Gods and Heroes, mmo due Q3 2007 CANCELED

[Nadia]

http://www.godsandheroes.com/

news
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/setV ... gameID/187

SOE is the publisher
http://www.station.sony.com/

[Nadia]

http://www.warcry.com/articles/view/bre ... y-Canceled

Update 10:19 PM EST: The official Gods and Heroes website brings final confirmation from PE President and Executive Producer Chris McKibbin.

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears...

Loyal and faithful community members and Beta testers, thank you for your support, help, and understanding during the Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising development process.

The development team established some very lofty and ambitious goals when the initial work was started on Gods & Heroes. Recently, we took a step back to evaluate the competitive landscape, the game's current state, and the overall goals for our organization. And while we are truly proud of and pleased with what we have created in Gods & Heroes, we also realize that achieving the level of quality and polish that we are committed to will take a significant investment.

The Perpetual team is faced with a unique challenge of simultaneously developing both Gods & Heroes and Star Trek Online in addition to growing our Online Game Platform business. After assessing all of Perpetual's opportunities, we have made the decision to put the development of Gods & Heroes on indefinite hold.

I want to express my overwhelming gratitude to the community, engineers, designers, artists, animators, and the game services team for the support and effort that has gone into Gods & Heroes.

Moving forward, we're shifting our collective focus, resources and development efforts to Perpetual's Platform Services division and Star Trek Online, thereby ensuring that the game lives up to the high level of expectation set by the dedicated Star Trek fan base.

Again, I would personally like to thank all of the Gods & Heroes supporters who have been with us from the beginning. Hopefully, your continued support will be as valuable to our future endeavors as it was with Gods & Heroes..

Vade in pace,
Chris McKibbin

basically they dumped the game so they could focus development on StarTrek Online
- I understand why they did it, but that decision is going to haunt them as much as any failed mmo launch

their PR statement reminds me of Microsoft and Mythica's cancellation, from Feb 2004
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living ... ine_realm/

Microsoft abandoned Mythica last week, even before the game was officially launched. "We were looking at the . . . market and really determined that we couldn't be competitive," said Microsoft spokeswoman Genevieve Waldman.

[Fallakin Kuvari]

needs more Hellgate: London news.

[Bahd Zoolander]

They didn't just willingly dump it to focus on Star Trek Online.

Their funding was cut, so they laid off ~35 people without severance pay and moved whoever was left to Star Trek Online which is being funded from a separate source. I wouldn't be shocked if they go belly soon unless they keep STO completely on schedule.