In an ironic follow-up to my post yesterday, Kohnke Communications Inc (Kohnke) - G&H's former PR company - is suing Perpetual Entertainment (PE) for a number of things including breach of contract and other sleight of hand things that come from PE selling itself to itself. On the surface of it, Kohnke is going after money owed for the work it did up to the point G&H was cancelled -they only billed around a third of the $15k per month on the agreement that when G&H was launched, the outstanding amount plus an incentive up to 400% would be paid based on the number of G&H subscribers after 90 days after launch - which seems fair enough for at least the first $80k. I'm sure a secondary objective is to dissuade any other MMO companies from trying the same trick on it in future.
I say 'ironic' because i predicted that STO would not ship from PE, with the project dying before launch. I certainly didn't expect such a large potential reason for this death to appear so soon. Plus their would certainly be irony in PE dumping shelving G&H for STO, only for G&H to ultimately be behind the death of STO.
Kohnke levels some very serious charges in their complaint. This is going to get ugly for PE...P2...whatever they call themselves now. Get the popcorn!
Wed Dec 12 2007 3:21AM ReportWhat ever one wants to know is how this will affect Star Trek Online?
Wed Dec 12 2007 5:00AM ReportMy bet is STO is either sold or the IP is yanked. If the charges are true, PE just committed suicide. If they are not true, PE mismanaged themselves into looking bad enough that no PR can save them... Kinda ironic actually. Getting screwed by PR no matter what happens.
Wed Dec 12 2007 6:16AM ReportHmm.. lets experiment with the IP-yank flavors today....
1. Blizzard + STO....
2. SOE + STO.....
3. ArenaNET + STO......
Wed Dec 12 2007 10:35AM ReportBlizzard is too busy to take on another project.
SOE takes on anything this could happen.
ArenaNet this might happen as well but I'd rather see SOE take it on.
Wed Dec 12 2007 11:22AM Reportomg.. i thought i read on the side bar with the tags ANAL HEROES . i need to sleep..
anyway... when i was playing G&H beta it seemed way old and not like it was being created during this year.
Wed Dec 12 2007 1:42PM ReportMMORPG.com writes:
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