Copernicus / 38Studios

[Cfullard]

I put a lot of hope in World of warcraft : Cataclysm and SW:TOR.. I was let down hard. I will wait and see before I get hyped up because everything has been such a huge letdown to me. In the meantime I will stay right here and enjoy nostalgia on red and see what the reviews say.

[batkiller]

It's all over, the staff have been let go. Many of them have already found new jobs with Trion and other companies who were looking for good talent. It will be interesting to see if the game gets sold now.

[Lagaidh]

Yeah, I'd found a niche in WoW too until Cataclysm. Just killed it for me personally. I don't like logging in to find my class plays completely differently than before.

That made me check on the status of eqclassic.org. I'd been watching them for years. That led me to p99. I'm home =)

[Kevlar]

Wow, usually you hear about professional athletes getting ruined financially from too much hookers and blow. This is the first time I've seen one go belly up from too much video gaming. Kurt should have just stuck to a nice eqemu server and he would still have his millions. Personally I would have just spent it on hookers and blow.

[batkiller]

I reeeeally hope it's not true that he lost all his money, that would be so sad. But what is even more heartbreaking, is that I just saw a bunch of posts from various (former) staff members who are now finding/starting new jobs, and they are talking about how much they actually miss playing the game... They say that not only was the animation and music revolutionary, but the combat and various other stuff was great and it was set to be a great game.

Sad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I'm still hoping someone might buy the game and take over some time. It would be nice to see what that dream team came up with. I once beta tested a game called Gods & Heroes which was bought by another company and developed further. Hope someone can do that with this.

[gloine36]

I think this is a prime example of a great idea clashing with realistic expectations. The three primary owners were supposed to be R.A. Salvatore, Schilling, and Todd McFarlane. I'm wondering as just who put up what amounts of money for this project. Todd probably had enough dough to finance the creation of two of these games alone.

This just shows that creating the super incredible next decades tech RAM pushing game is hideously expensive. I've stated in another post what I think would work in making a very good game, but not a cutting edge of technology game. Content is King!

I really do hope a rescue is found for this game though. If not, watch for it to be bought for a pittance by someone who might rush it out.

[Alkorin]

Originally Posted by gloine36 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I really do hope a rescue is found for this game though. If not, watch for it to be bought for a pittance by someone who might rush it out.

I certainly hope SOE doesn't buy it. Vanguard, anyone?

[batkiller]

Hehe yeah it would probably be better off dead than in SoE's hands.

[Faywind]

Pretty sure I just heard that 38 Studios went under and they laid off all of their employees.... le sigh.

I guess I will be sticking with P99 for longer than I thought! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[hdawg06]

Meh. Not a big deal for me because Schilling was a hypocritical douche.