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Gods and Heroes Canceled
WarCry was one of the first with the news that Perpetual Entertainment's years-in-the-making MMOG Gods and Heroes is now canceled. The title was due out in August, and was pushed back after changes to the animation system were put into place. Now on 'indefinite hold', it appears a game just weeks or months away from release will never see commercial production. From the article: "Our source tells us that the majority of the Gods and Heroes development team has been let go as part of the move, which comes only a few weeks after they had downsized and pushed back the release date. The Star Trek Online team, those who worked on the Perpetual Platform (which was recently licensed to BioWare) and a small number of people from the Gods and Heroes team will be remain with the company." For a great deal more usefully cynical commentary, F13 (as always) has us covered.
This is interesting, because just a few minutes ago I read that this game was going to be delayed until 2008; not canceled.
Either way, it sounds like they don't care enough about the game or the staffing for it to maintain it in the long run. Even if it was finally released, I would not risk my time and money in the investment as they probably would not provide enough resources to keep the game and community running properly.
Oh well . . . still no decent MMORPG on the horizon. I guess we'll have to wait until 2009 for something to pop up.
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