General: Copernicus: What Might Have Been
Kotaku has a new trailer that was originally designed to show off the world of 38 Studios' Copernicus, a world we will never see now that development has stopped. It's a bittersweet reminder of what might have been.
Check it out at Kotaku.
I remember them saying that the overall system would not be like Kingdoms of Amular, so I was really curious how this game was going to turn out.
Shame, it could have been interesting concept. Especially with story and lore done by R.A. Salvatore. Who knows, maybe someone in future hopefully continue the project.
It's a shame... Schilling bet his whole fortune on this. A true hardcore gamer, and a fan of EverQuest, trying to make an innovative MMO back to the hardcore roots of the genre (before everything went to hell) and it never ended up happening. But garbage like SWTOR leaks through...world just isn't fair sometimes.
I thought the project was bought by another studio? I think it was Riot or something. I don't remember the studio positively, but I remember they stated they dont acquire licenses, they "make them", hinting the game would exist in the future under a different IP.
no idea but Rhode Island supposedly owns all related projects
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/16/rhode-island-owns-38-studios-intellectual-property/
According to the documentation, 38 Studios' intellectual property rights and other collateral were pledged to the RIEDC and assigned to a trustee, which we've confirmed by pulling Uniform Commercial Code documentation. Any proceeds made from the sale of the collateral would go back to the bondholders. This covers "all rights, title and interest in any projects, including video game projects," such as Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and "Project Copernicus" – the title currently in development at 38 Studios.
Yeah I remember that article, but it's several months old at this point, and unless RI decides to learn how to make video games, chances are they acquired those assets to sell them and make the money back. That's just what I assumed when I read the article I mentioned. Currently googling to try and find it again. Going to be driving me nutty until I find it, now.
EDIT: Nevermind. It was EPIC Studios, and they didn't absorb the project, just the Staff that got laid off (most of them, others had already gotten jobs at other places). I still can't find the article with the quote that made it sound like they were looking to buy the Amalur property, but until I do there's no point in giving people rumor ammunition.
Nice trailer but it didn't really show anything as far as what game play would have been like. Bummer for Schilling, he probably should have just went on kickstarter and thrown a few bucks at a few games instead of flushing his fortune.
Looks pretty bad, good thing it was canned I guess. It was exciting to see what some big-name creative people would bring to the genre, but neither of the videos, nor the world shows in Amalur were at all interesting and if there is one thing that the world doesn't really it's another totally generic MMO
That really makes me wonder where all the money went. Looks like Sigil all over again but worse.
Sigil used their money to make an insane number of innovative and creative features...