Jumpgate Vaporware?!

[Z^^]

Their website happens nothing, and no dark prophecy beta either cry! Give new space game plz

 

[Ctuchik]

i'm starting to doubt it myself

i was so hoping that they would release more news now after they got done with the overhaul :/

 

[Ctuchik]

Jumpgate Evolution still alive and kicking - Massively

That producer update looked really depressing.

October Developer Update

 

[svartalf]

It seems that big companies are pulling out of exciting innovative long-term projects in favour of bullshit yearly sports franchises and car games. FFS.

 

[Ormorof]

damn, i did some alpha testing on this and it looked incredible, felt like a cross between Eve and Freelancer

 

[Lethul]

damn, i did some alpha testing on this and it looked incredible, felt like a cross between Eve and Freelancer

Sad, sounds like it was what I was hoping for. Love elite/freelancer kinda games

 

[Garaen]

It's now been scrapped Jumpgate Evolution - Codemasters Suing Gazillion & NetDevil - MMORPG.com

 

[Ctuchik]

to bad but i wasn't really expecting anything else.

its been so quiet from that game for so long now you just knew something was wrong.

 

[Raven]

That's a shame, it showed promise.

 

[Ctuchik]

think what made codemasters flip out were that overhaul.

iirc what netdevil had before were just a few months away from open beta and then they went and rewrote most of the entire game, pushing the release back god knows how long.

part of the cortcase is that certain "milestones" were not met.

here's a PDF of it.

http://courthousenews.com/2010/12/02/OnlineGames.pdf

 

[cHodAX]

Yep the game was only 3 months from completion before Codemasters started asking for more features, the game was delayed and delayed, then Netdevil were bought out.

Fucking annoying, what they had in alpha only needed tweaking, polishing and then launching. Instead we get feature creep, delays and then cancellation. As an orginal Jumpgate beta tester going back to 1998/1999 I am absolutely gutted.

 

[rynnor]

Bugger - another decent potential game bites the dust

I am kinda wondering if 'The Secret World' by Funcom will happen too - was supposed to be launched this year - still 11 days left...

 

[Ctuchik]

I am kinda wondering if 'The Secret World' by Funcom will happen too - was supposed to be launched this year - still 11 days left...

that game has 0 interest to me, mostly because its funcom thats developing it and i'm still having nightmares from AoC launch and the following 8 months of nothingness....

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

Its a shame what appears to have happened to JGE. From the outside, it looks like it was project managed to death.

There may have been working code, the game may even get ressurected but it looks like it has become vapourware. I feel sorry for the devs and creative people that poured their heart and soul into it.