Dragon Empires Canceled

[Gamah]

Sep 3rd 2004, 13:22 GMT
Dragon Empires development ceased due to technical issues
Codemasters has taken the decision to cancel further development of Dragon Empires, the company’s massively multiplayer online role playing project.



Dragon Empires received incredible support from its online community and won acclaim from PC and online media while in development. However, technical issues have resulted in the project’s discontinuation.



Many of the game’s development team, including programmers and artists, are being transferred to Codemasters’ internal development studios to work on current and future titles.



The decision to close Dragon Empires’ development does not impact on Codemasters’ long-term ambitions in the massively multiplayer online gaming market and the company remains very active in evaluating future opportunities.



The Dragon Empires website and its popular community forums will remain live at www.codemasters.com/dragonempires for the immediate future

http://www.codemasters.com/dragonempires/index.php?id=510

 

[old.Osy]

another one bites the dust...

 

[Escape]

It was looking good too. Like what Shadowbane should've been :/

 

[Fafnir]

Just stupid.

 

[Smurflord]

Natural Selection if you ask me.
They whipped all the hype and community interest well over a year ago, but then waited far far too long to deliver anything. They missed their chance and paid the price.

 

[Conchabar]

im happy another game i wanted to play which i didnt want to play ^^

 

[Vepo]

Shame really they did have a good MMORPG in the making.
I have a feeling there will be more MMORPG's to follow in the footsteps of Ultima X: Odyssey and Dragon Empires.

 

[cHodAX]

Shame really they did have a good MMORPG in the making.
I have a feeling there will be more MMORPG's to follow in the footsteps of Ultima X: Odyssey and Dragon Empires.

Agreed, Dark and Light will probably be next sadly Another game that doesn't seem to have moved on in over a year. All that work wasted, Dragon Empires looked like it could be a winner as well

 

[Lumikki]

DE looked very promising but I just knew it would never actually go live. Just way too many fantasy genre mmorpg's coming out, the competition would have been too hard to really make profit.

Sad thing

 

[Ethiraseth]

Saves me money , won't have to try it.

 

[Matchstick Man]

Shame, praying MOE doesn't go the same way now.

 

[Lumikki]

Middle Eearth Online and D&D Online will be next followed by Matrix Online. And don't forget Dark & Light.

I'm just praying that Darkfall Online won't be cancelled, looking forward to that.

 

[Kalgarn]

sucks,was looking forward to that one but saw it comming for a while now.

 

[sloand]

OMG u know what this means ....We all gonna be playing DAOC till we are old folks :0

 

[Tilda]

That sucks
I truly hope D&L and MEOnline arnt canceled

Tilda

 

[tRoG]

Bugger

Please, don't let WoW suck *pray*

 

[Cyfr]

*join in tRoG's prayers.. and pray for fonz to come back! I miss him *

 

[tRoG]

*join in tRoG's prayers.. and pray for fonz to come back! I miss him *

You live near him iirc, go forth and plaster all lamposts with "We crave for thee, Fonzeh!" posters.

 

[Deacan]

*join in tRoG's prayers.. and pray for fonz to come back! I miss him *

Fonz will never return, he on a Island surrounded by women now i bet.

 

[Morchaoron]

according to the official community manager:

"They probably hit some sort of wall in server coding, meaning they'll have to do everything from scratch again."

looks like all the poor members of the community are in grief....

 

[cHodAX]

One game that won't be cancelled is Guildwars, only 8 weeks till public beta opens 3 days a month and they have a business model that could actually change the way MMORPG's are paid for in the future