True Games, the publisher of Mytheon, is suing Mytheon developers Petroglyph due to the fact that Petroglyph has failed to produce a Gold Master for Mytheon by the designated deadline and is refusing to turn over the game's source code to True Games so that they can proceed on their own. The deadline was previously set at November 15th, 2009, but was then moved to February 1st, 2010, which was also missed.
According to the court documents, Petroglyph informed True Games that a Gold Master of Mytheon would be available by the end of March, though they required additional funding to do so.
The court documents also reveal that Petroglyph CEO Chuck Kroegel claims that Mytheon was "NEVER conceived to be a full-blown MMO, which costs upwards of $15 million and three to five years to complete. The trend, however, over the last months has been to move this game to the scope of a full-blown MMO."
The full court documents can be found here.
via Massively.
Gave this game a second opportunity today, it´s just a RTS dressed as a MMORPG, it´s a pitty, if the game had no units to summon and wasn´t 100% instanced it would be a nice thing to play.
Say bye-bye to Mytheon it sounds like.
Not that great of a game anyway.
"a full-blown MMO, which costs upwards of $15 million and three to five years to complete."
The painfully sad yet hilarious part of this is that this statement is generally accepted within the industry now.
You can tell that Mytheon was never meant to be a full blown MMOG, and if it really wants to be one, it has a very long way to go yet. I hope that they understand what it is they are asking for and take a step back. Giggle as you will, as it may not take 3-5 years to produce an MMOG, but it certainly takes an exponentially longer time than it does to create a single player experience... Mytheon isn't even close to being ready as an MMOG so I hope that True Games can figure this out for themselves...
If what is being said is true, I feel sorry for TGI. A lot of those things in the court documents will need to be proven. I played the closed and open beta of this game and I even introduced it to a couple of people and aside from the bugs, the game was fun and interesting to play for us, if not at least something different than the usual mmorpg. I wish them much luck in their case.
same here I hope all ends well and the game does not die because of this because its what I wanted since a long time
Battleforge disapointed me for several reasons and I grew tired of classical MMO's,here with this game it was a perfect blend of the two and I love it
ya i used to be a seraph for mytheon but the game did'nt seem to be what it was discribed as,which disipointed me a lot i always blamed it on True Games but now i can see that they had good intentions and that i shoudlnt shift the bame onto 1 side
Is this another one of those situations of getting in-bed with the devil?
I cant help but chuckle with all the gaming related lawsuits I've cought a glimpse of this year alone. I know its a real business, but you'd think there'd be a business man in there somewhere.
The games pretty good, but their are way too many bugs, its 100% instanced which sucks becuz a lot of the times it crashes in the middle of an instance, that especially sucks when your in a party! Mytheon ahs a long way to go to even dream of bein a full blown mmo!
Was playing the beta. Bugs drove me away. The actual gameplay is fun between the assorted bugs.
As far as I can tell, no bug fixes have occured for at least the last 2 months.
I tired the beta myself the gameplay was actually pretty fun. Definitely more of a single player style game though than an MMO. If it did go gold I would probably buy a box as a single player game, but it's way to instanced for me to subscribe to it as an MMO.
I played the beta also. I wouldn't even describe it as a beta, more like an alpha that they were trying to force into becoming a beta.
The game is laughable Petroglyph didn't make a Gold Master because of that so now True Game is pissed off at them because they wanted to profit on our stupidity for something that's not that great.
Hey True Games did you ever think to ASK Petroglyph what their reasoning was? No? Well if I were the judge I would hear both sides of the story and then throw your butts out of court for being a typical publisher.