Acccording to a statement issued on Monday night, Firesky's upcoming MMORPG Stargate Worlds is still up and running and while it isn't out of the woods yet, the statement indicates continued goodness on the horizon.

For some time now, speculation has been running rampant about the current development status of Firesky's sci-fi MMO Stargate Worlds. Monday evening, Kevin Balentine, the game's Senior Marketing Manager issued an official statement assuring fans that the game is still under development.

"The lights here are still on and the development team is working hard every day to get this game built," said Balentine in the statement. "Team members are in the office seven days a week to deliver Stargate Worlds."

Read Stargate Still Standing

Not to sound negative, but this sounds like Perpetual all over again. I for one would rather Firesky die then release a crap game and ruin the Stargate franchise as a viable game.  I rather a tried and tested development company gain hold of the IP and put out a great StarGate game that's polished over Firesky releasing it just to release it.

I guess time will tell if they really have a deal with a new backer coming up. I just have a bad feeling it will be like Perpetual, shutting down over night just weeks before release without any vocal warning from them.

Sure Mr. Balentine.   blablabla.

Cheers

Kinda reminds me of Ken Lay urging ENRON employees to buy more stock just days before the implosion......

Now wait a minute, I don't think they'd let it go this far to let it fail

However notice that NOWHERE did it say they were in the office 7 days a week working full time on the game

gotta save money somewhere.

You have to look at the big picture.  It seems pretty unlikely that this game wil ever see the light of day.  Perhaps "still standing" for now but there's not one positive sign to be found.

What a load of complete nonsense.  We have enough bad spin doctors out there without adding another one.

Accept that you failed and move on.  There has been too much comment on the web how bad this game is. 

Originally posted by synergi

Not to sound negative, but this sounds like Perpetual all over again. 

Bingo. I still remember Gods and Heroes. After I played the mess that was beta, and the fact they could only run it twice a week at best...then they pulled this crap of "We are still on track"...oh, I don't know...one to two weeks before announcing the cancellation?

lol

Yea, I do not see this coming out. Disappointed really.

Later

Originally posted by Stradden

Acccording to a statement issued on Monday night, Firesky's upcoming MMORPG Stargate Worlds is still up and running and while it isn't out of the woods yet, the statement indicates continued goodness on the horizon.

For some time now, speculation has been running rampant about the current development status of Firesky's sci-fi MMO Stargate Worlds. Monday evening, Kevin Balentine, the game's Senior Marketing Manager issued an official statement assuring fans that the game is still under development.

"The lights here are still on and the development team is working hard every day to get this game built," said Balentine in the statement. "Team members are in the office seven days a week to deliver Stargate Worlds."

Read Stargate Still Standing

Picture says it all.  Doesn't even need a caption.

Originally posted by synergi

Not to sound negative, but this sounds like Perpetual all over again.

Agreed.

New MMO companies really need to get their stuff together... it takes a lot of time and money to make an MMO. I'd guess that they started with only a fraction of the funds they needed in the hope that a semi-finished product would rope more investors in, but did something wrong down the line. The economy might be suffering, but the gaming/MMO industry is not.

Originally posted by streea

The economy might be suffering, but the gaming/MMO industry is not.

I wouldn't say that... There have been layoffs all over the place. many people from within the industry are currently unemployed due to the economic crisis. Investor money in these difficult times, is hard to come by, smaller studios are having trouble making payroll... just like everywhere else.

Originally posted by GamerAeon

Now wait a minute, I don't think they'd let it go this far to let it fail

However notice that NOWHERE did it say they were in the office 7 days a week working full time on the game

gotta save money somewhere.

Let me remind you that Perpetual had a game called Gods & Heroes that was pretty much a finished product and just about ready for release and they closed down the game and the company.How far a game has progressed means absolutly nothing in todays economic environment.You would be wise to not get hyped about this game until you see it finished and released.

Originally posted by openedge1

Bingo. I still remember Gods and Heroes. After I played the mess that was beta, and the fact they could only run it twice a week at best...then they pulled this crap of "We are still on track"...oh, I don't know...one to two weeks before announcing the cancellation?

Some developers actually have play time "windows" in early stages of beta where they are doing so many changes that they have to focus on getting some of their main priorities in game before they will open it up to 24/7 access.  I recall Cryptic did this with City of Heroes -- iirc, they did a Wednesday/Friday 3 hour window for concentrated testing. As the product matured, they would let it run past the Friday window until the server went down on its own accord (or Monday morning and "back to work" time hit).  And of course, the windows eventually disappeared and the game went 24/7 while still in (what I would call) mid-beta.

Now that being said... I don't foresee anything good coming out of SGW.  If half of what I heard of the beta was even close, they should probably pull the plug and be done with it.

I'd really like to see this game come out, but more and more it looks like they are going to be forced to rush it out the door to get it out before they close up shop.

Sigh. I had high hopes for this one, but these days Im only giving this game about a 5% chance of coming out and being worth paying for.

Quite frankly this just sucks for the gaming community. The fighting style for this MMO was supposed to pave the way for new games out there but with this fail who knows if anyone will try something truly different!

This game was the reason I joined this site to keep tabs on it. Fortunately I've found some other games I like or this would've been a complete waste of my time.

It really should be taken as a kind of responsibility for anyone that's a fan of mmos to avoid this game. If it ever does see the light of day that is. I know how that sounds just looking at the statement, but do your homework on the company making it and the people in charge, and you'll see what I mean. If it ever makes it out, all the stuff surrounding it is going to really put a black mark on the entire genre, and the source IP for that matter. MGM should get this license back as soon as they can. The people still involved with it, employees and fans alike, should be ashamed of themselves.

I agree with first reply. I still think it's unlikely to come out and if it does it probably won't be what it should be. I'd really love for this to be an awesome game but anything short of amazing and we'd all better off without it.

SGW is the biggest disappointment (imo)-it should have been under developement season 3 and it's not even released after 10 years of sg1 and the many more from atlantis?  Sorry-far from unimpressed at this point.

Maybe they shouldn't of put all that money into sponsoring a raceteam. Hmmm that would of been a great money saver there. But I think if it comes down to it MGM would step in take control of CM and finish the game. MGM is very protective of the Stargate Franchise.

It was a good P.R. stunt. Hot people looking again.