TV man on Stargate MMO: "It's a shame"

By Oli Welsh Published 6 April, 2009

Fate of licensed MMO unknown to TV team.

An executive producer of the Stargate TV series has cast serious doubt on the future of the licensed Stargate Worlds MMO, saying that its failure to appear is "a terrible shame".

Brad Wright, who also worked as creative consultant on the game, was asked what the game's status was by the GateWorld fansite.

"We don't know," he said. "It's a shame. If it doesn't happen - and, let's be honest, it should be happening now if it was happening - it's a shame. It's a terrible shame."

Stargate Worlds was in production at a new studio, Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, funded by a new publisher, FireSky. Both companies were created specifically to undertake this project.

"They had an opportunity and they got our support, and they obviously had significant funding, and it didn't happen," said Wright.

"It's kind of a drag for the fans and the time that we invested - what little of it there really was, in comparison to what they did - was still a shame that it was wasted, because it should have happened."

Stargate Worlds is reportedly still in development, but Cheyenne has had funding problems, being sued for unpaid bills and attacked for not paying its staff. At least the "days since Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment employees have been paid" website has now been taken offline.

"Like many start ups, we face the same cash-flow issues that all pre-revenue companies face," the developer said late last year, confirming that it was seeking additional funding.

Wright's pessimism may be premature, but his lack of awareness of the current state of the game will be troubling to Stargate fans. Check out the Stargate Worlds gamepage for more information.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • mingster #1 3 years ago

    Its weird i thought i saw people playing this in a film i watched.

  • Tiberianus #2 3 years ago

    Oh god dammit.

    I was pissed when Jowood canned the fps shooter! And although the screens for this were pretty weird and confusing, I still wanted to log in to the beast.

  • MBar #3 3 years ago

    troubling to Stargate fans

    Yes. Yes, it is.

    The one MMO is was properly looking forward to. I was so going to a roll a Jaffa called M'bar.

    *crosses fingers that it still will happen*

  • Svecke #4 3 years ago

    The world needs more Stargate games, period. But I really wanted this MMO to come out this year...

  • Tiberianus #5 3 years ago

    On the cheyenne mountain forums it still sounds like they are developing it...

    *Crosses fingers*

  • Sunyavadin #6 3 years ago

    I was really annoyed when they screwed over the developer who were working on a previous game, so they could start this one.
    Now I'm even MORE pissed off with them for messing this up, when we could have had a finished game back in 2007 if they'd not messed about with this.


    But screw it, stargate's over. Dead and buried. They killed it off a long time ago and this new, uninspired, unoriginal series they're working on should guarantee that after it gets cancelled halfway in, we'll never see the stargate franchise again until they pull a Galactica and do a remake 20 years from now.

  • quantumsheep #7 3 years ago

    @mingster: If I recall it was a horror film... :)

    Shame really - this showed some promise.
    Edited by 1 at 06/04/09 @ 13:18

  • WrongShui #8 3 years ago

    @Mingster Oh god, you didn't see Wargames 2 did you?

    You poor bastard, I feel your pain.

  • mingster #9 3 years ago

    Haha o yeah that was it Wargames 2!
    So how come it looked playable on that?

  • Baranga #10 3 years ago

    How about a proper Stargate movie, by Emmerich?

  • mingster #11 3 years ago

    btw my favourite stargate episode was the 'groundhog day' remake and they where using the stargate as a golf driving range..
    blasting million mile drives into it!

  • RamblinSydRumpo #12 3 years ago

    Hooray. The film was a steaming pile of excrement, and the Stargate TV phenomenon is one of the great universal mysteries (like Bones) where a wank TV series seems to get renewed ad nauseum despite being utter bollocks. (I still don't understand wtf Stephen Fry was doing - must have been a ginormous paycheck).
    Edited by 1 at 06/04/09 @ 15:20