Paradox. You would have a huge several hundred planet ingame universe. Every player begins as a minor house ruling over a portion of a planet granted to you by the Emperor. Inside this universe you'd have trade and warfare between the houses, but within the approval of the guild and the Empire, which govern the universe and set the rules of the game, so to speak. Interstellar travel would only be possible with the Guild's heighliners that would regularly move between star systems. Players could declare war on each other, with guild approval, and fight over planets (which would be divided into smaller regions, each constituting a separate battlefield) in the style of RTS world domination. The economy would be complicated and would allow for different paths to prosperity; i.e. resource mining, agriculture, trade domination and manipulation, etc. For balance purposes, you would first select a "type" of house and set slider values for it, which would determine the strength and weaknesses of your house, sort of like MMORPG characters at start up. These values you could change as your house develops.

well, d2k was pretty lame and obviously very low budget, but E:BFD was awesome.

I'm pretty sure Dune 3000 or Emperor: Battle for Dune 2, would have come out by now if anyone had the license still.

Not really. RA2 and other CNC universe games had much more success than the Dune sequels. This is probably why there hasn't been another Dune rts.

You're not counting someone else...like a Petroglyph attempting to secure the IP, too. The Herbert estate is known for being tough-nosed about anything Dune, and even canned a movie remake with Herbet's son on as an adviser in 08/09.

that cancellation of the film remake was such a big mistake.. it would help introduce a new generation to the dune universe. they would get a ton of cash just to say "yes go ahead", and loads of people would be interested to buy and read the book.

the problem was probably they wanted more $$$ to say the word "yes".. and no money is better than the millions they could of got because it wasnt millions enough

onless someone knows more info thats what im assuming happened anywho..

The studios attached to the new film pulled out due to the steep financial demands from the license holder. That's all I can recall as it came down to money as usual.

that will be nice but i dont think it will happen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6fp95uGfM&t=0m4s

I highly doubt if there will be a Dune movie in 2014 after a movie development cancellation, but I used to like this article that mentioned it: http://janeiris.hubpages.com/hub/Dun...-Watch-Out-For

The first Dune movie in 1984 had negative critic reviews, but its ministries in 2003 had high rating acclaim.