Looks like Stargate: Alliance has been cancelled.
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It pains me to say this but unfortunately Stargate SG-1 The Alliance has been canceled.
An official statement is forth coming from MGM and/or perception in the coming days.
I would like to take this opportunity to wish all the employees of Perception all the very best for the future. Having seen the game first hand I know you guys did a fantastic job and you have every right to feel proud of what you have done.
I encourage all the Perception employees who are hidden members of this forum to let yourselves be known. You should be proud of the work you have done and I encourage all members of the forum here to congratulate the Perception crew and to wish them all the very best.
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http://www.stargate-thealliance.com/forum/showpost.php?p=220545&postcount=1
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As many of you know, for the last year and a half I've been on the development team at Perception in Sydney, working on the title "Stargate SG-1: The Alliance". Many of you also know the legal trouble and the falling out we had with ex-publisher JoWood back in August last year. Since then we have been trying to secure a new publisher for the game.
For the last couple of months, we have had several good offers from interested publishers. They only needed one thing - MGM's approval. Since MGM are the owners of the Stargate license, everything needs to be approved by them, even new publisher contracts. So, when we approached MGM about these contracts...MGM basically sat on their hands and did nothing. They didn't flat out say no, but they didn't say yes either. They expressed concerns with areas of the game. We addressed those concerns. Still no publisher approval. We showed them other offers from publishers, and that said publishers were asking for more information on the license. Did MGM provide it? No, even though contractually they were supposed to.
In the end it was pretty obvious MGM wanted the project canned for some reason that eludes everyone except them, but they didn't want to be the ones to do it. So, they just sat on their hands and did nothing for several months, to the point where Perception could not afford to keep working on the game knowing that they didn't have MGM's approval, and will probably never get it. Developers need publishers to fund the creation of a game. Without the publisher, the developer gets no income. Without MGM's approval, Perception couldn't sign a publisher. So the equation is pretty simple. There's only so long a developer can hold on financially without publisher backing.
As of about Friday the 20th of January 2006, at about 1pm Sydney time, the title "Stargate SG-1: The Alliance" was terminated for all SKU's. This also means the entire development team was "let go". I am now out of a job. After putting blood, sweat and tears into this thing for the last year and a half, and pulling some ridiculous hours on more occasions I can count, it's all for nothing.
My experience in game development is now three titles, two of which were never released, and one that was but I wasn't credited for because I left the company before they finished it. Go me!
We expect MGM to make an official press release about this sometime next week. If they won't then Perception will probably issue one...
Thanks a lot MGM, you bunch of complete prats. Go screw yourselves.
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http://www.onlinegamer-fr.com/Article67320.html
My condolences to the SG:A team. The project looked to be shaping up rather well towards the end.
It pains me to say this but unfortunately Stargate SG-1 The Alliance has been canceled.
An official statement is forth coming from MGM and/or perception in the coming days.
I would like to take this opportunity to wish all the employees of Perception all the very best for the future. Having seen the game first hand I know you guys did a fantastic job and you have every right to feel proud of what you have done.
I encourage all the Perception employees who are hidden members of this forum to let yourselves be known. You should be proud of the work you have done and I encourage all members of the forum here to congratulate the Perception crew and to wish them all the very best.
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http://www.stargate-thealliance.com/forum/showpost.php?p=220545&postcount=1
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As many of you know, for the last year and a half I've been on the development team at Perception in Sydney, working on the title "Stargate SG-1: The Alliance". Many of you also know the legal trouble and the falling out we had with ex-publisher JoWood back in August last year. Since then we have been trying to secure a new publisher for the game.
For the last couple of months, we have had several good offers from interested publishers. They only needed one thing - MGM's approval. Since MGM are the owners of the Stargate license, everything needs to be approved by them, even new publisher contracts. So, when we approached MGM about these contracts...MGM basically sat on their hands and did nothing. They didn't flat out say no, but they didn't say yes either. They expressed concerns with areas of the game. We addressed those concerns. Still no publisher approval. We showed them other offers from publishers, and that said publishers were asking for more information on the license. Did MGM provide it? No, even though contractually they were supposed to.
In the end it was pretty obvious MGM wanted the project canned for some reason that eludes everyone except them, but they didn't want to be the ones to do it. So, they just sat on their hands and did nothing for several months, to the point where Perception could not afford to keep working on the game knowing that they didn't have MGM's approval, and will probably never get it. Developers need publishers to fund the creation of a game. Without the publisher, the developer gets no income. Without MGM's approval, Perception couldn't sign a publisher. So the equation is pretty simple. There's only so long a developer can hold on financially without publisher backing.
As of about Friday the 20th of January 2006, at about 1pm Sydney time, the title "Stargate SG-1: The Alliance" was terminated for all SKU's. This also means the entire development team was "let go". I am now out of a job. After putting blood, sweat and tears into this thing for the last year and a half, and pulling some ridiculous hours on more occasions I can count, it's all for nothing.
My experience in game development is now three titles, two of which were never released, and one that was but I wasn't credited for because I left the company before they finished it. Go me!
We expect MGM to make an official press release about this sometime next week. If they won't then Perception will probably issue one...
Thanks a lot MGM, you bunch of complete prats. Go screw yourselves.
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http://www.onlinegamer-fr.com/Article67320.html
My condolences to the SG:A team. The project looked to be shaping up rather well towards the end.
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Your right though, there are very few Australian game companies left.
-R
This also means the entire development team was "let go". I am now out of a job. After putting blood, sweat and tears into this thing for the last year and a half, and pulling some ridiculous hours on more occasions I can count, it's all for nothing.
My experience in game development is now three titles, two of which were never released, and one that was but I wasn't credited for because I left the company before they finished it. Go me!
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Sounds like a shitty situation. Go game industry!
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