http://www.spacesector.com/blog/2012/05/master-of-orion-4-cause/
The reason for this post is to explore what the community thinks of the possibility to have a new Master of Orion sequel come to life in the near future. Would you support such cause? If someone showed up on kickstarter proposing to make Master of Orion 4, with or without the IP rights (without it would be renamed to something else) would you back that up?
The question has been asked many times. “Why is there no Master of Orion 4 yet? Or even not planned?” The reasons are probably multiple. A combination of IP issues with lack of interest of the big publishers and the consensual conclusion that Master of Orion 3 was not that successful. And probably the understandable fear of not being up to the challenge.