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Bye Bye Stargate Worlds
RedwoodSap
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GamingIndustry.biz reported that Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, the developers of Stargate Worlds, are being sued by Capital Princess LLC over an "unpaid open account", adding to its already reported funding problems. We'll keep you updated as details become available.
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Geez yea man, I noticed the news post, thats one long list.
Looks like everyone from landscaping to painting contractors are after some money.
get Emmert on the phone :P the world needs a stargate mmo.
I had read that most of their programmers and developers had gone months without pay to support getting the game out...but OMFG! that list is huge!! I think the laundrymat around the corner is sueing them for unpaid washes too! maybe they should pull an AIG and ask for bailout money :P
Sad to see an original and interesting IP go this way. Hope there's a miracle somewhere but this is the worst times for financial issues...
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Only one item on that list is for Cheyenne. The list is for all suits in that area. You will notice that the plantiffs and defendents are different for each one. You have to go pretty far down to find the one for Cheyenne.
Clearly you didn't even bother to read the site, as only one of those lawsuits involves CME.
I really hope that *insert game name here* will be the first game to ever live up to all of its pre-release promises, maintain a manageable hype level and have a clean release. Just don't expect me to hold my breath.
Nooooooo! It is just one lawsuit, but still, not good.
Just one lawsuit? Read this thread click, this is merely the latest in a long line of court appereances for GW and his businesses concerning SGW!
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
I hate to break it to you guys but this game will never see the light of day. CME were frigen idiots for trying to take Stargate and make it in to an MMO right off the bat. Making MMO is vastly more expensive then making single player games. Had CME been smart they would have taken Stargate and made a few single player games first, maybe a FPS, Flight Sim (how cool would it be to go head to head with a death glider in F-302), maybe even couple RTS.
Then beyond just making some Stargate games they should made some other types of game. Thus allowing them to get there footing and build up some capital. All they did by trying to turn Stargate in to an MMO out the door is not only effectively shoot them selves in to foot but kiss any chance of a Stargate game ever being made.
Really what idiots should have done was gotten the rights to Stargate Alliance and finished that game and released it to the public. I am really upset at CME and hope they die a slow painful death because they had the chance to launch Stargate in to game world and they blew it by trying to make it in to an MMO.
Even if they some how mange to release the game it won't do well and will more then likely die after about a year and that to will kill off any chance of future stargate games. No one will touch the IP, not after all the troubles the IP has head from two different companys.
I think its a sad day for Stargate fans, thats just my personal opinion.
Kiltak, what you have said has been my concern all along; there is only one chance to make a Stargate MMO and I've always said that I hope to god CME can pull it off.
The idea was started by 3 very capable and respected industry professionals, of which Jim Brown has left, I'm unaware of the others. Why would someone who said that this project was the most exciting project for him to be apart of just up and leave? Doesn't make sense, unless you take into account disagreements at the top.
I'm gutted at the current standings, and I hope for a miracle that it gets pulled off.
Jim Brown, Todd Ellering and Darryl Wofford I believe. Darryl left when Jim was forced out (official policy is that Jim quit, but that was after 2 years of constant repurposing and removal from SGW, by the time he left, he had nothing to do with SGW anyway). Todd was held as a contractor for a year or two more though Todd is now all but banned from the building. Jim and Todd are still founders and shareholders in the company though their word carries no weight.
They did not wish to leave, they were forced out for political reasons. Of which there are many sides to every story but needless to say they have nothing to do with CME or SGW now for reasons not of their own making. Things might be different if they were allowed to stay, or they might be worse. No way of knowing.