There are some rumours , or more talk at JGE forums. Saying that game is dead.

Netdevil are promising beta since 2007. And the game was delayed 3 times each time pushed by 6 months.

Gazillion that acquired Netdevil , started fiering employes yesterday and closing its studios.

And on top of that it was so quiet , i think most of the people forgot what Jumpgate is....

The layoffs were at Slipgate Ironworks and the studio wasn't closed [source] - this doesn't affect NetDevil in any way, except I guess if any of the developers that were moved around internally ended up on ND's development team.

The game is still very much alive and the last few months have been spent reworking chunks of the game based on feedback from the F&F tests earlier this year. As soon as the powers that be are happy to announce more concrete news, they will do. Anything else you hear are, as you say, just rumours - unsubstantiated and baseless.

Maybe so, but as I stated in the thread below this one, Amazon has recently pushed the estimated release date of this game back by almost six months on its preorder form.

Honestly, I wish they'd stop announcing MMORPGs at all until they're about a year away from release, give or take. Instead, they show them at E3 three, even four years before release, and waiting half a decade to play them is getting pretty tiresome.

It's also why these rumors start floating around.

2007 they said the game will be released end of the year or early spring 2008.

Its just puzzles me how can you miss your estimate by 4 years ?

Not sure where you're getting your information (cite some sources would be good) but the game wasn't formally announced until the tail end of 2007/start of 2008 and was firmly described as being in alpha in March 2008. I'll happily cite my source: Scott Brown over a drink at the end of the Codemasters Connect '08 event - that was 14th/15th March 2008 and was the first public showing of the game.

Originally posted by Mulli

Not sure where you're getting your information (cite some sources would be good) but the game wasn't formally announced until the tail end of 2007/start of 2008 and was firmly described as being in alpha in March 2008. I'll happily cite my source: Scott Brown over a drink at the end of the Codemasters Connect '08 event - that was 14th/15th March 2008 and was the first public showing of the game.

As you corectly state - game was announced second half 2007.

At that time Scot claimed that they worked on the game for quite some time in quiet. And since they have great experience form JGC the game would be finished Q1 2008.

This was before Codemasters stepped in as publisher.

After that - they said Codemasters give them more time to concentrate on polish and the game will released in summer 2008.

Since they changed forums twice , its quite hard to find the source.

What I find symptomatic is that they said exactly the same thing when Gazillion took over.  And it was again in the time they promised the release.

It really starts to sound like waporeware

This is the lamest thread ever.

JGE could be released today. So it is hardly vaporware. Everyone is getting restless yes but that in no way means that the game is some how caned.

They are reworking the quest system and other minor and major things to make the best game they can based on feed back from testers. So ND is doing what every mmo dev team should. They are listening and improving the game. They are making sure the game is as fun as it can be before they release it which is exactly what they should do in the very competitive market that the mmo market has come to be. So what, do you want them to release a half assed game so you can then complain about how the game is clearly not as good as it could have been?

ND has the will, the expertise and the backing to develop this game methodically and thoroughly and I sure as hell don't want to rush them and you should be glad they are taking the necessary time to make this game great. Besides we have been waiting for a good twitch-skill based space mmo for years whats another 6 months.

And as they have said before, they will release the game when they think it is as good as it can be. They will release when it is done and not before.

Here watch this in case you missed it: www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/297/view/videos/play/1528/AGDC-09-Developer-Walkthrough.html

There seems to be a lot of children on these forums. Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?  WHAAA I want my bottle. LOL 

Seriously get someone to change your diapers so you are not so cranky!

If a companysays game is ready for release 2007.

Than scraps it.

Say game is ready for relese 2008

Scraps it...

Say game is ready for relese 2009

Scraps it...

Say game is ready for release 2010...

Does that mean that they started over 4 times,cause something was terribly wrong ?

Or that they are so amauterish that they miss self estimated deadline by year..and than by another year...and another, and another.

They said game was supposed to enter closed beta 4 years ago for crying out loud!

Originally posted by Lobotomist

If a companysays game is ready for release 2007.

Than scraps it.

Say game is ready for relese 2008

Scraps it...

Say game is ready for relese 2009

Scraps it...

Say game is ready for release 2010...

 

Does that mean that they started over 4 times,cause something was terribly wrong ?

Or that they are so amauterish that they miss self estimated deadline by year..and than by another year...and another, and another.

They said game was supposed to enter closed beta 4 years ago for crying out loud!

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The release dates you posted are fabrications.

If the game is not as good as it could be then yeah something is terribly wrong with releasing it before you adjust it to be as good as it can be.

Your claim that ND is an amateur company is ridiculous. The fact that they have stated they are not releasing JGE until they feel it is done tells us that they are vets and your release dates are made up. They were the ones who made JGC. They are the perfect company to make a twitch-skill based space flight simulator mmo because they already have made a twitch-skill based space flight simulator mmo; and JGC still has the best flight engine of any space game to date. You are just saying stuff for the sake of saying stuff is what it sounds like.

They estimated get over it. Any projections were not meant as deadlines set in stone.

THERE IS NO RELEASE DATE FOR JGE!

If you want a company that chooses deadlines over quality then SOE is the company for you.

Just because some utter idiot posts an incredibly dumb thread on the official forum saying the game is dead doesn't make it so.

 thats so obviously not true.  why would they post content and update the sight if they were dead? 

Willing to wait as long as it takes for ND to put out a product they believe in. Love space sims and really looking forward to giving this one a whirl. When the time is right I hope this game delivers...

I'm interested in finding out if the game falls on it's ass or if ND bothers to listen to any of their fan base from the previous game Jumpgate Classic.

So far they have told the classic players that they aren't going to get what they want and they should just deal with it.

We tried to explain things to them in Auto Assault as well...

I love the lore and the setting.  Loved the classic game.  The new one sounds like a travesty of the old.

Going to be WoW in space.  If that appeals this might be the game for you.  PVP should be a joke based on what devs are saying.   PVP sounds utterly pointless.  So hopefully they will make the PVE side of the game phenomenal.  There is no point to their PVP as the game currently stands.

AOC did this and failed.  WAR did this and failed.  Netdevil thinks they can do it and it will work.

mmmkay.

Maybe I need to change my signature, not sure I'm a fan of what they are putting out anymore.

So they should make the game more like JGC? yea, that seemed to workout for them the first time ...

PvP sounds like what it was in DAOC and Planetside and that's sector/base control, so it should be good if they impliment it right.

 I was kind of hoping this would actually release, as it looked to be the only solution to getting a decent space MMO with Eve being the only one at the moment, and Dark Prophecy looks terrible. I guess there's Star Trek Online, but that doesn't look that hot either, and I'm not really into star trek that much.

Craaaaaaaaaaap )=. Looks like its back to fantasy then.

There is no way it will be released in next 12 months. If it gets released at all.

And even than it will be mere shell of what was expected.