Stargate Worlds dev sued for unpaid bills

By Oli Welsh Published 17 March, 2009

Another blow for licensed MMO.

Ten Ton Hammer reports that Stargate Worlds developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment is being sued for not paying bills from a supplier.

IO Capital Princess, a data centre firm according to the report, is suing Cheyenne for an "unpaid open account".

Cheyenne last hit the headlines when a website appeared counting the days since some of its staff had last been paid. The site's still active, and now stands at 124 days and counting.

"Like many start ups, we face the same cash-flow issues that all pre-revenue companies face," Cheyenne said in a statement at the time. "We have maintained a core of dedicated investors, but the new economic realities are forcing us to seek out additional sources of funding and that's what we're doing."

Work on the PC MMO spin-off from the Stargate TV series and movie is still going ahead, according to the developer. You can read more about it at the Stargate Worlds gamepage.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • DFawkes #1 3 years ago

    Shame, the game has potential and I wouldn't like to see a second Stargate game go under.

  • VicViper #2 3 years ago

    Well Magic 8 ball of game futures, does this mean that Stargate Worlds is screwed?

    *shake* *shake*

    "All signs point to Yes"

    I wanted to this to succeed, a Stargate game MMO makes prefect sense given the jumping to different worlds (instances) etc ah well guess I'll wait and see

  • Spekingur #3 3 years ago

    Even if it goes under someone might take up the license. This will be one of the games competing with Star Trek online and Eve Online (I wish I could say Firefly Online as well).

  • Xerx3s #4 3 years ago

    Fuck that. Farscape online! \0'/

  • viper_h #5 3 years ago

    Online Online!

  • ZuluHero #6 3 years ago

    i can't believe people would still carry on working for 124 days without pay. I mean loyalty to a company is one thing, but surely that would tell most sane people which way the land is lying?

  • the_mtfr #7 3 years ago

    Hell no! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

  • Sunyavadin #8 3 years ago

    What gets me is, they DELIBERATELY screwed over the last company to license this franchise for a game, and prevented them from bringing it to market so that they could pass it over to THIS company, who look set to go bust now.

    GREAT JOB.

  • levitate #9 3 years ago

    I couldn't care less. Bring on Farscape Online!

  • Spekingur #10 3 years ago

    Farscape? Yes, I could agree. Or Andromeda. Or Babylon 5. Battlestar bloody-Galactica Online.
    Fifth Element Online? ID4 Online? Yes. YES!

  • the_mtfr #11 3 years ago

    Because you list those licenses, it doesn't also mean the corresponding games will suddenly appear. Some company will have to start producing it. Producing it will be the same process this Stargate game went through. WHICH HAPPENS TO BE PRONE TO BANKRUPTCY. So wtf dudes. Yeah thanks, you said "bring on Farscape" and you solved this entire class of problems. Sheesh.

  • vane101 #12 3 years ago

    I can see this ending up with SOE. They need a big new space game what with Star Wars, Star Trek and Jumpgate games all imminent.