Rumor: 21 Days without Pay for Stargate Worlds devs

Ethec · 12-04-2008, 01:35 PM

While it's not exactly a fresh rumor, a two-word website ostensibly reporting how long it's been since CME developers have been paid is:

Days-since-Cheyenne-Mountain-Employees-Have-Been-Paid.com

We have what little info we've been able to dig up here, and will post more when we know more.

Metal · 12-04-2008, 02:05 PM

First sign of the company going downhill and tbh im glad i don't like the way Stargate worlds is turning out alot needs to be done to make me want to play it.

subgenius5150 · 12-04-2008, 02:08 PM

possibly one of the greatest ideas for a game and they could be shut down for lack of funds.... and not only that they are so close to a finished starting product... They should go public on their stocks and let the die hards buy into to help. I definitely would buy a few shares

Martuk · 12-04-2008, 02:40 PM

Hopefully this will work out in the long run. I for one am looking forward to an MMOG of Stargate filled lore.

Savanja · 12-04-2008, 02:47 PM

Nooo!!!

It seems this happens to a lot of MMOGs and it's really too bad. There are so many good ideas that go unfinished due to lack of funds.

I hope they get something worked out, but I imagine those devs can't live like that for very long and if everyone jumps ship...

bctrainers · 12-04-2008, 07:04 PM

While I do moderate the Stargate Worlds forums, please do not mistake me as an employee of CME or FireSky or SGW - as I am not. I volunteer my time to the forums to moderate.

Anyhow, I feel as if this website in question is just to spur drama. Look as the domain creation date here:

Quote:

Creation date: 03 Dec 2008 17:28:17
Expiration date: 03 Dec 2009 17:28:17

Seems a bit weird if you ask me. Created yesterday, makes news today. hmmm...

Nice forum bug... You are only allowed to post URLs once you have at least 5 posts. Removing a link then makes you wait 30 or so seconds on retry.

RipperMcGee · 12-04-2008, 08:43 PM

/sadface

I was invited into the friends and family beta, but wasn't able to participate due to other obligations. Now that I have more time to adequately devote to beta testing, I'm not in the closed beta.

/bummer

Ethec · 12-04-2008, 09:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bctrainers

Seems a bit weird if you ask me. Created yesterday, makes news today. hmmm...

Nice forum bug... You are only allowed to post URLs once you have at least 5 posts. Removing a link then makes you wait 30 or so seconds on retry.

Links travel fast, and there's a feeding frenzy for news that goes a little deeper than the usual PR rollout, believe you me. Still, it's no secret that CME is having serious cash flow problems - they say as much in their official statement.

Still, I don't believe this is sensationalism at its worst and I'll stand by our decision to run it. We made good faith efforts to call CME before the story ran and got nothing but voicemail at every number we had.

I don't know what the story is, but imagine if you will that the story goes something like this: CME's investors aren't willing to sell off their down stocks to cover their obligations. If that's the story, maybe some bad press will drive them to loosen up and pay people what they owe them.

As a side note - the five post rule is in place to make ad spammers show themselves before they do the dirty dirty. I'm not sure why edits take so long to appear, but I'll see if there's anything tech can do to speed things up.

Hena · 12-04-2008, 10:15 PM

Part of the problem is that they used some of their initial seed money from SGW to fund 2 other studios that have as yet not produced anything.

Someone got overzealous.

I heard a rumor that the employees got paid today! Sadly, it was apparently only a fraction of their normal paychecks, but I guess technically that 21 day countdown is now over. This has been happening repeatedly for months. 'Tis a shame, they had/have a lot of good talent over there.

Lets all hope they get paid in full before Christmas.

IceHeart · 12-05-2008, 12:55 AM

Wasn't this game suppose to ship a year or two ago? I have been a huge Stargate fan, and when I first heard this game was scheduled to release a couple years ago, I was really looking forward to it.
I understand that delays happen, but if this game is ever released, maybe they could re-title it to StarGates Dis-Continuim, or StarGates Light, as I am sure it will only be a shadow of what it was originally invisioned to be.