YMMV / SubSpace

• Spiritual Successor: Following VIE's bankruptcy, some of SubSpace's developers went on to create similar games for other companies—
  • Rod, Jeff, and Juan went to work for Origin Systems on a SubSpace-like MMO called Crusader Online. However, that game never left alpha.
  • After that, Rod, Jeff, and Juan joined Harmless eGames LLC and turned the Crusader Online concept into Infantry which launched in 1999. Originally published by Brainscan Interactive, Sony Online Entertainment bought it in 2000 and then eventually shut the game down in 2012.
  • Jeff went on to develop Cosmic Rift as a more direct successor/competitor to SubSpace. Sony Online Entertainment published this game in 2001, and in 2002 implemented a subscription service model along with other Station Pass games, like Infantry—and like Infantry, SOE eventually shut down Cosmic Rift in 2012.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: When VIE released the software that allowed people to host their own custom servers back in 1997, there was initial backlash from those who played since the beta. They derided the new custom zones as "newbie zones" or "super zones," owing to the settings on those servers often being far more intense—higher rates of fire, faster speeds, shots so powerful they kill in one or two hits. As the years and decades passed, though, this derision mostly subsided.